Buxton Festival 2013 brochure

A summer celebration of opera, music and literature at the heart of the beautiful Peak District

Friday 5–Sunday 21 July 2013 www.buxtonfestival.co.uk Box Office: 0845 127 2190 or 01298 72190

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A Song at Six Opera Talk Double Bill

SATURDAY 6 JULY 10am 10.30am 12 noon 12 noon 2pm 4pm 6pm 6.15pm 7.15pm 10pm

The Titian Experience Peter Conrad The Reunion Entertaining Buxton Walk Worbey & Farrell A.N. Wilson A Song at Six Opera Talk La finta giardiniera John Standing

SUNDAY 7 JULY 10am 10.30am 10.30am 10.45am 12 noon 2pm 4pm 6pm 7.15pm

The Titian Experience William Dalrymple Rachel Braddock Festival Mass Claire Jones Shining Armour Thomas Heatherwick A Song at Six Opera Gala

MONDAY 8 JULY 10.30am 12 noon 2pm 4pm 6pm 6.15pm 7.15pm 9.45pm

Sandi Toksvig Buxton Festival Young Artists The Sacconi Quartet Hannah Rothschild A Song at Six Opera Talk Double Bill Festival Friends’ Party

TUESDAY 9 JULY 10.30am 12 noon 12 noon 2pm 3pm 4pm 6pm 6.15pm 7.15pm

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The Duke of Devonshire Monsieur Gounod & Mrs Weldon The Future of Buxton’s Heritage Walk The Sacconi Quartet & Andrew Marriner Cookery: Simon Bradley Paddy Ashdown A Song at Six Opera Talk La finta giardiniera

Frances Osborne Northern Chamber Orchestra Anne Sophie Duprels & Pascal Rogé Matthew Rice Organ Recital A Song at Six Opera Talk Ottone in villa

THURSDAY 11 JULY 10.30am 12 noon 12 noon 2pm 3.15pm 4pm 6pm 6.15pm 7.15pm

Matthew Parris & Andrew Bryson James Gilchrist & Anna Tilbrook Buxton: Its Background & Beauty Walk La Serenissima Meet the Artists Artemis Cooper A Song at Six Opera Talk Double Bill

FRIDAY 12 JULY 10.30am 12 noon 2pm 3.15pm 4pm 6pm 6.15pm 7.15pm 10pm

Roy Hattersley Buxton Festival Young Artists Kate Ladner & Fiona McSherry Meet the Artists Roger Parker A Song at Six Opera Talk La finta giardiniera Alex Yellowlees

SATURDAY 13 JULY 10am 10.30am 12 noon 3.15pm 4pm 6.15pm 7.15pm 10pm

The Whale Nick Robinson Michael Morpurgo Meet the Artists Chris Mullin Opera Talk Ottone in villa Tango 5

The Whale Jeremy Bowen Tania Bramley Festival Mass Literary Britten Festival Friends’ Lunch The Sacconi Quartet Double Bill Paul Kildea Opera Talk Curlew River

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AC Grayling Scenes from an Opera: La finta giardiniera Buxton: Its Background & Beauty Walk Northern Chamber Orchestra John Mullan A Song at Six The Prodigal Son The Burning Fiery Furnace

TUESDAY 16 JULY 10.30am 12 noon 12 noon 2pm 3pm 4pm 6pm 6.15pm 7.15pm

Ann Widdecombe Pascal & Ami Rogé The Future of Buxton’s Heritage Walk Anne Sophie Duprels & Pascal Rogé Cookery: Joe Hunt Victoria Glendinning A Song at Six Opera Talk The Killing Flower & Eight Songs for a Mad King

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Buxton is less than an hour from Manchester by train.

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Julia Bradbury Buxton Festival Young Artists The Fibonacci Sequence Jane Gardam & Deborah Moggach Organ Recital A Song at Six Opera Talk Fortunio

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Melvyn Bragg The Fibonacci Sequence The Fibonacci Sequence Catherine Bailey & Clive Aslet A Song at Six Opera Talk La finta giardiniera

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10.30am Antonia Fraser 12 noon Scenes from an Opera: La Princesse Jaune & La Colombe 12 noon Entertaining Buxton Walk 2pm The Fibonacci Sequence 4pm Jane Ridley 6pm A Song at Six 6.15pm Opera Talk 7.15pm Fortunio 10pm The James Pearson Trio & Lizzie Ball

SATURDAY 20 JULY 10am 10.30am 12 noon 2pm 4pm 6pm 6.15pm 7.15pm 10pm

Magical Storytelling Yurt Simon Jenkins Knights of the Round Tabla Diana Moore & John Reid Derek Niemann A Song at Six Opera Talk Double Bill The James Pearson Trio & Lizzie Ball

SUNDAY 21 JULY 10am 10.30am 11.15am 12 noon 2pm 3.30pm 4pm

Magical Storytelling Yurt Barry Millington Festival Mass Buxton Festival Young Artists Poetry in the Pavilion La finta giardiniera Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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Buxton Festival Literary series is presented in association with Waterstones

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Keeping things simple is easy with our burgeoning Music Series. You’ll find scintillating programmes, justly styled great classics such as Schubert’s ‘Trout’ Quintet, Verdi’s Quartet and Poulenc’s Sextet, teasing words and music concerts on matters to intrigue every keen listener, recitals and artists all of the highest calibre. I hope you’ll consider treating yourself to a

borders, for example in music of Schumann, Poulenc, Brahms and Gounod, not to mention the specially devised and produced ‘Scenes from the Operas’ showcases which are always inventive and thrilling.

I’m proud to say that our Literary Series continues to attract authors from across the spectrum, and speakers from all walks of life. Variety, contrast and sometimes a little controversy all contribute to our aim to provide interest, charm,rigorous thinking and entertainment.

I hope you’ll find more than justification here once more to make the journey to the lovely and revitalising spa town of Buxton.

Stephen Barlow

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This year we’ve decided to help Festival-goers to see all the events we have on offer on a day-by-day basis, rather than having to jump between Opera, Music, Literary or other events to get the information you require. To aid in this, the different series have been colour-coded and you’ll kind the key at the bottom of each right hand page.

All the most up-to-date information on all Festival events can be found at the Buxton Festival website – www.buxtonfestival.co.uk

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A FESTIVAL DOUBLE BILL

This year’s Festival Double-Bill consists of two light, brisk confections which sparkle with all the wit and romance of 19th century France Conductor – Stephen Barlow, Director – Francis Matthews, Designer – Lez Brotherston

Opera House 5, 8, 11 & 20 July 7.15pm–9.45pm & 14 July 3.30pm–6pm Tickets: £15–£58

LA PRINCESSE JAUNE – CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835–1921)

LA COLOMBE – CHARLES GOUNOD (1818–1893)

An opera comique in one act

An opera comique in one act

Libretto by Louis Gallet, sung in French, with English side-titles

Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on the poem Le Faucon by Jean de la Fontaine, sung in English. Translation by Hugh Macdonald

Lena Anne Sophie Duprels Kormelis Ryan MacPherson

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A Buxton Festival Production, with the Northern Chamber Orchestra

Saint-Saëns’ satire on the 19th century fad for all things Japanese is set in the Netherlands. Léna is in love with her studious cousin, Kornélis, who in turn is obsessed by a painting of a Japanese girl he calls Ming. Drugged and transported to Japan, will Kornélis find that home is where the heart is?

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La Colombe (The Dove) is set in Florence, where Sylvie, a wealthy countess becomes jealous of a rival’s parrot, and in turn decides to acquire the prize dove belonging to the poverty-stricken Horace. Despite being in love with Sylvie, Horace’s dire financial straits have led to him deciding to roast the dove to satiate his hunger. Will the bird (and Sylvie and Horace’s hopes of romance) meet a sticky end?

Sylvie Gillian Keith

Horace Ryan MacPherson

Mazet Emma Carrington

Jean Jonathan Best

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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791)

Don Ancise Christopher Lemmings

Conductor Nicholas Kraemer

An opera buffa in three acts

Sandrina Ellie Laugharne

Director Harry Fehr

Arminda Stephanie Corley

Designer Yannis Thavoris

Libretto by Giuseppe Petrosellini. Sung in Italian, with English side-titles A Buxton Festival production, with the Northern Chamber Orchestra

Belfiore Catherine Carby

Written by Mozart at the age of 17, La finta giardiniera combines comedy and high drama in a tale of violent passions and reunited love.

A year after Count Belfiore left his lover, Marchioness Violante Onesti, for dead, she has gone into hiding, working in the mansion of the Mayor of Lagonero under the name of Sandrina. Belfiore is engaged to the Mayor’s niece, Arminda, who is jealous of her fiancé’s lingering love for Violetta. The reunion of the couple leads to a descent into madness, before sanity, forgiveness and redemption return.

Serpetta Anna Patalong Roberto Matthew Hargreaves

Opera House 6, 9, 12 & 18 July 7.15pm–10.15pm & 21 July 3.30pm–6.30pm Tickets: £15–£58

Mozart’s lively opera combines the commedia dell’arte influences of Carlo Goldoni with dramatic introspection, depicting relationships across the class divide in a foreshadowing of later, better known successes such as Così fan tutte and Le nozze di Figaro.

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Musical Director Andrew Strange

BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913–1976)

A drama per musica in three acts

Cleonilla Gillian Ramm

Director Richard Williams

A production by Mahogany Opera, with Aurora Orchestra

Caio Mhairi Lawson

Co-Director Robert Howarth

La Serenissima return to Buxton with Vivaldi’s first opera, Ottone in villa.

Emperor Otho is staying at his country villa near Rome, where he has become besotted by the flirtatious Cleonilla, despite the disapproval of her father, Decio.

She, however, is smitten by the handsome Caio Silio, whose former fiancée, Tullia, has followed him, disguised as Cleonilla’s page, Ostilio. When Cleonilla becomes attracted to ‘Ostilio’, Caio becomes jealous, before the final revelations that set everything to rights again.

