'A positive confectioner’s shop of ceramic tiles, coloured glass and swirling gilt': the interior of Frank Matcham's Buxton Opera House Temistocle Solera based his libretto on Schiller’s The Maid of ...

The Buxton Festival aims to keep you going from breakfast to bedtime (late) with nine operas, a programme of high-class music, a strong literary series bringing 30 well-known authors to flog their ...

An international festival which hosts some of the biggest productions and names in opera also boasts one of the most picturesque settings in the country, writes Mavis Kirkham. Did you know with a ...

You are in: Derby > In Pictures > 360 Panoramas > Buxton > Outside the Buxton Opera House This is the view outside the Buxton Opera House. The building was refurbished in 2001 and features gold leaf ...

Buxton's famous dome has a span that is greater than that of St Paul's Cathedral. The University of Derby opens the doors to its stunning new £20m Devonshire Royal Campus in Buxton. Look inside the ...

Buxton International Festival, the Peak District's star-studded annual celebration of opera, music, jazz and books will be taking place from Thursday, July 4 until Sunday, July 21, 2024. The ...

Commenting, artistic director Adrian Kelly said: “In true Buxton style, we present an ambitious line-up of six productions for 2026. Across 17 days, our operas encompass a range of centuries, styles, ...

Based on an earlier French translation of Shakespeare, Ambroise Thomas’ 1868 French grand opera was a long-term success in his native country while running into chauvinistic criticism in England due ...

Buxton, a quaint town on the edge of the Peak District, is known for more than just its famous bottled water. It's a place where you can enjoy opera in a cave, visit a hotel where Mary Queen of Scots ...

Here to spread the Christmas magic once again is Niamh Forster as Elf, who starred as Libby in last year’s production of Rumpelstiltskin. Niamh brings previous stage credits from BIRDIE (Salford Arts ...

No-one would call Verdi’s fifth opera perfect, but Buxton’s singers, led by Nadine Benjamin as heroine Elvira, spin straw into gold Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, ...

If Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni or Cosi fan tutte are operatic mansions, then The Impresario is a lean-to; more opera-adjacent than opera itself. Even the composer called this ...