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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.
The Sopranos
23 March 7:30 PM
Direct from their sell-out European tour The Sopranos premier the UK. Eight talented ladies enthral, captivate and beguile the audience with timeless classics from the world of opera to Broadway, paying homage to the greatest divas the world has ever seen: from Shirley Bassey to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland to Celine Dion. This makes for a glittering evening of everyone’s favourites not to be missed.
The Sopranos have the audience eating out of their hands with their spine-tingling harmonies and beautifully crafted arrangements, backed by a virtuoso band including a stunningly sassy string quartet. This lavish production performs some of the best-loved and instantly recognisable music of all time in its own, inimitable and evocative style: from hushed, intimate tones to full-throttle rock, the spine-tingling vocals unite with breath-taking harmonies for an evening full of glitz, glamour and oodles of personality. This world-class show takes the audience on an ever-evolving musical journey and delights all ages with unstoppable music. Read more about this event … or
Don Pasquale
15 April 7:30 PM
This is a comedy with zest, cream, and an Italian accent – think zabaglione! – in a new production directed by William Oldroyd, with Dominic Wheeler conducting.
Keel Watson plays Don Pasquale, a stubborn, competitive, old batchelor – and here a tyrannic orchestra conductor – who wants to procure a young wife. He seems set to steal from his nephew a beautiful, and apparently submissive bride – but his clumsy wooing turns to painful woe when she reveals her own mind.
To see a video of James Conway discussing the opera, click here.
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The Marriage of Figaro
16 April 7:30 PM
An elegant, period costume production of one of the world’s most popular operas, containing some of Mozart’s most beautiful and familiar music.
The plot (based on Beaumarchais’ controversial play) traces the intrigues of one day at the house of Count Almaviva. Figaro is to marry Susanna, (a maid, but also a ‘favourite’ of the Count – and opera’s most charming heroine, here played by Eliana Praetorian and Claire Ormshaw), but he must overcome every obstacle put in his way by the Count and his cronies, before he can be united finally with his bride.
To see a video of James Conway discussing the opera, click here.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
17 April 7:30 PM
First produced in 2004, ETO’s hugely successful production of the Britten/Shakespeare masterpiece returns. In a fairy-haunted wood, lovers’ knots are tangled, and strange dreams create monstrous romances. Only in a hilarious play performed by working men are all the opera’s tensions and enchantments eased. Michael Rosewell conduct’s Britten’s eerie, highly theatrical score, with a cast led by Jonathan Peter Kenny and Andrew Slater.
To see a video of James Conway discussing the opera, click here.
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