La Serenissima is one of the UK’s leading historical performance ensembles. Directed by Adrian Chandler, the group specialises in the music of Antonio Vivaldi and his contemporaries. They have performed worldwide to great acclaim and in 2010 won a Gramophone Award.

Their eleventh CD, Venice by Night was released in June 2012 and includes world premiere recordings of music by Lotti, Pollarolo, Porta and Veracini alongside better known composers such as Vivaldi and Albinoni; this CD reached the top ten of the UK classical charts.

Last year they brought Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade to the Buxton Festival.

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CURLEW RIVER, THE PRODIGAL SON & THE BURNING FIERY FURNACE

Ottone Louise Poole

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CHURCH PARABLES

ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678–1741) Libretto by Dominic Lalli, after Francisco Maria Piccioli’s Messalina

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Mahogany Opera celebrates Benjamin Britten’s centenary in 2013 by presenting fully staged productions of each of his three Church Parables – Curlew River, The Burning Fiery Furnace and The Prodigal Son.

‘This is Mahogany Opera’s third production since their inception in 2003, and there is every reason to expect great things from them in the future when, like Curlew River, the production is so assured and compelling …

Director/producer Frederic Wake-Walker has pulled off quite a coup.’ – Opera Now on Curlew River 2006

The Parables are being performed as a triptych over two evenings – they have never been performed in this way, and will take the audience on a profound journey through these intense and powerful works.

Opera House 10 & 13 July 7.15pm–10pm Tickets: £15–£48

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Curlew River is based on the Japanese Noh play Sumidagawa and tells the haunting story of a mother’s search for her lost son. Britten transforms the play into an English medieval mystery play, capturing remarkable similarities between the two distant cultures. Mahogany Opera’s production takes this principal – merging East with West – as its starting point and applies it to all three parables. For Curlew River, Japanese Noh is mixed with Medieval Western iconography, for The Burning Fiery Furnace, Balinese dance drama with stained glass and for The Prodigal Son Middle Eastern sufism with Rembrandt and Bosch.

Cast James Gilchrist Lukas Jakobski Rodney Earl Clarke John McMunn Samuel Evans Douglas Nairne

Director Frederic Wake-Walker Musical Director Roger Vignoles Designer Kim Callister (after original designs

by Mara Amats) Lighting Designer Ben Payne

St John’s Church Curlew River 14 July, 9pm–10.15pm The Prodigal Son 15 July, 7pm–8.15pm The Burning Fiery Furnace 15 July, 9pm–10pm Tickets: £38 Special price for all three Church Parables £99

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THE KILLING FLOWER & EIGHT SONGS FOR A MAD KING

A production by Music Theatre Wales Music Theatre Wales , who brought the highly acclaimed Greek to Buxton in 2011, returns with a special presentation of two exceptional operatic works

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The story of Gesualdo: Composer and murderer The opera by Sciarrino: On the edge of silence The audience become eavesdroppers, caught up in the bewitching beauty and nightmare tension of hushed conversations, fraught silences and a backdrop of soft, elusive sounds … birds singing, leaves rustling, a heart beating …

The Killing Flower (Luci mie traditrici) is a contemporary Italian masterpiece which will receive its UK premiere at the Buxton Festival. For the first time, it will be sung in an English translation, by Kit Hesketh-Harvey.

Co-production with the Wales Millennium Centre.

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Opera House 16 July 7.15pm–9.30pm Tickets: £15–£48

Conductor – Michael Rafferty, Director – Michael McCarthy, Designer – Simon Banham, Lighting Designer – Ace McCarron THE KILLING FLOWER – SALVATORE SCIARRINO (1947–)

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EIGHT SONGS FOR A MAD KING – PETER MAXWELL DAVIES (1934–) Eight Songs for a Mad King is a British music theatre classic from the 1960s which remains just as powerful and shocking as it was when Sir Peter Maxwell Davies first penned it.

More than 20 years before the film and play The Madness of George III caught the public’s imagination, composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies immortalised the monarch’s descent into dementia and delusion in Eight Songs for a Mad King – a classic piece of music theatre and a disturbing and poignant portrayal of madness. Welsh baritone Kelvin Thomas reprises the virtuoso lead role that he has made his own in productions across the world, often in the presence of the composer.

ANDRÉ MESSAGER (1853–1929)

Fortunio Alex Vearey-Roberts

Director Daniel Slater

Based on Alfred de Musset’s comedy Le Chandelier

Jacqueline Ilona Domnich

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Choreographer Nick Winston

Sung in French with side-titles A production by Grange Park Opera A heart-warming, lively comedy of the Belle Époque.

Messager combines melodic richness with the fluid grace of Massenet, aristocratic elegance of Saint-Saëns and the refined subtlety of Fauré.

The delicious Jacqueline has a lover: the dashing Captain Clavaroche. Her elderly husband must be put off the scent; she needs a decoy, a ‘chandelier’. For junior clerk Fortunio it was love-at-first-sight and he slides into the role: he would die for her. In a hilarious bedroom scene Jacqueline’s three worlds collide and Fortunio’s tender impassioned love song wins her heart.

The set recreates the first theatre at The Grange which was used between 1998 and 2002.

Madelon Sylvie Bedouelle Maître André Timothy Dawkins Clavaroche Quirijn de Lang Gertrude Cátia Moreso Maître Subtil Mark Cunningham

Opera House 17 & 19 July 7.15pm–9.30pm Tickets: £15–£58

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King Kelvin Thomas

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Friday 5th July OPERA TALK

3–21 July The 2013 Fringe offers a spectacular programme of theatre, comedy, music, film, exhibitions, poetry, children’s events and more. One of the largest Fringes in England, it features some 500 events including a free afternoon sampler at the Pavilion Gardens on July 7. The Fringe is open to all with no selection or censorship. The programme is published in early June and on www.buxtonfringe. org.uk, where you can order a printed programme and find out how to become a Fringe Friend. For queries email info@buxtonfringe.org.uk or call 01298 79351.

6.15pm Pavilion Arts Centre FREE Daily discussion of the evening’s opera, led by Stephen Barlow.

DOUBLE BILL: La Colombe – Gounod La Princesse Jaune – Saint-Saëns

A SONG AT SIX 6pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand FREE

7.15pm–9.45pm Opera House Tickets: £15–£58 (see p.6)

Join members of the Young Artists Programme for a daily al fresco Song at Six.

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Saturday 6th July WORBEY & FARRELL 2pm–3pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £12

THE TITIAN EXPERIENCE A National Gallery Festival Tour 10am–4pm Pavilion Gardens Promenade FREE Immerse yourself in great art by Renaissance master Titian. This mobile cinema offers a National Gallery festival experience celebrating Diana and Callisto, a painting recently acquired for the nation. On the outside of the cinema you’ll find full-size framed reproductions of Diana and Callisto and two related works – Diana and Actaeon and The Death of Actaeon. Step inside to watch a short film that approaches Titian’s work from a 21st-century perspective. You’ll also get the chance to speak to a National Gallery expert, who’ll be on hand to introduce the film and answer questions. Explore the paintings, be inspired and tell us what you think.

A National Gallery project with support from the Art Fund and the Heritage Lottery Fund

PETER CONRAD Songs of Love & Death

with Donald Maxwell, Kathryn Harries & Linda Ormiston

In conversation with Stephen Barlow

12 noon–1.30pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand Tickets: £6 This short walk takes in many of Buxton’s entertainment venues, past and present, including concert halls, bandstands, theatres and cinemas. Trevor Gilman explains how they developed and how they reflected the town’s changing aspirations and fortunes over the past two hundred years.

12 noon–1pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10

10.30am–11.30am Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50 Following their riveting talk on Verdi and Wagner at last year’s Festival, Peter Conrad and Stephen Barlow discuss opera and its meaning, in a freewheeling conversation.

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WALK Entertaining Buxton

The thought may perhaps have lovers of bel canto running for cover, but Kathryn Harries, Linda Ormiston and Donald Maxwell are all still being paid to sing, and are delighted to return to the scene of their former triumphs at the Buxton Festival. Their programme won’t have much Verdi, Wagner or even Britten, but will have a dollop of nostalgic reminiscence from La Colombe thirty years ago, the odd story from Festivals over the years and, yes, you have been warned … they will all sing, even slightly seriously! This morning’s undemanding offering will strike a chord with regular Festival-goers, amuse anyone who thinks opera takes itself too seriously, and astonish those of you who think that Harries, Ormiston and Maxwell are residents of the nursing home in Quartet!

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Piano duo Steven Worbey and Kevin Farrell– previously known as Katzenjammer – combine musical thrills with a deep love of laughter, and have entertained audiences all over the globe with their barnstorming blend of sparky comedy and utterly sensational piano-playing. Their instrument can imitate the tones of a Spanish guitar, resound with the pyrotechnics of Tchaikovsky’s 1812, or pulsate with the passions of the masters of jazz. They perform everything from Rachmaninov’s 18th Variation to Highland Cathedral, from Carnival of the Animals to Bumble Boogie. Prepare to be moved, excited and amazed – and to laugh with joy at the sheer ingenuity and style of these two masters of musical mayhem.

A.N. WILSON A Potter’s Hand 4pm–5pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50 In his fascinating historical novel, A.N. Wilson (whose father was Managing Director of Josiah Wedgwood & Sons) uses the point of view of Sukey, daughter of Josiah Wedgewood and mother of Charles Darwin, to mould the story of Josiah’s entrepreneurial brilliance as he creates an empire that will endure for generations.

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JOHN STANDING SWINGS COLE PORTER

A SONG AT SIX 6pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand FREE

OPERA TALK 6.15pm Pavilion Arts Centre FREE

LA FINTA GIARDINIERA 7.15pm–10.15pm Opera House Tickets: £15–£58 (see p.7) Supported by

10pm–11pm The Pavilion Café Buxton Tickets: £15 John Standing is one of our best-known actors and in this ‘delightful, delicious and de-lovely experience’ (Daily Telegraph) John sings 17 of Cole Porter’s greatest songs including You Do Something To Me, I Get A Kick Out Of You, You’re The Top, Night and Day and It’s De-Lovely and tells stories of a life in the theatre and movies.

