Buxton Festival brochure 2016

OPERA • MUSIC • BOOKS 8–24 JULY 2016 buxtonfestival.co.uk

DIARY FRIDAY 8 JULY

TUESDAY 12 JULY

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Opera Talk Festival Fanfare Leonore Opening Night Party

SATURDAY 9 JULY 10am 12 noon 2pm 4pm 6pm 7.15pm 9pm

Laura Dawes Gemma Lois Summerfield & Sebastian Wybrew Simon Bradley Kathryn Harkup & Hugh Fraser Opera Talk I Capuleti e i Montecchi The Versatility Serenaders

SUNDAY 10 JULY 10am 10.45am 12 noon 2pm 4pm 4pm 6pm 6pm 7.15pm 9pm

Laura Thompson Festival Mass Jackie Campbell David Crystal The Elias String Quartet Julia Bradbury Song at Six Opera Talk Tamerlano Jazz at the Movies

MONDAY 11 JULY 10.15am 12 noon 2pm 3.30pm 4.45pm 6pm 6pm 7.15pm

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Benjamin Wild Josep-Ramon Olivé & Ben Sau-Lau Ed Vulliamy Ensemble 10/10 Taylor Downing Song at Six Opera Talk La Sena Festeggiante

Trevor Royle Festival Walk White Camelia Josephine Wilkinson La Serenissima Thomas Pakenham Song at Six Opera Talk Leonore

WEDNESDAY 13 JULY 10.15am 12 noon 1.45pm 3.30pm 5pm 5pm 6pm 6pm 7.15pm

Claire Harman Deborah Calland & Iain Farrington Philip Eade The Lawson Trio Paul Cartledge Organ Recital Song at Six Opera Talk I Capuleti e i Montecchi

THURSDAY 14 JULY 10.15am 12 noon 2pm 2pm 3.30pm 6pm 6pm 7.15pm 9pm

Sarah Raven Duo Antipodes Anna Hope Scenes from an Opera – I Capuleti e i Montecchi Stephen Kovacevich Song at Six Opera Talk Tamerlano I Got Gershwin with Robert Habermann

FRIDAY 15 JULY 10.15am 12 noon 2pm 3.30pm 6pm 6pm 7.15pm 9pm

Tiffany Jenkins Roderick Williams & Gary Matthewman Peter Hennessy & James Jinks The Chilingirian Quartet Song at Six Opera Talk Leonore The Alex Yellowlees Band

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Alexei Sayle The Magical Storytelling Yurt Anne Sophie Duprels & Antoine Palloc Gareth Williams Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet Song at Six Opera Talk I Capuleti e i Montecchi Tir Eolas

SUNDAY 17 JULY 10am 11.15am 12 noon 12 noon 1.15pm 2.30pm 5.45pm 7.30pm

Andrew Dickson Festival Mass Festival Walk Joo Yeon Sir & Irina Andrievsky Opera Talk Tamerlano Festival Friends’ Dinner Manchester Chamber Choir

MONDAY 18 JULY 10am 12 noon 2.15pm 3.30pm 5pm 6pm 6pm 7.15pm

Jo Baker The Schubert Ensemble George Goodwin Northern Chamber Orchestra Harry Freedman Song at Six Opera Talk The Golden Dragon

TUESDAY 19 JULY 10am 12 noon 2pm 2.15pm 4.30pm 6pm 6pm 7.15pm

Melvyn Bragg Angela Hewitt Scenes from an Opera – Tamerlano Janet Ellis Hathaway – Eight Arias for a Bardic Life Song at Six Opera Talk Leonore

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Andrew Lownie The Jubilee Quartet Festival Walk Opera Talk I Capuleti e i Montecchi An Evening of Murder with Dr Lucy Worsley The English Concert

THURSDAY 21 JULY 10.15am 12 noon 2pm 2pm 3.30pm 4.45pm 5pm 6pm 6pm 7.15pm 9pm

Paula Hawkins James Gilchrist & Anna Tilbrook Matthew Oates Scenes from an Opera – Leonore Lionel Handy & Jennifer Hughes Virginia Baily Anna Lapwood Song at Six Opera Talk Tamerlano Digby Fairweather’s Half Dozen

FRIDAY 22 JULY 10.15am 12 noon 2pm 3.30pm 6pm 6pm 7.15pm 9pm 9.45pm

D J Taylor Nicky Spence & Simon Lepper Anne Sebba Breaking The Rules Song at Six Opera Talk Leonore Paprika Festival Friends’ Party

SATURDAY 23 JULY 10am 12 noon 2pm 3.30pm 4.45pm 6pm 6pm 7.15pm

Vince Cable The Formidable Frau Flora Fraser Lauren Scott Trio Jeremy Lewis Song at Six Opera Talk I Capuleti e i Montecchi

SUNDAY 24 JULY 11.15am 12 noon

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SPONSORS AND FUNDERS Corporate Partners

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SUPPORTERS Buxton Festival is supported by: THE FRIENDS OF BUXTON FESTIVAL Brooke-Taylors Solicitors

Pure Buxton

Buxton Antiques Fair

Royal Northern College of Music

Chethams School of Music

The Green Pavilion Florist

Hewson & Howson Chartered Accountants

The Idlewild Trust

Midland Hotel Manchester

The Kathleen Ferrier Awards

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The Oldie

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LEONORE LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827) An opera in three acts Libretto by Joseph von Sonnleithner.

