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BOOK YOUR TICKETS FOR THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY BUXTON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL:
by returning this form with the necessary payment and a stamped addressed envelope (if you wish the tickets to be returned to you) to Festival Box Office, Buxton International Festival, 3 The Square, Buxton SK17 6AZ online at www.buxtonfestival.co.uk
by phone on 01298 72190 For the latter two options, you will need your priority booking code, found underneath your address.
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‘The operas in this 40th anniversary season transport us to all the corners of the earth - from political intrigue in Ancient Rome, to gossip in the coffee houses of Georgian England to duels at dawn in Pushkin’s Russia, to mysterious valleys in Africa and even up to the dizzy heights of Mount Olympus. The concert series features some of the finest soloists, ensembles and orchestras in Europe, some returning, some bringing their artistry to Buxton for the first time. We welcome Peter Donohoe as our Artist in Residence, the singers from Cape Town Opera, and the BBC Philharmonic, who will be performing in the newly refurbished Octagon.’ – Adrian Kelly, Artistic Director
Between now and the Festival a number of Friends events have been organised. Of particular interest and relevance will be the introduction to the highlights of this year’s world premiere of Georgiana in the entirely appropriate and delightful setting of Chatsworth House and, of course, our popular Opera Study Day with specialist presentations on all this year’s operas. Information and booking for these and other events is available on the Friends pages of the Festival website. Bookings for the Friends Festival Dinner can be made on the enclosed booking form; and look out for more news about our two ‘Friends Wednesdays’ during the Festival itself. We very much look forward to meeting you in the summer and I we encourage you to bring new friends to discover the delights that Buxton has to offer over the Festival period. Yours sincerely,
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We have a bumper Festival programme planned for our 40th Anniversary this summer. Adrian Kelly, our new Artistic Director, and Victoria Dawson, our Book Organizer, have gone to extraordinary lengths to put together an opera/music programme and a book series that is guaranteed to offer something for everyone.
‘This Festival (capital F) has for 40 years put Buxton in Derbyshire’s Peak District on the operatic world map. (A feat to be celebrated by Ian Kershaw in conversation with Matthew Parris.) I now seek to do the same for all things literary. We will look at themes including Utopia/ Dystopia, ‘the rural idyll’, our national parks, and the birth of modernism. In an age of ecological and political turmoil across the globe, I hope we can provide historical context to remind us of pitfalls, to share new ideas to help us to navigate our future, and to provide entertainment and delight to our committed and appreciative audience. Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan, economist Lord Skidelsky and forager John Wright join Buxton favourites Lucy Worsley, Melvyn Bragg and Max Hastings plus many, many more in a fortnight of informative yet accessible debate.’ – Victoria Dawson, Book Organiser
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OPERA
Preferred Date
Preferred Seats
Alternative Date
Alternative Seats
No of tickets
Price of preferred seats
TOTAL
July
Price
Anna Beer
18
£12
Martin Moore
18
£12
£12
Perspectives: The future of our political parties
19
£15
7
£15
Nick Robinson
19
£12
Amanda Foreman
7
£15
Melissa Harrison & Tim Pears
19
£15
Mill Songs & Chamber Music
7
£15
David Cannadine
19
£12
Lucy Worsley
7
£25
Literary Salon: Naoko Abe
19
£20
Gillian Moore
8
£12
Melvyn Bragg
20
£12
Sat 13
Alan Powers
8
£12
Jane Glover
20
£12
9
£15
John Lanchester
20
£12
Sat 20
Perspectives: The future of the economy Robert Skidelsky
9
£12
Diarmaid MacCulloch
9
£12
Fergus Butler-Gallie
9
£12
Literary Salon: Alan Powers on Enid Marx
9
£20
BIF Podcast
10
£12
Ian Kershaw
10
£12
Robin Hanbury-Tenison
10
£12
Peter Collinge
10
£12
10
Eugene Onegin Georgiana Lucio Papirio Dittatore Orpheus in the Underworld Orphans of Koombu OPERA SUB-TOTAL
O P E R A TA L K S Sat 6
Mon 8
Sun 14
Tues 9
Mon 15
Wed 10
Tues 16
Wed 17
Thurs 11
Fri 12
Thurs 18
Fri 19
OPERA TALKS SUB-TOTAL
MUSIC New Voices Buxton Festival Foundation Concert
July
Price
No of tickets
TOTAL
July
Price
5
£15, £20, £25, £40, £50, £60, £65
Alistair McGowan
14
£20, £25, £35, £40
VOCES 8
14
£25
No of tickets
July
Price
Perspectives: Is digitalisation killing classical music?