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‘ … striking and charismatic, his lived-in voice and air of casual sophistication are beautifully suited to the wry wit and aching romanticism of Cole Porter’s American Songbook’ – Daily Telegraph

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Sunday 7th July THE TITIAN EXPERIENCE A National Gallery Festival Tour

10.30am–11.30am Pavilion Arts Centre £8.50

10am–4pm Pavilion Gardens Promenade FREE (see p.14)

10.30am–11.30am Devonshire Dome £2.50 per child (accompanied adults free)

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Would you like to find out about a caterpillar named Catullus and an Armadillo named Ariadne, who is addicted to sweets? They get themselves into some rather tricky situations but do, eventually, find a way out. A fun event for 4–8-year-olds and their families.

FESTIVAL MASS Mozart – Missa Brevis in D, K194 Hannah Sawle – soprano Sophie Goldrick – mezzo Adam Kowalczyk – tenor Thomas Humphreys – bass 10.45am–12 noon St John’s Church FREE With Buxton Madrigal Singers & Orchestra and soloists from Buxton Festival Young Artists Programme, recorded by the BBC for future broadcast.

CPE Bach – Sonata in G major Debussy – Clair de Lune Faure – Une Chatelaine en sa Tour Britten – Suite for Harp Salzedo – Variations on a Theme 12 noon–1pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £12 From 2007 to 2011, Claire was official Harpist to HRH the Prince of Wales. In 2008 she made her concerto debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes. Her performances at major music festivals and concert venues throughout the UK include solo recitals at the Wigmore Hall. She has also featured as concerto soloist in Britain, the USA and further afield. Claire’s collaborations include performances with Joshua Bell, William Bennett, James Galway, Steven Isserlis, Julian Lloyd Webber and Bryn Terfel.

THOMAS HEATHERWICK Making

A SONG AT SIX 6pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand FREE

In conversation with Joanna Lumley

Bestselling historian William Dalrymple tells the story of the first Afghan War, Britain’s greatest military humiliation of the nineteenth century – in which an entire army of the most powerful nation in the world was routed by poorly equipped tribesmen – through the lives of unforgettable characters on all sides using, for the first time, contemporary Afghan accounts of the conflict.

RACHEL BRADDOCK Catullus the Caterpillar

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WILLIAM DALRYMPLE Return of a King – The Battle for Afghanistan

SHINING ARMOUR A new look at Brahms’s Die schöne Magelone with Roderick Williams – baritone Iain Burnside – piano and Victoria Newlyn as Clara Schumann

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4pm–5pm Pavilion Arts Centre £8.50 Thomas Heatherwick, the multiaward-winning designer of the magnificent Olympic cauldron, discusses with Joanna Lumley all aspects of his creative life. Known for his ingenious and inventive use of materials, he will discuss the limits of the possible, and the ways in which he pushes those limits to the very edge.

2pm–3pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £12

7.15pm–10pm Opera House £15–£45 Two of the country’s most soughtafter singers, celebrated soprano Claire Rutter and acclaimed baritone Stephen Gadd are joined by the Northern Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Stephen Barlow, for a scintillating evening of orchestral music, arias and scenes from the operas of Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Massenet and Rossini and operetta. The concert also features the famous Meditation for Violin and Orchestra from Thaïs.

One of the UK’s leading sopranos, Claire received outstanding reviews for her performance in English National Opera’s new production of Lucrezia Borgia, and for ENO she has also sung Donna Anna Don Giovanni, the title roles in Tosca and Aida, Amelia Un ballo in maschera, Elvira Ernani, Gilda Rigoletto and Violetta La traviata.

Iain Burnside, Roderick Williams and Victoria Newlyn take Brahms’s Die schöne Magelone, his one substantial song cycle and, in place of the composer’s improbably epic tale of chivalric love, create a narrative exploring the tempestuous love affair of Robert and Clara Schumann: their passion transfigured into sublime music, most spectacularly with the prodigious outpourings of Schumann songs in 1840.

The nature of the relationship of these three musical giants, has been the subject of much speculation, and the launch-pad for this fascinating and unique performance.

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Claire Rutter – soprano Stephen Gadd – baritone Northern Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Stephen Barlow

English baritone Stephen Gadd’s roles have included Escamillo Carmen for Welsh National Opera; Balstrode Peter Grimes for the Opéras de Montpellier; Valentin Faust for the Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg; the title role in Don Giovanni for Opéra de Metz and Opéra de Rennes; Count Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro for the Salzburg Festival tour to Japan.

Last year he played the role of Storch in Intermezzo at the Buxton Festival.

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Monday 8th July SANDI TOKSVIG Valentine Grey

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10.30am–11.30am Opera House Tickets: £8.50 One of Britain’s best-loved writers and performers comes to Buxton with a striking novel about liberty, empire and war. In 1897, Valentine Grey comes to London from India – forced into the confinement of skirts and corsets, unused to the rigid rules of Victorian society and desperately homesick, Valentine’s only happiness comes from her wayward cousin, Reggie. When Reggie is called up to fight in the Boer War, Valentine rashly takes his place, but war is not glorious in this moving and powerful story of a young woman who pushes herself to the limits of honour, loyalty and love.

BUXTON FESTIVAL YOUNG ARTISTS Sacred and Profane 12 noon–1pm Pavilion Arts Centre £12 Introducing the Buxton Festival Young Artists in a programme of opera, musical theatre and lieder, designed to show off their unique and burgeoning talents.

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OPERA TALK THE SACCONI QUARTET

6.15pm Pavilion Arts Centre FREE

Verdi – String Quartet in E minor Dvorˇák – String Quartet in F, opus 96, ‘American’ 2pm–3pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £12 Following last year’s popular appearances at the Festival, we’re pleased to welcome back The Sacconi Quartet. Formed in 2001, they have enjoyed a highly successful international career, performing regularly throughout Europe, at London’s major venues, in recordings and on radio broadcasts with style and commitment and a fresh and imaginative approach.

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HANNAH ROTHSCHILD The Jazz Baroness 4pm–5pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50 Who was this enigmatic woman born into the isolated privilege of the Rothschild family and why did one of the greatest jazz artists of our age dedicate so much work to her? Who was Nica Rothschild?

Hannah Rothschild tells the story of her scandalous great aunt, who became a lieutenant in the French Resistance and who ran away from a life of privilege to live and breathe jazz in New York City as the muse of bebop giant Thelonious Monk.

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DOUBLE BILL 7.15pm–9.45pm Opera House Tickets: £15–£58 (see p.6)

FESTIVAL FRIENDS’ PARTY 9.45pm Old Hall Hotel Ticket: £15 Post opera drinks with the cast.

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Tuesday 9th July THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE Collecting at Chatsworth

WALK The Future of Buxton’s Heritage

COOKERY DEMONSTRATION Simon Bradley

4pm–5pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50

10.30am–11.30am Opera House Tickets: £8.50

12 noon–1.30pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand Tickets: £6

3pm–4pm Devonshire Dome Tickets: £6

Chatsworth House has been a repository for artefacts ever since Bess built the first Cavendish House on this site. Over the generations this accumulation of objects has reflected the tastes of the successive incumbents and the fashions of their times. In this fascinating talk, the present Duke of Devonshire will describe the more interesting collectors among his ancestors and bring the audience up to date with what he and his wife are adding to Chatsworth.

From the Opera House, Slopes and Pavilion Gardens to the Devonshire Royal Campus and the ambitious plans for the Crescent and Thermal Spa, Buxton’s rich architectural heritage is enjoying a new lease of life through a programme of heritage-led regeneration.

Conservation expert Richard Tuffrey leads a walk taking in all of these projects and more, looking at their recent and past history and some of the issues surrounding their restoration.

Simon Bradley is the Head Chef of the triple AA Rosette restaurant at the stunning East Lodge Country House Hotel. Simon will wow with his culinary tricks and give a real insight into an award winning kitchen. Learn how the real pros turn local produce into delicious dishes – you may even get to try a mouthful if you’re lucky!

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MONSIEUR GOUNOD & MRS WELDON Michael Pennington – narrator Stephen Barlow – piano Members of the Young Artists Programme

PADDY ASHDOWN A Brilliant Little Operation

The Former Liberal Democrat leader, himself once a member of the Special Boat Service, tells the gripping story of the bravery and ingenuity of the ‘Cockleshell Heroes’ – the daring and secret WWII raid, taking canoes into Bordeaux harbour, to sink the ships at anchor, an immense blow struck at the Germans’ sense of impregnability.

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A SONG AT SIX 6pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand FREE

OPERA TALK 6.15pm Pavilion Arts Centre FREE

LA FINTA GIARDINIERA 7.15pm–10.15pm Opera House Tickets: £15–£58 (see p.7) Supported by Brian Ashby

12 noon–1pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £12

THE SACCONI QUARTET & ANDREW MARRINER – clarinet Bridge – Three Novelletten for String Quartet Britten – String Quartet No. 2 in C, opus 36 Mozart – Clarinet Quintet in A, K 581 2pm–3.30pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £19

Best-known for Faust and for his setting of the Ave Maria, Gounod was a devout Catholic who nearly became a priest as a young man and who was torn between the spiritual and the secular for most of his life. This delightful combination of songs and narration (compiled by Henrietta Bredin) focuses on the bizarre relationship between Gounod and the deeply eccentric Englishwoman Georgina Weldon, nearly 20 years his junior, with whom he lived in a bizarre ménage à trois in London from 1870–1874.

Following last year’s popular appearances at the Festival, we’re pleased to welcome back The Sacconi Quartet. The Quartet is joined by Andrew Marriner, principal clarinettist of the London Symphony Orchestra.

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Wednesday 10th July FRANCES OSBORNE Park Lane

NORTHERN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

MATTHEW RICE Rice’s Church Primer

A SONG AT SIX 6pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand FREE

Stephen Barlow – conductor 10.30am–11.30am Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50 Set in 1914, Park Lane tells the story of two young women – one upstairs, one below stairs – who dream of breaking free from tradition and obligation; they know that suffragettes are on the march and war looms … Frances Osborne, bestselling author of The Bolter and wife of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has drawn on the story of her family, the Brasseys, for this highly entertaining story of a world on the point of change.