Sung in German, with English side-titles A Buxton Festival production with the Buxton Festival Chorus and Northern Chamber Orchestra With her husband Florestan held as a political prisoner, his wife Leonore goes to work in the prison, disguised as a young gaoler, Fidelio, in an attempt to discover if he is held there. The governor of the prison, Don Pizarro, decides to kill Florestan before the arrival of Don Fernando, a government minister, forcing her into ever more desperate action.

Beethoven’s first version of the opera that would become Fidelio.

Kirstin Sharpin Leonore, Florestan’s wife, disguised as Fidelio David Danholt Florestan, a prisoner Scott Wilde Rocco, gaoler Kristy Swift Marzelline, his daughter

Stephen Barlow Conductor Stephen Medcalf Director Francis O’Connor Designer Simon Corder Lighting Designer

Stuart Laing Jacquino, assistant to Rocco Hrolfur Saemundsson Don Pizarro, governor of the prison Jonathan Best Don Fernando, minister and nobleman

Buxton Opera House Friday 8, Tuesday 12, Friday 15, Tuesday 19 & Friday 22 July 7.15pm Tickets: £21–£68

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I CAPULETI E I MONTECCHI

Luis Gomes Tebaldo, betrothed to Giulietta

VINCENZO BELLINI (1801–35) Tragedia lirica in two acts Libretto by Felice Romani. Sung in Italian, with English side-titles A Buxton Festival production with the Buxton Festival Chorus and Northern Chamber Orchestra In the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we present Bellini’s variation on the Romeo and Juliet love story, owing as much to Italian source material as to the Bard.

Set against the background of a feud between two warring clans, the Montecchi (led by Romeo) and the Capuleti (led by Capellio), Romeo falls in love with Capellio’s daughter, Giulietta, but the enmity between their tribes leads them both to tragedy.

Justin Doyle Conductor Harry Fehr Director

Stephanie Marshall Romeo, head of the Montecchi

Yannis Thavoris Designer

Sarah-Jane Brandon Giulietta, in love with Romeo

Simon Corder Lighting Designer

Jonathan Best Capellio, chief of the Capuleti, father of Giulietta Julian Tovey Lorenzo, doctor and retainer of the Capuleti Buxton Opera House Saturday 9, Wednesday 13, Saturday 16 & Saturday 23 July 7.15pm Wednesday 20 July 2.30pm

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TAMERLANO GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685–1759) An opera in three acts Libretto by Nicola Francesca Haym, adapted from Agostin Piovene’s Tamerlano. Sung in Italian with English side-titles A Buxton Festival production with the Buxton Festival Chorus and The English Concert The Tartar emperor Tamerlano spares the life of his prisoner, Turkish Sultan Bajazet, thanks to the intervention of Bajazet’s daughter, Asteria. Obsessed with her, Tamerlano sets about trying to win her for himself, by palming off his betrothed, Irene to Greek prince Andronico (himself in love with Asteria), in a drama of power, passion and betrayal.

Rupert Enticknap Tamerlano, Emperor of the Tartars Paul Nilon Bajazet, Sultan of the Turks Owen Willetts Andronico, Greek prince

Laurence Cummings Conductor Francis Matthews Director Adrian Linford Designer Simon Corder Lighting Designer

Marie Lys Asteria, Bajazet’s daughter Catherine Hopper Irene, Princess of Trebizond, betrothed to Tamerlano Robert Davies Leone, friend of Andronico and Tamerlano

Buxton Opera House Sunday 10, Thursday 14 & Thursday 21 July 7.15pm Sunday 17 July 2.30pm Tickets: £21–£68

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LA SENA FESTEGGIANTE

ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678–1741) A concert performance by La Serenissima Libretto by Domenico Lalli (1679–1741). A serenata sung in Italian with English side-titles La Sena Festeggiante was the product of a collaboration between Venice’s Red Priest and the Neapolitan Nicolò Sebastiano Biancardi, alias Domenico Lalli, bigamist and embezzler. The work was one of around eight serenatas by Vivaldi (an opera-cantata hybrid) and was composed for the name day of King Louis XV in 1725. The three characters sing praises to the French King in what is Vivaldi’s most Gallic work. The piece shows Vivaldi at the absolute height of his powers and serves as an excellent introduction for anyone wanting to learn more about Vivaldi opera, in the hands of award-winning interpreters La Serenissima.

Ailish Tynan L’Età dell Oro (The Golden Age)

Adrian Chandler Director/Violin

Hilary Summers La Virtù (Virtue) Henry Waddington La Sena (The River Seine)

Buxton Opera House Monday 11 July 7.15pm Tickets: £16–£46

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THE GOLDEN DRAGON

PETER EÖTVÖS (b.1944)

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A Music Theatre Wales production. UK Premiere.

Sung in English Music Theatre Wales returns to Buxton Festival with the UK premiere of another thrilling new opera, brought to life with their characteristic theatrical flair and musical virtuosity.

Llio Evans Lucy Schaufer Andrew MacKenzie-Wicks Andrew Kennedy Johnny Herford

Michael Rafferty Conductor Michael McCarthy Director Simon Banham Designer Ace McCarron Lighting Designer

Set in a Pan-Asian restaurant found in any city anywhere, The Golden Dragon is a compelling fable of modern life – funny, shocking and touching in equal measure.

