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This page lists all the scheduled events at Buxton Opera House. If you would like to see all the shows between specific dates in the future then please select your preferred start and end date. Alternatively, you may filter by category.
Duncan Campbell-Smith - Masters of the Post
11 July 2012 10:30 AM
Pavilion Arts Centre
Buxton Festival 2012
In charting the extraordinary story of the Royal Mail from Tudor times, Duncan Campbell-Smith recounts a series of remarkable tales. We learn how postal engineers built the first programmable computer for the wartime code-breakers of Bletchley Park and how the Royal Mail managed to continue delivering post to the front lines during two World Wars, but also how it failed to prevent the Great Train Robbery of 1963. He brings to life many of the dominant personalities in the Royal Mail’s history – from Rowland Hill, who with the Penny Post set the great Victorian expansion on its way, to Tom Jackson who led the postal workers’ biggest union through 15 stormy years. And he shows that today’s debate over the future of the Royal Mail is just the latest chapter in a centuries-old conflict between its roles raising revenue and serving the public. Read more about this event … or
A French Affair
11 July 2012 12:00 PM
St John's Church
Buxton Festival 2012
Paul Edmund-Davies flute
Stephen Barlow piano Read more about this event … or
James and the Giant Peach
11 July 2012 1:30 PM
Pavilion Arts Centre
Buxton Festival 2012
The classic Dahl story of James, the peach and his band of giant insect friends is told by 100 local children and young people, working with the Festival’s professional musicians and creative team. A heart-warming tale for all the family. Read more about this event … or
L’Olimpiade
11 July 2012 1:45 PM
Buxton Opera House
Buxton Festival 2012
Dramma per musica in three acts
Libretto by Pietro Metastasio, sung in Italian, with English side-titles
Set amidst the action of the Ancient Greek Olympics, this is a story of thwarted love, amorous rivalry and mistaken identities, set to some of Vivaldi’s most dramatic music. As two great friends enter the overall contest for top athlete, little do they realise that they will also be competing for the hand of the same woman… Read more about this event … or
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