Mozart – Adagio K411, for 2 Clarinets and 3 Bassett Horns Mozart – Divertimento for Wind, No 14 in B flat, K270 Richard Strauss – Sonatina No 2 for 16 wind instruments, Op 143 12 noon–1pm St John’s Church Tickets: £12 The Northern Chamber Orchestra was formed in the 1960s and has gained a formidable reputation from its engaging and exciting concerts, tackling a wide range of repertoire from Corelli through to Stravinsky and the present day. The members of the orchestra are distinguished chamber musicians who play as principals with other orchestras and regularly appear as soloists. The Northern Chamber Orchestra is proud to be ‘Orchestra in Residence’ at Manchester Metropolitan University and Blackburn Cathedral and of its long association with Buxton Festival.

4pm–5pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50 Churches represent some of the most iconic, beautiful and occasionally bizarre buildings in the country. They have a lot to say about our history, our art and our ideas. But how do you read them? The irrepressibly entertaining Matthew Rice explains the language of architecture in churches – why are naves necessary, why are towers built as tall as possible and why does even the most respectable church need a good flying buttress?

OPERA TALK ORGAN RECITAL Ben Morris – Jesus College Cambridge 4pm–5pm St John’s Church Tickets: £10

6.15pm Pavilion Arts Centre FREE

OTTONE IN VILLA

Promoted by St John’s Church.

A recital on the four manual Hill Organ in the glorious acoustic of St John’s Church.

7.15pm–10pm Opera House Tickets: £15–£48 (see p.8)

The Palace Hotel is Buxton’s only 4* hotel which combines stunning Victorian heritage with modern facilities The Palace Hotel is only a 5 minute walk from the Opera House and is set in 5 acres of beautifully landscaped gardens With 122 en-suite bedrooms, lounge bar, restaurant, beauty salon and leisure facilities including a 14metre swimming pool and 8 treatment rooms. The Palace Hotel is an ideal choice for your visit to the Festival

ANNE SOPHIE DUPRELS – soprano PASCAL ROGÉ – piano

Dine with us between 5.30pm – 7pm and receive a 25% discount*

Poulenc – La Voix Humaine

Take advantage of our spa and receive a 25% discount off a treatment of your choice, spa days or just a day pass*

2pm–3pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £12

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Anne Sophie Duprels (also appearing as Léna in La Princesse Jaune at this year’s Festival) began her training as a pianist and studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris‚ graduating with the First Prize for Singing in 1998. Recent appearances include Hilda in Ernest Reyer’s Sigurd (Geneva Opera)‚ Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly (Edmonton Opera‚ Canada‚ Opera Holland Park and Opera North)‚ Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande and the title role in Manon (Teatro Colón‚ Buenos Aires).

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Pascal Rogé exemplifies the finest in French pianism; his playing of Poulenc, Satie, Fauré, Saint-Saëns & Ravel in particular is characterised by its elegance, beauty and delicate phrasing – his name is synonymous with the best playing of French repertory in the world today.

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Thursday 11th July MATTHEW PARRIS & ANDREW BRYSON The Spanish Ambassador’s Suitcase

WALK Buxton: Its Background and Beauty 12 noon–1.30pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand Tickets: £6

10.30am–11.30am Opera House Tickets: £8.50 Matthew Parris & Andrew Bryson bring together some of the funniest despatches from British Ambassadors abroad, in this sequel to their acclaimed Parting Shots. Based on a new BBC Radio 4 series, it features some classic stories, from the horse given to John Major by the authorities in Turkmenistan which got lost in the Russian rail system to the puzzling behaviour of the Spanish Ambassador in the Algerian desert. They throw a light on how we British have viewed the world … and how the world has viewed us!

Ellen Outram’s walk takes in the architecture and beauty of Buxton’s buildings and shows how the town evolved through the Georgian and Victorian periods to become one of the most fashionable spa towns in the country. Relive the glorious past through the stories of its famous visitors and travel writers and hear the snippets that make Buxton such a hidden gem today.

From the Devonshire’s connection to royal dissent, the town’s rich heritage comes to life.

JAMES GILCHRIST – tenor ANNA TILBROOK – piano Britten – Folk Songs Faure – L’Horizon Chimerique Schubert – Water Songs Britten – On This Island 12 noon–1pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £12 Following his stand-out performance in the title role of Handel’s Jephtha in 2012, James Gilchrist makes a welcome return. This year he will also be performing in Mahogany Opera’s production of Britten’s Church Parables.

ARTEMIS COOPER Patrick Leigh Fermor – An Adventure

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4pm–5pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50

3.15pm–3.45pm Pavilion Arts Centre FREE

Widely regarded as one of our greatest ever travel writers, Sir Patrick ‘Paddy’ Leigh Fermor (1915–2011) was also one of the most remarkable men of his times. Artemis Cooper has drawn on extensive interviews with his closest friends, family and the man himself to craft this beautiful biography of a much-loved, legendary figure – a man of action and an intellectual, full of endless tales and extraordinary gifts.

An opportunity to listen in on a conversation between Iain Burnside and some of the artists.

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OPERA TALK

DOUBLE BILL

6pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand FREE

6.15pm Pavilion Arts Centre FREE

7.15pm–9.45pm Opera House Tickets: £15–£58 (see p.6)

LA SERENISSIMA Per Monsieur Pisendel Adrian Chandler – violin Gareth Deats – cello Robert Howarth – harpsichord

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Pisendel – Sonata in c for violin & continuo Albinoni – Sonata in Bb for violin & continuo, So 34 Vivaldi – Suonata à Solo fatto per Monsieur Pisendel in A RV 29 Pisendel – Sonata a Violino Solo in a Montanari – Sonata in d for violin & continuo Vivaldi – Suonata à Solo fatto per Monsieur Pisendel in F RV 19 2pm–3pm St John’s Church Tickets: £12 Guest Accommodation

A tribute to the great German Baroque virtuoso violinist Johann Georg Pisendel (1687–1755) featuring six virtuoso sonatas. This is the companion programme to Per Monsieur Pisendel which was released on Avie records in 2003 and further explores the repertoire of one of the eighteenth century’s greatest violinists.

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Friday 12th July ROY HATTERSLEY The Devonshires – The Story of a Family and a Nation

A SONG AT SIX 6pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand FREE

10.30am–11.30am Opera House Tickets: £8.50

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The story of the Cavendish family and the first eight Dukes of Devonshire from 1381 – when Sir John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England, was killed during the Peasant’s Revolt – to 1906, when the Duke of Devonshire’s resignation brought down the Tory government. The family’s fortunes (and misfortunes) have mirrored the life of the nation.

Brilliantly researched, this is delicious popular history at its very best.

ROGER PARKER A History of Opera – The Last Four Hundred Years

6.15pm Pavilion Arts Centre FREE

BUXTON FESTIVAL YOUNG ARTISTS

4pm–5pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50

LA FINTA GIARDINIERA

KATE LADNER – soprano FIONA MCSHERRY – piano Love & Loss

Poulenc – songs for women in love Schumann – Spanische Liebes-Lieder, Op 138 12 noon–1pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £12 Buxton Festival Young Artists commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Francis Poulenc in a selection of songs of love alongside Schumann’s Spanische Liebeslieder, Op 138.

Schumann – Frauenliebe und Leben, Op 42 Mozart – Traurigkeit, from Die Entführung aus dem Serail Granados – La Maja Dolorosa, from Tonadillas Num 1, 2 & 3 Granados – La Maja y el Ruisenor, from Goyescas Puccini – Chi il ben sogno, from La Rondine Catalani – Ebben? Ne andro lontana, from La Wally 2pm–3pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £12 Kate Ladner makes a welcome return to the Buxton Festival following her performances as The Maiden and The Princess in last year’s Double Bill.

Opera as an art form remains extraordinarily buoyant and challenging. It continues to transform people physically, emotionally, and intellectually, and to articulate human experience in ways no other art form can match. Roger Parker celebrates the last 400 years of opera’s history, with discussion of many works by the greatest composers, as well as the problems that opera has faced in the last half century, when new works – once opera’s life-blood – have largely failed to find a permanent place in the repertoire.

7.15pm–10.15pm Opera House Tickets: £15–£58 (see p.7)

ALEX YELLOWLEES HOT CLUB JAZZ QUARTET 10pm–11pm The Pavilion Café Buxton Tickets: £15 Following their outstanding debut at last year’s Festival, Alex Yellowlees and his band return.

Reminiscent of Django Reinhardt and the legendary Hot Club de France, this modern Grappelli on violin, with virtuoso guitarists Ged Brockie and Mike Nisbet and bassist Kenny Ellis, perform exciting, intoxicating swing jazz, laced with Latin rhythms and spiced with Celtic gypsy flair!

Expect world-class – for that is what you will get! – Italy International Jazz Festival

MEET THE ARTISTS with Iain Burnside BUXTON NIGHT FOOD & DRINK FESTIVAL This evening, visit the Buxton Night Food & Drink Festival in the Pavilion Gardens, from 4pm–11pm

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Saturday 13th July Talking Birds presents THE WHALE

NICK ROBINSON Live from Downing Street

CHRIS MULLIN A Walk-On Part

10am–4pm Opera House forecourt FREE

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4pm–5pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50

Enter the jaws of a giant silver whale to be serenaded by a lovesick submariner, and you might leave with a gift from the sea. A three-minute journey for one adventurer at a time (or two if you’re shy). Suitable for all ages 6+ and fully accessible for wheelchair users.

The BBC’s political editor’s colourful and personal account of the relationship between the men and women who wield power and those whose job it is to tell the public what they are doing, the prime ministers who pioneered broadcasting live from Downing Street, those who fought back and those who could never quite come to terms with it, as well as the charismatic inquisitors of radio and television.