6
£15
Mark Cocker & Friends
6
£15
Mark Wigglesworth
6
Sarah Ward & Friends
BOOKS
TOTAL
Walk: How Buxton helped build the 20th Century
8
£10
Walk: Buxton’s ghost theatres
9/ 19
£10
Walk: Victorian splendour
11/ 16
£10
Walk: Buxton on the Home Front
12/ 18
£10
£20
Walk: Picking up ideas on foraging
16/ 17
£10
Cookery: Max Fischer
10
£12
Cookery: Saliha Mahmood Ahmed
12
£12
Cookery: John Wright
17
£12
£15
In the Spotlight: Chethams
15
£15
Imogen Cooper
6
£30
15
£15
Out of Africa (Haddon Hall)
6
£35, £55
Scenes from an Opera: Eugene Onegin
Literary Salon: Peter Moore – Samuel Johnson
£25
£30
Perspectives: Brexit Britain – what next?
£15
7
15
11
Improviso
Donohoe, Margulis & Nystrom
Lizzie Ball
7
£25
Savitri Grier & Yundu Wang
16
£25
Max Adams
11
£12
Grace Notes (Haddon Hall)
7
£35, £55
Scenes from an Opera: Lucio Papirio Dittatore
16
£15
Dorian Lynskey
11
£12
Zorada Temmingh
7
£20
Peter Donohoe
16
£30
Richard King
11
£12
Philip Moore & Huw Watkins
8
£25
The English Concert
16
£30
Gillian Williamson
11
£12
BIF Company Recitals
8/ 14
£20
Chris Ingham Quartet
16
£15, £25
Kate Humble
11
£25
Castalian String Quartet
8
£20
Frith Piano Quartet
17
£25
Peter Hennessy
12
£12
Cape Town Opera
8
£25
17
£15
12
£12
Matilda Lloyd & Richard Gowers
9
£20
Scenes from an Opera: Georgiana
Ruth Larsen Tristram Hunt & Julian Glover
12
£15
Alessandro Fisher & Ashok Gupta
9
£25
La Serenissima
17
£30
12
£20
National Youth Jazz Orchestra
17
£25
Literary Salon: Adrian Kelly & Michael Williams
Kabantu
9
£15, £25
Victoria String Quartet
18
£25
Jacqueline Riding
13
£12
In the Spotlight: RNCM
10
£15
18
£30
Max Hastings
13
£12
Peter Donohoe
10
£30
Roderick Williams & Iain Burnside
Venki Ramakrishnan
13
£13
Jason Singh
10
£15, £25
The Julian Bliss Septet
18
£20, £25, £35, £40
Literary Salon: Tom Service – Music as Alchemy
13
£20
Bethan Langford & Keval Shah
11
£25
Ex Cathedra Consort
18
£25
Tom Service
14
£12
Peter Donohoe & Alissa Margulis
11
£30
Bella Hardy
18
£15, £25
Jenny Waldman
15
£12
Dinner & Musical Theatre
11
£25
Victoria String Quartet
19
£25
Sophie Thérèse Ambler
15
£12
BBC Philharmonic
11
£10, £20, £25, £35
Garry Magee & Tim Lole
19
£25
Simon Winder
16
£12
Soraya Mafi & Adrian Kelly
12
£25
A Good Reed?
19
£25
Anna Pasternak
16
£12
La Vaghezza
12
£30
Victoria String Quartet
20
£25
17
£15
In the Spotlight: University of Derby
12
£15
Carnival of the Animals
20
£5, £15, £37.50
Perspectives: Gender Stereotypes Christopher Somerville
17
£12
Jonathan Radford & Ashley Fripp 13
£25
Dominic Alldis Trio
20
£25
17
£20
Clare Hammond
£30
Brodsky Quartet
21
£30
Literary Salon: Forgotten Women of Classical Music Perspectives: Science and AI
18
£15
Clare Hammond masterclass
14
£10
No of tickets
TOTAL
BOOKS SUB-TOTAL
Price
6
MUSIC SUB-TOTAL
TOTAL
July
In the Spotlight: RNCM
14
No of tickets
EXPERIENCES
No of tickets
TOTAL
EXPERIENCES SUB-TOTAL
F R IE N D S E V E N T S Date
Price
Opera Study Day
21 May
£45
Friends’ Dinner
14 July
£35
No of tickets
FRIENDS EVENTS SUB-TOTAL
F E STIVAL P R OG RA M M E Festival Programme (discounted price booked before 1 June) FESTIVAL PROGRAMME SUB-TOTAL
D ON ATION Donation DONATION SUB-TOTAL
GRAND TOTAL
£12
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