New Buxton Festival Dates for 2021
Buxton International Festival is pleased to announce the opera and musical theatre programme for the 2021 Festival. The dates for 2021 have now been confirmed as:
Thursday 8th July – Sunday 25th July 2021
La donna del Lago
Music by Giochino Rossini, libretto by Andrea Leone Tortola
Adrian Kelly, Conductor
Jacopo Spirei, Director
Madeleine Boyd, Designer
Ben Pickersgill, Lighting Designer
Viva La Diva
Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Adapted from plays by Simeone Antonio Sografi, new English version by Kit Hesketh-Harvey
Iwan Davies, Conductor
Stephen Medcalf, Director
Yannis Thavoris, Designer
Kate Watson, Choreography
A Salzburg State Theatre production in association with Buxton International Festival
Acis and Galatea
Music by George Frideric Handel, libretto by John Gay
Christian Curnyn, Conductor
Martin Constantine, Director
Anisha Fields, Designer
A co-production with the Early Opera Company
A Little Night Music
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler
Wyn Davies, Conductor
Paul Kerryson, Director
Charles Cusick Smith & Phil R Daniels, Set and Costume Design
Ben Pickersgill, Lighting Designer
A Buxton Opera House and Buxton International Festival production
Original orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Suggested by a Film by Ingmar Bergman
Originally Produced and Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince
Performed by arrangement with Music Theatre International (Europe) Limited
Our Future, In Your Hands
Music by Kate Whitley, written by Laura Attridge
Tom Newall, Conductor
Mark Burns, Director
The opera oratorio, commissioned by Buxton International Festival, is in collaboration with Royal Overseas League
Thanks to the PRS Foundation, Granada Foundation, Golden Jubilee Trust (via ROSL), The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, Ida Carroll Trust, Borletti-Buitoni Trust, Samuel Gardner Memorial Trust, Andre Bernheim Trust, RVW Trust, The Michael Guest Charitable Foundation, Orchestras Live.
Thanks to members of the Our Future in Your Hands Syndicate, in memory of Emilie Schmid-Tröndle
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