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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.
A Bed Among The Lentils
13 July 2012 7:30 PM
United Reformed Church - Green Room
Buxton Festival Fringe 2012
Susan is a woman let down by life and God. Her secret fondness for altar wine and a young Indian grocer with good legs and teeth relieves the tedium of days among sanctimonious parish matrons where flower arranging ranks as a competitive sport … From Alan Bennett’s masterpiece Talking Heads. Read more about this event … or
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Poole’s Cavern
13 July 2012 8:30 PM
Poole's Cavern
Buxton Festival Fringe 2012
Following last year’s award winning, sell-out hit Macbeth, Butterfly return, collaborating with renowned composer Helen Chadwick. A unique hour-long version of Shakespeare’s much loved comedy in an extraordinary setting. Enter an underground Fairie Kingdom where harmonies resonate through the rocks, magic lights up the dark and mischief reigns supreme! Read more about this event … or
Fiona MacCarthy - Edward Burne-Jones and the Art of Love
13 July 2012 10:00 PM
Pavilion Arts Centre
Buxton Festival 2012
Edward Burne-Jones was the most admired British artist of his generation. His work is all around us; the angels on our Christmas cards, the stained glass in our churches, the great paintings in our galleries. The renowned biographer Fiona MacCarthy explores his art and life; his battle against vicious public hostility, the romantic susceptibility to female beauty that would inspire his art and ruin his marriage, his ill health and depressive sensibility and the devastating rift with his great friend and collaborator William Morris as their views on art and politics diverged. Read more about this event … or
Seven Saints Choir
13 July 2012 10:00 PM
St John's Church
Buxton Festival 2012
conducted by Snejana Grigorova
The choir of the church Sveti Sedmochislenitchi (The Seven Saints) has a long tradition of unaccompanied performance. The current choir of 16 from Sofia specialises in some of the finest old orthodox chants, almost unknown to UK audiences. These atmospheric works by anonymous Russian and Bulgarian composers of the fifteenth century are supplemented with masterworks of the great Renaissance tradition. Read more about this event … or
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