Migration, exploitation, hopes and lost dreams are all here. At the heart of this East-meets-West tale, is the discovery of a decayed tooth in a bowl of soup. It belongs to a kitchen ‘boy’, a long way from home and with no papers. He’s also looking for his sister, but she’s been forced into a very different kind of service just next door…

Reviewing The Killing Flower at Buxton Festival in 2013, Opera magazine enthused: ‘Arguably the most significant event at Buxton this year was Salvatore Sciarrino’s Luci Mie Traditrici, given by Music Theatre Wales as The Killing Flower… The festival cannot be too highly praised for securing one of the most important first UK performances of recent years.’

Buxton Opera House Monday 18 July 7.15pm Tickets: £16–£51

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FRIDAY 8 JULY OPENING NIGHT And so the 38th Buxton Festival opens with Beethoven’s opera, Leonore – Fidelio in the composer’s first version, which I am convinced is a more powerful and inspired work than the later revisions which were the consequence of the otherwise intransigent composer’s weakness in the face of pressure from his friends and critics. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to delve into Beethoven’s morality tale which in this first version is fuller, more touching and has a wider focus on ordinary life and more lofty ideals. Partnered with Bellini’s sublime version of the Romeo and Juliet story, and Handel’s Tamerlano with The English Concert in the pit conducted by Laurence Cummings, this is a trio of opera productions not to be missed.

This Festival once more brings as ever the very best of artists such as Stephen Kovacevic and Angela Hewitt, The Chillingirian and Elias string quartets, Schubert Ensemble, English Concert and La Serenissima, Roderick Williams, James Gilchrist and Nicky Spence in recital, alongside an always intriguing mix of authors and commentators. Quality and variety are hand in hand with entertainment of the first order this summer in the lovely spa town, where opera, song, analysis and comment will thrill and move you.

Stephen Barlow Artistic Director

OPERA TALK 6pm–6.30pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £2.50 Fascinating insights into the creation of this year’s operas.

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OPENING NIGHT OPERA

LEONORE 7.15pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £21–£68 (see p.6)

FESTIVAL FANFARE

OPENING NIGHT PARTY

6.45pm Opera House forecourt Free

From 9.45pm Pavilion Café Tickets: £10

Buxton Festival 2016 gets off to a rousing start with a brand-new fanfare, specially composed by the Festival’s Artistic Director, Stephen Barlow.

Following tonight’s performance of Leonore, why not join us for a celebration in the Pavilion Café, where you can mix with your friends and members of the Festival company, grab a drink and enjoy live music.

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SATURDAY 9 JULY

TODAY IS BUXTON CARNIVAL DAY 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

GEMMA LOIS SUMMERFIELD soprano SEBASTIAN WYBREW piano 12 noon–1pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £15

LAURA DAWES Fighting Fit: The Wartime Battle for Britain’s Health 10am–11am Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10.50 At the beginning of the Second World War, medical experts predicted epidemics of physical and mental illness on the home front. Rationing would decimate the nation’s health, they warned; drugs, blood and medical resources would be in short supply; air raid shelters and evacuation would spread diseases; and the psychological effects of bombing raids would leave mental hospitals overflowing.

Yet, astonishingly, Britain ended the war in better health than ever before. Laura Dawes reveals an extraordinary, forgotten story of medical triumph against the odds.

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Mendelssohn Neue Liebe Die Liebende Schreibt Winterlied Fanny Mendelssohn Die Mainacht Mendelssohn Suleika Hexenlied (Andres Laienlied) Debussy Ariettes Oubliées Richard Strauss Four Lieder, Op 27 Described a ‘pure vocal champagne’ at the 2015 Kathleen Ferrier Awards, soprano Gemma Lois Summerfield swept the board, winning both the prestigious First Prize and the Loveday Song Prize. Gemma joined the Royal College of Music International Opera School in September 2015 and subsequently performed the role of Rosalinda Die Fledermaus (RCMIOS). During her Masters in Performance (RCM) Gemma played First Lady Die Zauberflöte (RCMIOS); Donna Elvira Don Giovanni (Rye Arts Festival); Annina La traviata (Rye Arts Festival); and La ChauveSouris and Une Pastourelle L’enfant et les sortileges (RCMIOS); also playing Vixen, Musetta, Ludmilla and Ilia in scenes from The Cunning Little Vixen, La bohème, The Bartered Bride and Idomeneo respectively. Sebastian Wybrew gives recitals with some of the UK’s most high-profile singers including Dame Felicity Lott, Ian Bostridge and Christopher Maltman.

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SIMON BRADLEY The Railways: Nation, Network & People

Britain’s railways have been a vital part of national life for nearly 200 years. Transforming lives and landscapes, they have left their mark on everything from timekeeping to tourism.

As a self-contained world governed by distinctive rules and traditions, the network also exerts a fascination all its own.

Simon Bradley takes us on a journey through time and space, weaving from this network a remarkable story of technological achievement, of architecture and engineering, of shifting social classes and gender relations, of safety and crime, of tourism and the changing world of work.