Chris Mullin presents the third and final volume (after A View from the Foothills and Decline & Fall) of his witty, elegant and wickedly indiscreet diaries, widely reckoned to be the best account of the rise and fall of New Labour from start to finish.

MICHAEL MORPURGO The Mozart Question Alison Reid – actress Daniel Pioro – violin Directed by Simon Reade 12 noon–1pm Opera House Tickets: £12 Bestselling author Michael Morpurgo’s stories move from happiness to catastrophe in an inkling. He tells his tales through the eyes of adults and the eyes of a child – often simultaneously.

In The Mozart Question, he tells the story of Jewish prisoners of war, forced to play Mozart violin concerti for the enemy; how they watched fellow Jews being led off to their deaths and knew that they were playing for their lives.

As the story unfolds, we begin to understand the full horror of war, and how one group of musicians survived using the only weapon they had – music.

OPERA TALK

TANGO 5

6.15pm Pavilion Arts Centre FREE

10pm–11pm The Pavilion Café Buxton Tickets: £15

OTTONE IN VILLA 7.15pm–10pm Opera House Tickets: £15–£48 (see p.8)

MEET THE ARTISTS with Iain Burnside 3.15pm–3.45pm Pavilion Arts Centre FREE (see p.25)

In this moving and powerful presentation of his book, we all bear witness to a Europe devastated by war, to the ties that bind parents and children, and to the sublime redemption offered by exquisite classical music.

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A rare chance to hear the thrilling sound of the tango quintet (violin, double bass, guitar, piano and bandoneon) with Tango 5.

Argentine bandoneon player Santiago Cimadevilla joins top UK musicians for a passionate programme of music from the great periods of tango. Traditional tangos exude charm and rhythm alongside the sinuous sounds of Astor Piazzolla’s controversial Tango Nuevo

BUXTON CARNIVAL

Today is Buxton Carnival day, so enjoy all the fun on offer in the town and make sure you give yourself plenty of time to arrive at your chosen Festival events.

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Sunday 14th July Talking Birds presents THE WHALE

TANIA BRAMLEY Chintz the Chihuahua

10am–4pm Opera House forecourt FREE (see p.28)

10.30am–11.30am Devonshire Dome Tickets: £2.50 per child (accompanied adults free) Tania Bramley is a children’s writer who lives and writes in the Peak District, not far from the village where she grew up.

At this fun talk, aimed at children aged 4–7, Tania will discuss her book Chintz the Chihuahua, the endearing tales of a spoilt little Chihuahua, her best friend Sandy the golden retriever, and a whole load of mischief.

FESTIVAL MASS Schubert – Mass in B flat, D 324

JEREMY BOWEN The Arab Uprisings

Keri Fuge – soprano Sarah Champion – mezzo Edward Lee – tenor Samuel Pantcheff – bass

10.30am–11.30am Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50 Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s Middle East Editor gives a penetrating, on-the-ground account of the recent turmoil and uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, from which he reported as revolution swept through the region. Recognising this as a game-changing moment in the history of the Middle East, through the thoughts and feelings of the people involved, The Arab Uprisings captures the violent foment of those heady days and follows the story as it has evolved over the months. This is an urgent and authoritative account of a year like no other before it, told by one of the foremost reporters of our time

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11.15am–12.30pm St John’s Church FREE With Buxton Musical Society & Orchestra and soloists from Buxton Festival Young Artists Programme.

LITERARY BRITTEN A recital of music & readings by Benjamin Britten & WH Auden

OPERA TALK 6.15pm Pavilion Arts Centre FREE

Andrew Kennedy – tenor Iain Burnside – piano Alex Jennings – reader

CHURCH PARABLES Curlew River

12 noon–1pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £12 Literary Britten celebrates the unique relationship of Benjamin Britten and WH Auden, a rare example of a living poet and composer mutually influencing each other’s work, and developing their political and artistic views alongside each other. They were both young men in the 1930s, and the atmosphere of struggle and the threat of the rise of fascism dominated their thinking.

The programme aims to reflect different aspects of a unique creative friendship, at a very particular point in history, and reflects the themes that were current concerns to Britten and Auden in the 1930s – love, travel, politics, in particular the rise of fascism and impending war, and their relationship to words and music. Britten’s music is brought to life by tenor Andrew Kennedy and pianist Iain Burnside, while the words of both men are read by award-winning actor Alex Jennings, who himself played Britten in Alan Bennett’s play The Habit of Art.

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9pm–10.15pm St John’s Church Tickets: £38 (see p.9)

FESTIVAL FRIENDS’ LUNCH

3.30pm–6.30pm Opera House Tickets: £15–£58 (see p.6)

1pm Old Hall Hotel Ticket: £29 Enjoy a 3-course lunch with fellow Friends.

THE SACCONI QUARTET Haydn – String Quartet in F minor, opus 20 no. 5 Beethoven – String Quartet in A minor, opus 132 2pm–3.15pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £12 (see p.19)

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PAUL KILDEA Benjamin Britten – A Life in the 20th Century 4pm–5pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50 Writer and conductor Paul Kildea has marked the Britten centenary year with the definitive biography of Britain’s greatest modern composer, who recreated English music in a fresh, dynamic form.

He also explores Britten’s passionately held pacifism, his homosexuality, his 40-year relationship with Peter Pears, and the atmosphere and the foundation of the Aldeburgh Festival and the building of Snape Maltings.

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Monday 15th July A.C. GRAYLING The God Argument 10.30am–11.30am Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50 Philosopher A.C. Grayling considers all the arguments against religion and, equally important, puts forward an alternative – humanism. He calmly examines all the considerations offered in support of religious belief, but also asks: What is the alternative to religion as a view of the world and a foundation for morality?

SCENES FROM AN OPERA La finta giardiniera

WALK Buxton: Its Background and Beauty

Director – Dafydd Hall Williams Musical Director – Fiona McSherry

12 noon–1.30pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand Tickets: £6 (see p.24)

12 noon–1pm Palace Hotel Tickets: £12 Members of our Young Artists Programme, who will be understudying principal roles in the two Festival productions, present scenes from La finta giardiniera.

CHURCH PARABLES The Prodigal Son

CHURCH PARABLES The Burning Fiery Furnace

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9pm–10pm St John’s Church Tickets: £38 (see p.9)

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NORTHERN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA JOHN MULLAN What Matters in Jane Austen?

Rheinberger – Organ Concerto in F, Op 137 Mozart – Clarinet Concert in A, K622 Vivaldi – The Four Seasons

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John Mullan engagingly explores the rituals and conventions of Jane Austen’s fictional world in order to reveal her technical virtuosity and sheer daring as a novelist. Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call each other, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? And why is it risky to go to the seaside?

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Tuesday 16th July ANN WIDDECOMBE Strictly Ann – The Autobiography 10.30am–11.30am Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50 Forthright, intrepid and engaging, Ann Widdecombe, former Shadow Home Secretary and more recently star of Strictly Come Dancing, will recall a life with scarcely a dull moment – from a childhood spent in Singapore and Bath, to her successful decades in politics, never scared of courting controversy, followed by her TV and stage appearances and her career as a novelist.

WALK The Future of Buxton’s Heritage 12 noon–1.30pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand Tickets: £6 (see p.20)

PASCAL & AMI ROGÉ Ravel – Rhapsodie Espagnole Ravel – Scheherazade Pascal & Ami Rogé – piano Anne Sophie Duprels – soprano 12 noon–1pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £12 Pascal Rogé is one of the great interpreters of French piano music – his name is simply synonymous with the best playing of French repertoire in the world today. For several years, Pascal has enjoyed playing recitals for four-hands/two-pianos with his partner in life and in music Ami Rogé. Together, they have travelled the world appearing at prestigious festivals and concert halls. Additionally they have made a growing number of orchestral appearances and have recorded Wedding Cake, a CD of French repertoire for four hands and two pianos.

ANNE SOPHIE DUPRELS – soprano PASCAL ROGÉ – piano Poulenc – La Voix Humaine 2pm–3pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £12 (see p.22)

COOKERY DEMONSTRATION Joe Hunt 3pm–4pm Devonshire Dome Tickets: £6 Head Chef Tutor at Tideswell School of Food Joe Hunt, is a young and energetic chef with a great passion for sharing his culinary expertise. He has worked locally in traditional pubs and fine dining restaurants and is passionate about cooking with locally sourced and seasonal food.

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VICTORIA GLENDINNING Raffles & The Golden Opportunity 4pm–5pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50 Victoria Glendinning charts the prodigious rise of Thomas Stamford Raffles, the charismatic and persuasive founder of Singapore and Governor of Java – the adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India Company, utopian imperialist, linguist, zoologist and civil servant, who carved an extraordinary (though brief) life and a lasting reputation for himself in South East Asia.

A SONG AT SIX 6pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand FREE

THE KILLING FLOWER & EIGHT SONGS FOR A MAD KING 7.15pm–9.30pm Opera House Tickets: £15–£48 (see p.10)

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Wednesday 17th July JULIA BRADBURY Coast to Coast

ORGAN RECITAL David Gerrard – Magdalen College Oxford

10.30am–11.30am Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50 One of TV’s most popular and versatile presenters, Julia Bradbury’s passion for the British countryside is demonstrated each week when as co-presenter of BBC 1’s Countryfile, she reports on rural and environmental issues throughout the UK. Julia’s reputation as the face of the outdoors began when she fronted Wainwright Walks, following in the footsteps of legendary fell-walker Alfred Wainwright – and in Coast to Coast she builds on her fast-growing authority with nature-lovers the length and breadth of the country.

BUXTON FESTIVAL YOUNG ARTISTS Stephen Barlow – conductor The Gentlemen of the Young Artists Programme Stephen Oliver – Exposition of a Picture Stravinsky – Renard 12 noon–1pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £12 (see p.44)

Promoted by St John’s Church.

A recital on the four manual Hill Organ in the glorious acoustic of St John’s Church.