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TONIGHT’S OPERA

I CAPULETI E I MONTECCHI 7.15pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £21–£68 (see p.7)

KATHRYN HARKUP & HUGH FRASER A is for Arsenic

Music in the Café

4pm–5pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10.50

9pm–10.30pm Pavilion Café Tickets: £20

With gunshots or stabbings the cause of death is obvious, but not so with poisons. Agatha Christie used poison to kill her characters more often than any other murder method, with the poison itself being a central part of the novel. Her choice of deadly substances was far from random; the chemical and physiological characteristics of each poison provide vital clues to discovery of the murderer. Christie fan and research chemist Kathryn Harkup talks to Hugh Fraser, best known for his role as Colonel Hastings opposite David Suchet’s Poirot and himself a crime novelist, of the thriller Harm, about Christie’s novels and investigates the poison (or poisons) the murderer used.

The Versatility Serenaders synthesise styles and features of music that co-existed in the early 20th century but were rarely heard together: the dance crazes of the 1900s and 1910s (cakewalk, Hawaiian, ragtime, chorinho, tango and blues), the ever growing clamour of Tin Pan Alley and music hall; the songs of the First World War; the high-energy, freewheeling musical mayhem called Jass, (later Jazz) and the poignancy and sophistication of the music of the late Victorian era.

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SUNDAY 10 JULY LAURA THOMPSON Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters 10am–11am Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10.50 Laura Thompson presents the contrasting lives of the Mitford sisters – stylish, scandalous and tragic by turns – holding up a mirror to upper-class life before and after the Second World War. The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolised Hitler and shot herself when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; the sixth became Duchess of Devonshire.

Born into country-house privilege in the early years of the 20th century, they became prominent as ‘bright young things’ in the high society of interwar London. Then, the shadows crept over 1930s Europe, the stark – and very public – differences in their outlooks came to symbolise the political polarities of a dangerous decade.

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FESTIVAL MASS Mozart Missa Brevis in C, K220 With Buxton Musical Society and Orchestra and soloists from the Buxton Festival Chorus Conducted by Michael Williams 10.45am–12 noon St John’s Church Free To be recorded by the BBC for future broadcast.

JACKIE CAMPBELL piano 12 noon–1pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £15

DAVID CRYSTAL How was Shakespeare pronounced?

2pm–3pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10.50 The way words are pronounced in the works of Shakespeare has long caused puzzlement and controversy. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream ‘gone’ rhymes with ‘alone’, ‘anon’, ‘moane’, ‘none’, ‘on’, ‘Oberon’ and ‘upon’.

Elsewhere ‘war’ rhymes with ‘jar’ and ‘far’ but never with ‘more’ or ‘shore’. World famous writer, editor, lecturer and broadcaster on language, David Crystal talks about his new Dictionary of Shakespearean Pronunciation; the evidence for this pronunciation and how his work is used in productions of Shakespeare and that of other Elizabethan and Jacobean writers.

Bach Prelude and Fugue in C sharp major, Book 2, BWV 872 Beethoven Sonata, Op 2 No 2 in A major Scriabin Préludes, Op 11, Nos 10, 15, and 11 Chopin Étude, Op 10 No 3 in E major Chopin Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor, Op 39 Chopin Études, Op 25 No 5 in E minor and Op 10 No 11 in E flat major Debussy Prélude Book 2 No 12 (Feux d’artifice) Ravel Miroirs, mov 2: Oiseaux tristes Rachmaninoff Étude-tableau, Op 39 No 9 in D major Jackie Campbell joined the Yamaha Keyboard School in Altrincham at the age of three and moved on to studying the piano two years later. He has studied piano under Mr Simon Bottomley of Chetham’s since the age of five. At six years of age, Jackie was offered a Government music scholarship to study at Chetham’s School of Music, and he joined the school two years later. He gave his first public performance at the age of six. Since then he has performed in Scotland, Cumbria, the north-west, Oxford, London, and some parts of Europe. In 2011, Jackie gave a solo performance in the Lang Lang Massed Piano Day at the Royal Festival Hall.

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THE ELIAS STRING QUARTET

6pm–6.30pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £2.50 (see p.11)

4pm–5.30pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £20 Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 76 No 5 Britten String Quartet No 3 Mendelssohn String Quartet in A minor, Op 13 The Elias String Quartet returns to Buxton following their hugely popular appearance last year. The Ensemble was chosen to participate in BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists’ scheme and was also a recipient of a 2010 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. It has performed at some of the world’s most prestigious chamber venues, including New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Washington Library of Congress, the Vienna Musikverein, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Wigmore Hall in London. They recently returned to the US for a tour with Jonathan Biss, visiting Napa Valley, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Kansas City and New York.

TONIGHT’S OPERA

TAMERLANO 7.15pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £21–£68 (see p.8)

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JAZZ AT THE MOVIES 9pm–10.30pm Pavilion Café Tickets: £20

JULIA BRADBURY Unforgettable Walks 4pm–5pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £12.50 To accompany her primetime ITV series, Best Walks with a View, Julia Bradbury takes us on eight of the UK’s best-loved walks, showcasing the beauty of Britain and navigating through the sights and sounds, the flora and fauna and the past and present of eight fascinating and relaxing paths. She explores who walkers are and how walking across a landscape brings its people together, and shows how even those who don’t live in the countryside are never more than a train ride away from stunning natural beauty.

A SONG AT SIX 6pm–6.10pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand Free

Jazz at the Movies is a unique jazz group formed specifically to interpret movie themes and soundtrack songs taken from a wide-range of silver screen sources both familiar and obscure. Their refined dramatic and jazz sensibilities produce sounds that celebrate the meeting point of songcraft and swingcraft. With a reputation for vibrant music, deep repertoire and droll presentation, JATM have become a regular sell-out at Ronnie Scott’s, St James Theatre, the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room and many jazz clubs, theatres and Arts Centres throughout the UK.

Enjoy an al fresco Song at Six with members of the Festival Chorus.

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MONDAY 11 JULY BENJAMIN WILD Cecil Beaton: A Life in Fashion

JOSEP-RAMON OLIVÉ baritone BEN SAU-LAU piano

10.15am–11.15am Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10.50 Benjamin Wild presents a lively and informative study of Cecil Beaton’s style, which kept evolving over the decades, driving and reflecting the transitions in men’s fashion that followed the Second World War. From the moment he arrived at Cambridge University in 1922 wearing an evening jacket, red shoes, black-and-white trousers, and a large cravat, to his appearance nearly 40 years later at Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball, Beaton expressed a flamboyant sartorial nonchalance.

Drawing on unpublished records and interviews with Beaton’s former tailors, Benjamin Wild delightfully scrutinises Beaton’s approach to fashion as well as his influence on designers such as Giles Deacon and Dries van Noten.

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12 noon–1pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £15 Richard Strauss Zueignung, Morgen, Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten, Allerseelen Mahler Rückert-Lieder Ravel Histoires naturelles Enric Morera Cançons de carrer Born in Barcelona, Josep-Ramon Olivé has recently been awarded the 2nd Prize at the 20th International Singing Competition of Mâcon, the Paul Hamburger Prize and the 2nd Prize at the 7th International Singing Competition of Balaguer. He has recorded for Alia-Vox, Columna Música, Phaedra and Musièpoca labels, and participated in renowned young singers’ academies such as the Académie Baroque Européenne d’Ambronay and the Proyecto Pedagógico of the Teatro Real of Madrid. He is a current member of the Capella Reial de Catalunya conducted by Jordi Savall. Ben Sau-Lau was an organ scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, graduating with a first-class degree with distinction in Music. He went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he completed a Masters degree in piano accompaniment with distinction and is currently a trainee répétiteur on the opera course.

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TAYLOR DOWNING Breakdown: Shell Shock on the Somme 4.45pm–5.45pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10.50

ED VULLIAMY The War is Dead, Long Live the War

ENSEMBLE 10/10 Clark Rundell conductor 3.30pm–4.30pm St John’s Church Tickets: £15

2pm–3pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10.50 11 July 1996 is the date of the worst single massacre on European soil since the Second World War, when more than 8000 men and boys were killed in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnia War. The search still continues for the remains of over 1000 who have yet to be found and identified. Ed Vulliamy is a British journalist and writer who has covered the wars in Northern Ireland, former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Colombia and Mexico. In 1996 he became the first journalist to testify at an international crimes court, the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, and in 2011 he testified in the trial against Radovan Karadžić in The Hague. The War is Dead, Long Live the War is a tribute to some of the survivors of the Bosnian War, and Ed ponders the reasons why the British Government was so willing to appease the Serbian generals who were later tried for genocide.

Britten Sinfonietta, Op 1 Nigel Osborne Bosnian Voices The contemporary ensemble of Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Ensemble 10/10 present a new work by Nigel Osborne written to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Srebrenica, a collection of songs composed by people of all faiths and backgrounds from the town.

He arranges songs by rock ‘n’ rollers sent unwillingly to war, by women who were raped and abused, by families of victims, by people missing the solidarity of former Yugoslavia, by Roma passing by, and by children looking for beauty and hope.

A SONG AT SIX 6pm–6.10pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand Free (see p.15)

One hundred years on from the Battle of the Somme, Taylor Downing tells the unusual and little-known story of shell shock in one of the bloodiest battles ever fought by the British army.

He follows units and individuals from signing up to the Pals Battalions of 1914, through to the horrors of their experiences on the Somme which led to the shell shock that, unrelated to weakness or cowardice, left the men unable to continue fighting.

He shines a light on the official – and brutal – response to the epidemic. It was, they believed, a form of hysteria. It was contagious. And it had to be stopped. Taylor Downing brings an entirely new perspective to bear on one of the iconic battles of the First World War.

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TUESDAY 12 JULY TREVOR ROYLE Culloden: Scotland’s Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire 10am–11am Gardens Marquee Tickets: £10.50 The Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne and the English Royal Army. But this wasn’t just a conflict between the Scots and the English, the battle was also part of a much larger campaign to protect the British Isles from the growing threat of a French invasion. Trevor Royle’s lively and provocative history looks afresh at the period and unveils the battle’s true significance, as the beginning of a new global power, as the Royal Army, galvanised by its success, expanded dramatically to fight campaigns overseas in order to secure British interests.

FESTIVAL WALK Buxton: Its Background and Beauty 12 noon–1.15pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand Tickets: £6 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.