4pm–5pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50

Whitbread Award-winning author Jane Gardam comes to Buxton with Last Friends, the witty and sparkling final volume of her Old Filth trilogy, in which we meet Terence Veneering, son of a Russian acrobat and rival in work and in love) to the Titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Old Filth QC. Deborah Moggach, bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, has followed this up with Heartbreak Hotel, which will prove every bit as irresistible. Two novelists at the top of their game discuss the spinning of stories.

6pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand FREE

OPERA TALK 6.15pm Pavilion Arts Centre FREE

FORTUNIO 7.15pm–9.30pm Opera House Tickets: £15–£58 (see p.11)

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Mozart – Kegelstatt Trio, K498 for clarinet, viola & piano Dvorˇák – Silent Woods, B 173 for cello & piano Dohnanyi – Sextet, Op 37 2pm–3.30pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £19 Now in its eighteenth year, The Fibonacci Sequence is considered one of the UK’s most distinguished chamber ensembles with a wide-ranging discography and impressive reviews. The ensemble members appear at the world’s leading festivals and venues and many of them are also on the faculties of leading conservatoires in the UK and abroad. Concerts for the ensemble recently included a visit to Colombia to appear in the prestigious chamber music series in Bogotá, Ibagué and Medellin. The Fibonacci Sequence has been chosen for the season 2012–2013 by the Concert Promotions Network. ‘dazzlingly good chamber ensemble … exuberantly expressive, intimate style … gorgeously idiomatic playing’ – The Times

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4pm–5pm St John’s Church Tickets: £10

JANE GARDAM & DEBORAH MOGGACH Friends and Rivals

A SONG AT SIX

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Lunch Menu from 12-2.30pm and Afternoon Tea from 2.30-5.00pm

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Schubert – Piano Quintet in A, D667 (The Trout)

Mozart – Oboe Quartet in F, K370 Glazunov – Elegy in G Minor Op 44, for viola & piano Schumann – Romance Op 94 for oboe & piano Mozart – Piano Quartet in G Minor, K478

Writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg returns to Buxton with his latest novel, Grace and Mary, a deeply moving, reflective elegy on three generations linked by a chain of love, loss and courage.

John’s mother, Mary, is in her nineties – her memory is beginning to fade and John recognises that it is becoming more difficult to reach her. Realising that Mary can live more fully in the past than the present, John uses old photographs and music to take her back to the time when she was a young woman. He discovers that Mary longs most of all for Grace, the mother she barely knew.

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CATHERINE BAILEY & CLIVE ASLET Secrets and Memorials 4pm–5pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50

A SONG AT SIX 6pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand FREE

Catherine Bailey, bestselling author of Black Diamonds, here explores the strange truth behind the mysterious death of the Ninth Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle in 1940. The Secret Rooms, her story of love, honour and betrayal, plays out in the drawing rooms of stately homes and the battlefields of the Western Front. Clive Aslet for the first time unravels the stories behind one War Memorial, in the Dartmoor village of Lydford.

Who were the men and women whose names are commemorated on war memorials around the country? Where did they live – and how and why did they die?

Both authors tease out forgotten lives and lost stories with compelling results.

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OPERA TALK 6.15pm Pavilion Arts Centre FREE

LA FINTA GIARDINIERA 7.15pm–10.15pm Opera House Tickets: £15–£58 (see p.7)

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Friday 19th July ANTONIA FRASER The Drama of the Great Reform Bill

SCENES FROM AN OPERA La Princesse Jaune & La Colombe

In conversation with Dame Janet Smith 10.30am–11.30am Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50 Antonia Fraser brilliantly evokes one year of pre-Victorian political and social history – from its ‘rotten boroughs’ of Old Sarum and the disappearing village of Dunwich and Wellington’s intractable declaration in November 1830 that ‘The beginning of reform is the beginning of revolution’, to 7 June 1832, the date of the reluctant royal assent by William IV to the Great Reform Bill.

These events led to a total change in the way Britain was governed, a two-year revolution that Antonia Fraser brings to vivid dramatic life.

Director – Alice Knight Musical Director – Annette Saunders 12 noon–1pm Palace Hotel Tickets: £12 Members of our Young Artists Programme, who will be understudying roles in our productions, present scenes from this year’s Double Bill.

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WALK Entertaining Buxton

Beethoven – Quintet in E flat, Op 16, for piano & wind Barber – Summer Music, Op 31 for wind quintet Cecilia McDowall – Century Dances Poulenc – Nocturne No 1 in C Poulenc – Sextet for piano & wind, Op 100

12 noon–1.30pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand Tickets: £6 (see p.14)

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JANE RIDLEY Bertie: A life of Edward VII 4pm–5pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50 Jane Ridley not only paints a fascinating and revealing portrait of Edward VII – always known as Bertie – as the high-living playboy he is often remembered as, but also an instinctive diplomat, who reinvented the monarchy and gave it a new role for the twentieth century. Bullied by both his parents, his power struggle with Queen Victoria as one of the stormiest mother-son relationships in history.

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THE JAMES PEARSON TRIO FEATURING LIZZIE BALL A Tribute to Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald & The Great American Songbook James Pearson – piano Lizzie Ball – violin and vocals Sam Burgess – double bass Chris Higginbottom – drums 10pm–11pm The Pavilion Café Buxton Tickets: £15 James Pearson, current Artistic Director and house pianist at the world-famous Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club in London, brings his all-star trio to perform two unforgettable late-night concerts based on the Great American Songbook. These concerts are a rare opportunity to experience jazz on a world class scale. Known for his formidable technical mastery, Pearson conjurs up the sound world of some of the greatest jazz pianists, featuring acclaimed violinist and vocalist Lizzie Ball.

James Pearson takes us to the world of Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald, exploring their amazing relationship with the great musicians and composers of the Great American Songbook, including Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, and Cole Porter. ‘dazzling jazz fiddle from Lizzie Ball’ – The Strad Magazine

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Saturday 20th July THE MAGICAL STORYTELLING YURT 10am–4pm Pavilion Gardens FREE Presented by High Peak Community Arts Step inside our magical yurt for storytelling and other fun activities for little Festival goers and their families.

SIMON JENKINS A Short History of England 10.30am–11.30am Opera House Tickets: £8.50 In A Short History of England, bestselling author Simon tells the tumultuous story of a fascinating nation. From the invaders of the dark ages to today’s coalition, via the Tudors, the Stuarts and two world wars, Jenkins weaves together a gripping narrative with all the most important and interesting dates in his own inimitable style.

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THE FIRE POET & SIRISHKUMAR Knights of the Round Tabla 12 noon–1pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £12 The Fire Poet & Sirishkumar are warriors of the lost lyrical art of the rhythmical music of words.

They will ignite and entertain you with nonsense and myth and everyday magic, dazzling you with the presence and power of a truly ancient sonic art.

Sirishkumar has been playing his Indian drums and claypot since the age of five. He has played at The Globe Theatre, with Oscarwinning Ennio Morricone on the hit film The City of Joy, and in India in front of 750,000 people.

Philip Wells has been described as ‘the foremost performance poet in England’ (Evening Standard) and by Radio 5 Live as ‘The REAL Poet Laureate’ and has performed at Buckingham Palace and The Royal Albert Hall.

DIANA MOORE & JOHN REID Feminine Charms

DEREK NIEMANN Birds in a Cage

THE JAMES PEARSON TRIO FEATURING LIZZIE BALL

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A Tribute to George Shearing, Stefane Grappelli, Peggy Lee & The Great American Songbook

In Birds in a Cage, we discover how four PoWs were forged by their wartime experience into the giants of post-war wildlife conservation. Derek Niemann tells the remarkable story of four men who, through a shared love of birds, overcame hunger, hardship, fear and stultifying boredom in Warburg PoW camp to bring purpose and dignity to their lives behind barbed wire.

Diana Moore – mezzo John Reid – piano 2pm–3pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £12 A revealing journey through the music of some of the female pioneers in late 19th and 20th century song composition, many of whom remain unrecognised.

Feminine Charms investigates their responses to the themes and challenges of the times they lived in and celebrates a plethora of musical gems that deserve to become part of the English song legacy, featuring songs by Amy Woodforde-Finden, Liza Lehmann, Maude Valerie White, Muriel Herbert, Ethel Smyth, Mary Plumstead, Phyllis Tate, Rebecca Clarke, Madeline Dring, Elaine Hugh-Jones and Lynne Plowman.

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10pm–11pm The Pavilion Café Buxton Tickets: £15 The second of the series explores the unique relationship between master of the block chord jazz style George Shearing and the great Grappelli in their later years and their links with the inimitable Peggy Lee and composers George Gershwin, Sammy Cahn and Mel Torme.

‘There’s no question the house band of Ronnie Scotts, led by James Pearson, upholds the old traditions. One of those multifaceted players capable of invoking everyone from George Gershwin to Oscar Peterson and Dudley Moore, Pearson is in shattering form: even a tune as overfamiliar as Cherokee comes up looking invigorated In a set full of contrast and colour, they come close to stealing the show every time’ – Sunday Times

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BARRY MILLINGTON The Sorcerer of Bayreuth – Richard Wagner, His Work & His World 10.30am–11.30am Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50

FESTIVAL MASS Rheinberger – Missa St Crucis in G, Op 151 11.15am–12.30pm St John’s Church FREE With Buxton Madrigal Singers.

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POETRY IN THE PAVILION

Stephen Barlow – conductor The Gentlemen of the Young Artists Programme

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12 noon–1pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £12 The Buxton Festival Young Artists present two contrasting pieces of music theatre. In Exposition of a Picture, Stephen Oliver imagines a meeting in an art gallery between two painters, driven from their countries by political upheaval – the young Frenchman, Marcello and the blind, elderly Cavaradossi.

Their interest in the portrait of Mary Magdalen forces them to recognise the points of comparison with their own lost loves.

Stravinsky’s Renard retells the story of the wiley fox who tricks various animals, only to have the tables turned on him.

LUCY HUGHES-HALLETT The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War 4pm–5pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50

Barry Millington gives an in-depth and utterly approachable account of Wagner’s life, work and times, from the composer’s sources of inspiration, his fetish for exotic silks, and his relationship with his wives and mistresses, to accusations of anti-Semitism, the operas’ proto-cinematic nature, and the turbulent legacy both of the Bayreuth Festival and of Wagnerism itself.