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WHITE CAMELIA – THE STORY OF A COURTESAN

JOSEPHINE WILKINSON Katherine Howard

Sarah-Jane Brandon soprano Gareth Brynmor John baritone Audrey Hyland piano

2pm–3pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10.50

12 noon–1pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £15

The traditional story of Henry VIII’s fifth queen dwells on her sexual exploits before she married the king, and her execution is seen as her just dessert for having led an abominable life. However, the true story of Katherine Howard could not be more different. Josephine Wilkinson asserts that, far from being a dark tale of court factionalism and conspiracy, Katherine’s story is one of child abuse, family ambition, religious conflict and political and sexual intrigue. It is also a tragic love story. A bright, kind and intelligent young woman, little more than a child in a man’s world, she was the tragic victim of those who held positions of authority over her, and from whose influence she was never able to escape.

Massenet Gavotte Richard Strauss Heimliche Aufforderung Duparc Chanson Triste Hahn L’heure exquise Schumann Ich bin dein Baum Schumann Entfleh mit mir De Falla Polo De Falla Asturiana Richard Strauss Ach lieb, ich muss nun schieden Rachmaninoff Ah, forsake me not Schubert Am Bach im Früling Brahms Immer leise Schumann Meine Rose Quilter Music when soft voices die Richard Strauss Morgen Schubert Abschied von der Erde Follow the emotional journey of a young courtesan as she chooses a life of true love over her previous empty and flirtatious existence.

Sorrow comes along in the shape of her lover’s father, who, unbeknownst to his son, pleads with her to give up his son due to the shame her past life is bringing on the family, and in particular his daughter who is about to marry into an influential family.

She is faced with the difficult choice of love over duty. On the journey, we travel through a myriad of songs from Strauss to Duparc, to De Falla and Schumann.

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THOMAS PAKENHAM The Company of Trees 4.45pm–5.45pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10.50 Acclaimed historian and bestselling author Thomas Pakenham recounts his personal quest to establish a large arboretum at his family estate, Tullynally, his forays to other tree-filled parks and plantations, his often hazardous seed-hunting expeditions, and his efforts to preserve magnificent old trees and historic woodlands. He tells of his travels to the Tibetan border in search of a magnolia (magnolias are Pakenham’s particular passion) and to Eastern Patagonia to see the last remaining giants of the monkey puzzle tree; the terrible storms breaking the backs of majestic trees which have stood sentinel for hundreds of years, or a fire in the 50-acre peat bog on Tullynally; his fear of climate change and disease, or the sturdy young sapling which gave him hope for the future.

LA SERENISSIMA 3.15pm–4.45pm St John’s Church Tickets: £20

Vivaldi Concerto III for strings & continuo in D, RV 124, Op 12 Bach Trio III for violin, viola & continuo in D, BWV 527 Leclair Sonata II for 2 violins & continuo in B flat, Op 4 Bach Trio V for violin, viola & continuo in C, BWV 527 Telemann Sonata for 2 violins, viola and continuo in B flat, TWV 51.B2 Bach Overture for strings & continuo in G, BWV 1070

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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.

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WEDNESDAY 13 JULY CLAIRE HARMAN Charlotte Brontë

DEBORAH CALLAND trumpet IAIN FARRINGTON organ

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On the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, literary biographer Claire Harman presents the story of a literary visionary, a feminist trailblazer and the driving force behind the whole Brontë family. She encouraged her sister Emily to publish Wuthering Heights when no-one else believed in her talent.

She took charge of the family’s precarious finances when her brilliant but feckless brother Branwell succumbed to opium addiction. She travelled from Yorkshire to Europe to the bright lights of London, met some of the most brilliant literary minds of her generation, and became a bestselling female author in a world still dominated by men.

In each of her books, Charlotte created brand new kinds of heroines, inspired by herself and her life, fiercely intelligent women burning with hidden passions.

Handel Overture to Atalanta Telemann Concerto in D Bach solo work tbc Gershwin Three Songs Iain Farrington Live Wire Sean McCarthy Concert Variations on ‘Duane Street’

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Deborah Calland has given trumpet and organ recitals in the USA, France, Germany, Denmark, Finland and Iceland, as well as venues throughout the United Kingdom, and has performed concertos with, among others, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the Virtuosi di Kuhmo (Finland) and the Britten Sinfonia. She has also appeared as a recitalist at many of the major festivals in England, such as the Cheltenham and City of London.

Iain Farrington has an exceptionally busy career as a pianist, organist, composer and arranger. He has performed at all of the major UK venues as well as abroad, and played at the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics. He has worked with many of the country’s leading musicians, including Bryn Terfel, Lesley Garrett and Sir Mark Elder, and performs regularly as a soloist, accompanist and chamber musician. His compositions and arrangements have been performed at the BBC Proms, the Royal Wedding 2011 and across the world.

PHILIP EADE Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited 1.45pm–2.45pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10.50 In the 50th anniversary of the death of Evelyn Waugh, Philip Eade presents some of the most revealing and in some cases unknown events of his 63 years: his difficult relationship with his embarrassingly sentimental father and favoured elder brother, and the burning ambition they inadvertently provoked in him; his love affair with Alastair Graham at Oxford; his disastrous first marriage to Evelyn Gardner and its complicated annulment; his momentous conversion to Roman Catholicism; his complex interest in the aristocracy, and what the aristocrats made of him; his chequered wartime career; his nervous breakdown; his unconventional attitude to his six children; his sharp tongue; his devastating wit; his egomania; and the love, fear and loathing that he variously inspired.

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THE LAWSON TRIO The Musical Legacy of Lili and Nadia Boulanger 3.30pm–4.30pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £15 Philip Glass Head-On Lili Boulanger D’un matin de printemps Copland ‘Vitebsk, Study on Jewish Themes’ Nadia Boulanger ‘Vite et Nerveusement Rythmé’ from 3 Pieces for Cello and Piano Lili Boulanger D’un soir triste Virgil Thompson Tango Lullaby, a Portrait of Mlle. Alvarez de Toledo (from Three Portraits – arr. Violin & Piano) Piazzolla Tango Revolucionario A composer with a strikingly original musical voice, Lili Boulanger was the first woman to win France’s prestigious composition competition, the ‘Prix de Rome’. After her tragically early death in 1918 at the age of 24, her sister Nadia dedicated her life to promoting Lili’s work, and to a career of teaching and conducting. She inspired a remarkably diverse generation of composers and musical thinkers, who shaped many new directions in 20th century music-making.

Looking towards this poignant centenary, The Lawson Trio explores the Boulangers’ music, alongside some of the composers who were enriched by Nadia’s wisdom and encouragement for finding one’s own musical voice.

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PAUL CARTLEDGE Democracy Ancient & Modern: Get a Life!

5pm–6pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10.50 Democracy as a system of government is either aspired to as a goal or cherished as a birthright by billions of people throughout the world. But few know anything of its roots in the ancient Greek world, or what differences there are between what we call democracy, and what the Greeks would have understood by it. Paul Cartledge explores how the ‘people power’ of the Athenians emerged and how it has been constantly reconstituted and reinvented ever since.

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A SONG AT SIX 6pm–6.10pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand Free (see p.15)

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I CAPULETI E I MONTECCHI 7.15pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £21–£68 (see p.7)

5pm–6pm St John’s Church Tickets: £12 A recital on the four manual Hill organ in the glorious acoustic of St John’s Church from a leading Cambridge organ scholar.

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THURSDAY 14 JULY SARAH RAVEN Good Good Food 10.15am–11.15am Buxton Opera House Tickets: £12.50 Sarah Raven is not only an inspirational cook, but she was also a doctor and has a wealth of medical training and knowledge behind her. Now she brings together her unique talents to offer a magnificent canon of recipes, sharing her medical knowledge to explain exactly how and why certain foods help protect your body and give you the best possible chance of a longer, healthier life. Woven through this are 100 mini ‘superfood’ biographies, where Sarah draws on her expertise and experience to explain the science behind good-for-you ingredients such as kale, broccoli, salmon, red wine, blueberries, apples and seeds.

DUO ANTIPODES Manus Noble guitar Jehanne Bastoni cello 12 noon–1pm St John’s Church Tickets: £15 Boccherini La musica notturna delle Strada di Madrid Piazzolla Café 1930, Nightclub 1960 De Falla Nana (Suite Populaire Espagnole) Granados Andaluza De Falla Asturiana (Suite Populaire Espagnole) Joe Hisaishi Howl’s Moving Castle Arvo Pärt Spiegel im Spiegel Manus Noble Delay Irish guitarist Manus Noble gave his debut performance at the Cadogan Hall, London at the age of 19. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Music with Distinction, Noble has launched his career in the UK with great success, giving recitals and masterclasses at festivals such as West Dean, Cheltenham Guitar Festival, Bath International Guitar Festival, Beechwood Guitar Course and London International Guitar Festival.

Australian cellist Jehanne Bastoni has performed solo, chamber and orchestral concerts in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Italy, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, and has participated in festivals such as the Cambridge International String Academy, and the International Menuhin Academy Summer School, Switzerland.

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STEPHEN KOVACEVICH piano 3.30pm–5pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £30

ANNA HOPE The Ballroom

Berg Piano Sonata, Op 1 Bach Partita No 4 in D Major, BWV828 Schubert Piano Sonata No 20 in A Major, D959

2pm–3pm Gardens Marquee Tickets: £10.50 Actress turned novelist Anna Hope presents her latest novel, the follow-up to the critically acclaimed Wake. The Ballroom is set in 1911: inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors, where men and women are kept apart by high walls and barred windows, there is a vast and beautiful ballroom. For one bright evening every week the inmates come together and dance. When John and Ella meet it is a dance that will change their two lives forever. Set over the heatwave summer of 1911, the end of the Edwardian era, The Ballroom is a tale of unlikely love and dangerous obsession, of madness and sanity, and of who gets to decide which is which.

SCENES FROM AN OPERA I Capuleti e i Montecchi 2pm–3pm Palace Hotel Tickets: £12

A SONG AT SIX 6pm–6.10pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand Free (see p.15)

Members of the Buxton Festival Chorus, who are understudying parts in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, present an entertainment of scenes from the opera, in an exciting new interpretation from the production’s assistant director.

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Stephen Kovacevich is one of piano’s most searching interpreters, winning him unsurpassed admiration for his playing of Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart and Schubert. Born in Los Angeles, Stephen Kovacevich made his concert debut as a pianist at the age of 11. When he was 18 he moved to England to study with Dame Myra Hess. Since then his international reputation has been built both on his concert appearances, renowned for their thoughtfulness and re-creative intensity, and on the highly acclaimed recordings he has made throughout his career. He has appeared with many of the world’s finest orchestras and conductors including Colin Davis, Hans Graf, Bernard Haitink, Kurt Masur, Simon Rattle and Georg Solti.