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Lucy Hughes-Hallett charts the outrageous career of Gabriele D’Annunzio, Italy’s leading poet at a time when poetry could trigger revolution, and a brilliant self-publicist at the dawn of the mass media.

His political journey from Romantic idealist to right-wing extremist – and in 1919 self-proclaimed leader of the captured city of Fiume – was never at odds with his insatiable appetite for women and beauty. The charismatic D’Annunzio was both flamboyant and malignant, and to learn about him is to understand the Italian zeitgeist in the early 20th century: his life can be seen as a parable of those heady times.

2pm–3pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £8.50 Three popular poets join forces for a lively afternoon of poetry performance and conversation on the themes of places, travel, the natural world, nature, animals, seasons, people and emotions (with a healthy dose of art, music, love, loss, philosophy and humour!)

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Pavilion Gardens...

...experience much more than Opera cupFREE

Overlooking 23-acres of award winning landscaped gardens, why not join us for breakfast, lunch or dinner or simply a quick drink before or after the performance at the Pavilion Café and choose from a mouth-watering variety of home cooked dishes with locally sourced ingredients from our specially selected Festival Menu.

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Buxton Festival will be utilising the Pavilion Arts Centre at Pavilion Gardens, which will conveniently provide customers with the opportunity to experience the other great facilities including the Pavilion Coffee Bar and Gift Boutique.

We are proud to include 2,000 local people in dynamic, creative arts activity every year through our Outreach programme. We offer specifically designed projects for targeted sections of our community and use professional artists to deliver quality events and projects.

• Provide platforms and opportunities for young professional artists within the Festival setting • To work in partnership with other local organisations to deliver our programme to encourage shared resources and expertise

Our objectives for the programme are to: • Foster an interest in performing arts in our community • Engage with different sections of our community who may not attend the July Festival • Help local schools to deliver quality music education • Provide platforms and opportunities for young people who have potential artistic talent in our community

Our projects cover different aspects of the arts, linking Festival artists with local people. All projects are free to participants.

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* In conjunction with ‘main’ meal purchase from our menu in the Pavilion Café only, your free cup of regular tea or coffee can be redeemed by producing your Pavilion Arts Centre or Opera House theatre ticket on the day of the performance.

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This year we are delighted to establish a Young Artists Programme. The programme involves eight young singers who have completed their formal vocal and opera training in the work of the Festival. The Young Artists will act as understudies for roles in Festival productions, in addition regular appearances throughout the Festival in concerts and music theatre.

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By Car Buxton is only an hour’s drive from the M1, M6, Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham and Derby. See www.theaa.com for a route planner.

Car Parking There are 1001 car park spaces in Buxton including:

A6 to BAKEWELL, TIDESWELL & MATLOCK

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By Rail Regular inter-city trains from Euston to Macclesfield, Stockport and Manchester with connecting sevices to Buxton (journey time approx. three hours). The last train from Buxton to Manchester leaves at 10.56pm.

National Rail www.nationalrail.co.uk / 08457 48 49 50

Opera House Pay and display parking for 50 cars, including 2 spaces for the disabled.

Charges: 1 hour 70p, 2 hours £1.20, 4 hours £2.50, free after 6pm.

By Bus Direct buses to Buxton operate from Chesterfield, Derby, Glossop, Huddersfield, Macclesfield, Sheffield, Stockport and Stoke.

Pavilion Gardens Parking for 262 cars including 15 spaces for the disabled. Charges: 1 hour £1, 2 hours £1.60, 4 hours £3, over 4 hours £5, free after 6pm.

England’s Leading Spa Town

Palace Hotel For non-residents: £4.50 for 3 hours and then £1 per hour. £7.50 spent on refreshments gives 3 hours free parking.

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Please allow extra time if travelling by car on Carnival Day (13 July)

Box Office: 0845 127 2190 / Book tickets online: www.buxtonfestival.co.uk

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By Air Regular national and international flights to Manchester (44 [0] 161 489 3000) and Nottingham East Midlands airports (44 [0] 871 919 9000)

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WHERE TO STAY HOTELS

OLD HALL HOTEL The Square Buxton SK17 6BD 01298 22841 reception@oldhallhotelbuxton.co.uk www.oldhallhotelbuxton.co.uk

ALISON PARK HOTEL 3 Temple Road Buxton, SK17 9BA 01298 22473 www.alison-park-hotel.co.uk Our beautiful Edwardian hotel is set in its own gardens, only five minutes’ walk away from the Opera House and the Pavilion Gardens. Our bedrooms offer a combination of double, twin, single or family accommodation, all non-smoking.

Our conservatory and restaurant provide a comfortable setting for a hearty breakfast or dinner.

Situated across the leafy square from the Edwardian Opera House – the ideal base for your festival visit. We have 38 individually decorated bedrooms all with en suite facilities and free Wi-Fi. With a range of rooms from Single to Four Posters the Old Hall Hotel can meet your requirements. Bed and breakfast rates are from £77.50 per person. Dinner inclusive rates are available from £107.50 per person.

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PALACE HOTEL

The Park Buxton, SK17 6TQ 01298 23002 reservations@leewoodhotel.co.uk www.leewoodhotel.co.uk

Palace Road Buxton SK17 6AG 01298 22001 palace.events@pumahotels.co.uk www.pumahotels.co.uk

Set in its own mature gardens this elegant Georgian hotel is situated only a few moments’ walk from the centre of the spa town and its famous Opera House. Family owned for 55 years the hotel offers high quality accommodation and rosette standard dinning.

EAST LODGE COUNTRY HOUSE HOTEL

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OLDFIELD GUEST-HOUSE

32 St John’s Road, Buxton SK17 6XQ 01298 71493/22462/72503 portland.hotel@btinternet.com www.portlandhotelbuxton.net

DEVONSHIRE LODGE GUEST-HOUSE

8 Macclesfield Road Buxton SK17 9AH 01298 78264 avril@oldfieldhousebuxton.co.uk www.oldfieldhousebuxton.co.uk AAbbbb Gold Award, AA Breakfast Award

Ideally located, only 200 yards from the Opera House. Flat, well illuminated walk to and from the Opera House. Pre-theatre evening meals available. Single, Twins and Doubles at most competitive rates.

THREE HORSESHOES INN Blackshaw Moor Leek, ST13 8TW 01538 300296 enquiries@threeshoesinn.co.uk www.threeshoesinn.co.uk Family run Inn & Country Hotel is situated on the A53, 15 minutes south of Buxton and on the edge of the Peak National Park.

26 bedrooms ranging from boutique style standard bedrooms to luxury bedrooms offering four poster beds, whirlpool baths and large LCD TV. Traditional Bar Carvery & Grill or 2 AA Rosette Award Winning Brasserie & Grill featuring new Inka Grill. Special Offers and dinner, bed & breakfast rates are available.

THE PEACOCK AT ROWSLEY

Rowsley Matlock Derbyshire, DE4 2EF 01629 734474 info@easlodge.com www.eastlodge.com The multi-award-winning East Lodge Country House Hotel and Restaurant really is an oasis of peace and tranquillity. Set amidst 10 acres of its own landscaped water gardens and being one of the closest hotels to Chatsworth House, East Lodge is the perfect place to stay whilst exploring the wonders of the Peak District.

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Buxton’s only four star hotel, combining Victorian heritage with modern facilities.

The Palace is only a 5 minute walk from the Opera House and is set in five acres of landscaped gardens. With 122 en-suite bedrooms and full leisure facilities including a 14-metre indoor pool, the hotel is an ideal choice for your visit to the Festival.

PORTLAND HOTEL

Bakewell Road Rowsley DE4 2EB www.thepeacockatrowsley.com AAbbb AA Three Rosettes 3 miles from Bakewell an ideal location to explore The Peak National Park.

Dining rooms serving delicious lunches and dinner. 15 luxury bedrooms.

Box Office: 0845 127 2190 / Book tickets online: www.buxtonfestival.co.uk

2 Manchester Road Buxton, SK17 6SB 01298 71487 enquiries@ devonshirelodgeguesthouse.co.uk www.devonshirelodgeguesthouse.co.uk ETCbbbb Silver Award A friendly family-run guest-house. This fine Victorian house, located in the best area of Buxton, is just a 3 minute walk from the Opera House, Pavilion Gardens and main shopping precinct. B&B from £34 per person, based on 2 people sharing a double or twin room.

GRENDON GUEST-HOUSE Bishops Lane Buxton, SK17 6UN 01298 78831 www.grendonguesthouse.co.uk VB bbbbb Gold Award Situated a 15 minute stroll from the Pavilion Gardens and Opera House, Grendon offers the warmest of welcomes and top notch hospitality.

Spacious and luxurious en suite rooms with the most comfortable beds will ensure an excellent night’s rest. Award winning breakfasts and on site parking.

B&B £40–£50 per person for double occupancy. £65–£80 single occupancy.

HIGH CROFT GUEST-HOUSE High Croft Manchester Road Chapel-en-le-Frith SK23 9UH 01298 814843 www.highcroft-guesthouse.co.uk bbbbb Gold Award, Breakfast Award Michelin Recommended Just 10 minutes from Buxton, High Croft is an award-winning guest-house in 2 acres of peaceful, mature gardens adjoining golf course and Combs Reservoir with magnificent views – four beautiful en suite rooms, Sitting Room, elegant Dining Room, extensive breakfast menu. Prices from £40 per person.

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Spacious en suite rooms, comfortable beds, delicious breakfasts, friendly atmosphere, non-smoking, off-street car parking and only a short stroll across the Pavilion Gardens to the Opera House, plus restaurants and pubs all within a short walk. B&B from £40 per person per night.

ROSELEIGH GUEST-HOUSE 19 Broad Walk Buxton SK17 6JR 01298 24904 enquiries@roseleighhotel.co.uk www.roseleighhotel.co.uk Only a five minute scenic walk from the Buxton Opera House, located on Broadwalk this Victorian 14 bedroom, family run, non-smoking guest-house built in 1871 overlooks the Pavilion Gardens and ornamental lake of which the superb landscaping was developed between 1861 and the early 1870’s. Free residents’ parking for up to 10 cars. Please visit our webite for a comprehensive virtual tour. Bed & Breakfast from £40 per person based on two people sharing en suite double/twin rooms.

SELF CATERING ACCOMMODATION JOSEPH APARTMENT, THE SQUARE 3 The square Buxton, SK17 6AZ 07855 134362 jackie@josephapartment-thesquare.co.uk www.josephapartment-thesquare.co.uk Part of a historic former Georgian lodging house, this desirable, extremely spacious, first floor apartment is set within a grade II listed landmark of Buxton. Opposite the Opera House, Pavilion Gardens, views of the Devonshire Dome (Sleeps 8). Late offers available.

WHEELDON TREES FARM Earl Sterndale Buxton, SK17 0AA 01298 83219 stay@wheeldontreesfarm.co.uk www.wheeldontreesfarm.co.uk bbbb The perfect place … Enjoy outstanding comfort just ten minutes’ drive from the Opera House. Nine self-catering cottages in a stunning yet secluded location.

Derbyshire Breakfast Baskets, delicious home-made dishes, local steaks and lamb chops (all available on request).

STADEN GRANGE Staden Lane Buxton Derbyshire SK17 9RZ 01298 70404 info@stadengrange.co.uk www.stadengrange.co.uk VBbbbb Marvellous former farmhouse set in six acres of woodland and countryside.

Family owned friendly and welcoming.

1.5 miles from Buxton Centre. Views, walks, animals, plenty of parking. Self-catering and camping also available. Lounge with bar, tearoom, peaceful location.

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WHERE TO VISIT SIMPLY THAI 2–3 Cavendish Circus Buxton SK17 6AT 01298 24471

4 Terrace Road Buxton 01298 77480 www.greenpavilion.co.uk A stylish, fully licensed, café adjacent to the highly acclaimed Green Pavilion florists. Friendly relaxed atmosphere. Fresh food cooked daily. Enjoy lunch, brunch or a light snack made from wonderful local produce. Pre-theatre suppers available – see our daily specials boards for details.

Experience authentic Thai cuisine with genuine Thai hospitality.

Open all day from 12pm–11pm. Special lunch menu from 12pm–2.30pm and Afternoon Tea from 2.30pm–5pm.

RESTAURANT AT THE DOME Devonshire Dome Devonshire Road Buxton, SK17 6RY 01298 28345

COLUMBINE RESTAURANT 7 Hall Bank Buxton 01298 78752 dine@columbinerestaurant.co.uk www.columbinerestaurant.co.uk A small independent restaurant in three rooms over two floors – one ground, two cellar – we use fresh produce, local where possible, prepared and cooked to order. Pre- and post-theatre suppers are available by reservation.

The Devonshire Dome is the largest unsupported Dome in Europe and dominates the skyline of Buxton. Our restaurant offers a special contemporary three course dinner menu during the Festival at £26.95 per person. To book call 01298 28345.

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BUXTON MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY

Bookstore Brierlow Bar is not the Festival Bookseller this year, but we are still available for you to access thousands of books on a multitude of subjects at our unrivalled prices, for 7 days a week during your Festival visit.

DAVID MELLOR DESIGNS

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David Mellor The Round Building Hathersage, S32 1BA 01433 650220 www.davidmellordesign.co.uk

Poole’s Cavern & Buxton Country Park Green Lane, Buxton, SK17 9DH 01298 26978 info@poolescavern.co.uk www.poolescavern.co.uk A Visit England Quality Assured Visitor Attraction Explore Poole’s Cavern today. This natural curiosity is famous for the myriad of crystal formations. Discover the secret underground scenery of the Peak District. Back above ground take a stroll through Buxton Country Park woodlands to the hilltop viewpoint of Solomon’s Temple with spectacular views.

Visit the David Mellor Cutlery Factory, Design Museum & Country Shop for the best of modern tableware and kitchenware. Our Design Museum shows the historic collection of Mellor designs from tea spoons to traffic lights with our beautiful café alongside.

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Bookstore Brierlow Bar Ashbourne Road Near Buxton, SK17 9PY 01298 71017 info@bookstore-derbyshire.co.uk www.bookstore-uk.co.uk

Explore the geology, archaeology and creative spirit of the Peak District. The annual Derbyshire Open Art Exhibition showcases works by professional and amateur artists. Temporary exhibitions also showing: ‘Painted Tales’ by Sue Prince, ‘ From Life’ by Tony Hall.

01298 213541 louise@no6tearooms.co.uk www.no6tearooms.co.uk

Traditional English tearooms situated opposite the Opera House.

Special Festival fare pre-opera with Champagne. Booking advisable. Open 10am-7pm. Festival fare available 5.30–7pm.

OLD HALL HOTEL

BOOKSTORE BRIERLOW BAR

Terrace Road Buxton, SK17 6DA 01629 533540 buxton.museum@derbyshire.gov.uk www.derbyshire.gov.uk/buxtonmuseum

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We offer an extensive range of holidays for music lovers. These include our own exclusive opera and chamber music festivals on land and at sea, tours to leading festivals in Europe such as Schubertiade and the Sibelius Festival, and opera weekends in Verona, Venice and Milan.

We can also arrange independent holidays with tickets to every major opera house in Europe.

The 8th Kirker Ischia Music Festival

Old Hall Hotel, Restaurant and Wine Bar across the square from the Opera House – the perfect and very popular venue for pre- and post-opera meals. Restaurant open from 12pm – 2pm and then 5.15pm–11pm. Wine Bar open all day from 10am. Advanced bookings are advisable.

A seven Night Escorted Holiday | 14 October 2013

Join the Kungsbacka Piano Trio, Sarah-Jane Brandon and Simon Rowland-Jones on the idyllic island of Ischia for six exclusive concerts at La Mortella, the home of Sir William & Lady Walton.

Our concerts are held in the lovely concert hall overlooking the garden and the sea, next to the villa where the Waltons lived.We stay at the 4* Albergo San Montano in the small resort of Lacco Ameno, a few minutes drive from La Mortella with spectacular views overlooking the Bay of Naples.

Price from £1,998 for seven nights including flights, transfers, accommodation with breakfast, seven dinners, seven concerts and a full programme of sightseeing.

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Box Office: 0845 127 2190 / Book tickets online: www.buxtonfestival.co.uk

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PRICES & SEATING PLANS

SPECIAL OFFERS

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Only one offer per ticket. All offers are subject to availability.

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See four or more operas and save! Book tickets for four or more operas in stalls A–J or Dress Circle (Buxton Opera House only) and deduct £3 from the cost of each ticket.

Opera House Standby. Students, under 18s and those on JSA/Income Support may purchase any available seat for a performance at half price from 6.45pm on the day of performance (excludes Saturdays). Personal callers at the box office only.

Upper Circle Boxes

Groups of ten or more receive a 10% discount for all performances except Saturday evenings.

Church Parables Offer. Book all three Church Parables (in one booking) for £99 – a saving of £15.

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Boxes Gallery

Under 16s. Go half price to all performances.

Performances at the Opera House

Double Bill

Ottone in villa

La finta giardiniera

The Killing Flower

Fortunio

Stalls A–J K–N O–Q Dress Circle Boxes* Upper Circle Upper Circle Boxes Side seats Gallery

£ 48 41 31 58 41 41 20 15 20

£ 40 36 28 48 36 36 20 15 20

Opera Gala

£ 35 35 20 45 45 35 35 15 15

Under 30s – Festival for a Fiver From 1 June all available seats are £5 for under 30s.

Book at the Opera House box office or by phone.

Tickets must be collected from the box office and proof of age provided. Festival for a Fiver tickets cannot be purchased over the internet. Offer excludes Festival Friends’ Party and Festival Friends’ Lunch.

2013 Programme Book The indispensable guide to the Festival, with details of all performances and artists, and also articles and background information on the operas. Order in advance and collect at the Festival. £10 The Festival reserves the right to make alterations to the programme, although it is correct at the time of going to press. In accordance with standard theatre policy, latecomers will not be admitted until a suitable break in the performance.

Other performances (Tickets from the Opera House box office) Church Parables Opera Talks, Masses, The Whale, Titian on Tour & Storytelling Yurt Concerts Literary Events Walks, Cookery Demonstrations Friends’ Lunch Friends’ Party

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Help With Hearing There are a limited number of passive infra-red (PIR) systems in both the Opera House and Arts Centre.

These work through a special headset (rather than your hearing aid), which is available from the theatre – please reserve one when booking tickets (a £10 cash deposit is required). There is also an induction loop system at the counter in both Box Offices.

Facilities For People With Disabilities Please call the Festival office on 01298 70395 for information about facilities for disabled people at all Festival venues. We will do our best to facilitate your visit to the Festival.

BOOKING Box Office 0845 127 2190 (or 01298 72190) or in person at Buxton Opera House, Water Street, Buxton, SK17 6XN from 2 April.

Box Office Opening – Monday–Saturday 10am–8pm, Sunday 4pm–8pm On-line booking via www.buxtonfestival.co.uk from 2 April Tickets can be bought on the door half an hour before each event, unless sold out.

£38 (Special Price for all three Church Parables £99)

Refunds – tickets can neither be refund nor exchanged.

Box Office staff will try to resell tickets – a 10% administration fee will be charged.

Free £12–£19 £8.50 £6 £29 £15

Box Office: 0845 127 2190 / Book tickets online: www.buxtonfestival.co.uk

Wheelchair Users We are pleased to welcome people with disabilities.

The Opera House has three spaces for wheelchair users in the stalls. There are also spaces for wheelchair users at the Pavilion Arts Centre. Toilet facilities for the disabled are available in both venues. Essential companions who are Registered Carers or who are in receipt of Carers’ Allowance are admitted free (proof of eligibility will be required).

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