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TAMERLANO 7.15pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £21–£68 (see p.8)

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I GOT GERSHWIN with Robert Habermann Pavilion Café 9pm–10.30pm Tickets: £20 With songs including I Got Rhythm, They Can’t Take That Away From Me, Our Love is Here to Stay, Summertime and many more, acclaimed singer Robert Habermann presents the life story and songs of the immortal George Gershwin – starting out as a song plugger, then in 1919 writing his huge hit Swanee on a bus in 20 minutes; his lifelong collaboration with his brother Ira, with whom he wrote many great songs and shows, his one opera Porgy and Bess, in a fantastically prolific but tragically short life.

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FRIDAY 15 JULY TIFFANY JENKINS Keeping their Marbles 10.15am–11.15am Gardens Marquee Tickets: £10.50 The fabulous collections housed in the world’s most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan in New York have little idea that many of the objects on display were acquired by coercion or theft. Tiffany Jenkins tells the bloody story of how western museums came to acquire these objects, why repatriation claims have soared in recent decades and how the guilt and insecurity of the museums themselves that have stoked the demands for return.

She also shows that sending artefacts back will not achieve the desired social change nor repair the wounds of history.

RODERICK WILLIAMS baritone GARY MATTHEWMAN piano 12 noon–1pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £20 A selection of Schubert songs from 1815–24 with settings of Schiller, Schober and Claudius.

An die Freude (Schiller) D189 Laura am Klavier (Schiller) D388 Klage um Ali Bey (Claudius) D496a Bei dem Grab meines Vaters (Claudius) D496 Am Grabe Anselmos (Claudius) D504 An eine Quelle (Claudius) D530 Täglich zu singen (Claudius) D533 Am Bach im Frühling (Schober) D361 Trost im Liede (Schober) D546 An die Musik (Schober) D547 Sehnsucht (Schiller) D636 Pax Vobiscum (Schober) D661 Todesmusik (Schober) D758 Der Pilgrim (Schiller) D794 Dithyrambe (Schiller) D801 One of Buxton Festival’s most popular visitors, Roderick Williams encompasses a wide repertoire, from baroque to contemporary music, in the opera house, on the concert platform and in recital. He enjoys relationships with all the major UK opera houses and is particularly associated with the baritone roles of Mozart. Gary Matthewman is a regular artist at Wigmore Hall, with other recent and forthcoming appearances include Carnegie Hall, the Musikverein in Vienna and the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

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PETER HENNESSY & JAMES JINKS The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945

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Peter Hennessy & James Jinks present the first authoritative history of the Submarine Service from the end of the Second World War to the present. Dramatic episodes are revealed for the first time: how HMS Warspite gathered intelligence against the Soviet Navy’s latest ballistic-missilecarrying submarine in the late 1960s; how HMS Sovereign made what is probably the longest-ever trail of a Soviet (or Russian) submarine in 1978; how HMS Trafalgar followed an exceptionally quiet Soviet Victor III, probably commanded by a Captain known as ‘the Prince of Darkness’, in 1986. In 1990 the Cold War ended – but not the Submarine Service.

It remains the last line of national defence, with the awesome responsibility of carrying Britain’s nuclear deterrent.

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THE CHILINGIRIAN QUARTET 3.30pm–5pm St John’s Church Tickets: £20 Haydn String Quartet in C, Op 54 No 2 Bartók String Quartet No 3 Dvorˇák String Quartet No 13 in G, Op 106 The Chilingirian Quartet is one of the world’s most celebrated and widely-traveled ensembles, renowned for its thrilling interpretations of the great quartets – and commanding performances of the contemporary repertoire. The Quartet is composed of Levon Chilingirian (violin), Stephen Orton (cello), Ronald Birks (violin), and Susie Mészáros (viola) – highly accomplished musicians who blend four distinct voices into a single extraordinary sound. It is a sound that critics around the world have heralded as ‘balanced’, ‘passionate’, ‘warm’, ‘subtle’, and ‘dynamic’. The Quartet has built an extensive and criticallyacclaimed discography of works

by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Bartók, Dvořák, and other major composers as well as groundbreaking recordings of masterworks by contemporary composers such as Michael Tippett, John Tavener, Hugh Wood, and Michael Berkeley.

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LEONORE 7.15pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £21–£68 (see p.6)

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THE ALEX YELLOWLEES BAND 9pm–10.30pm Pavilion Café Tickets: £20 Alex Yellowlees and his band make a welcome return to Buxton. 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! Not to be missed!

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SATURDAY 16 JULY ALEXEI SAYLE in conversation with Mike Neary Thatcher Stole My Trousers 10am–11am Buxton Opera House Tickets: £12.50 In 1971 comedians on the working men’s club circuit imagined that they would be free to go on telling their tired, racist, misogynistic gags forever. But their nemesis, a 19-year-old Marxist art student with a bizarre concern for the health of British manufacturing was slowly coming to meet them. Alexei Sayle follows up his acclaimed memoir Stalin Ate My Homework and chronicles a time when comedy and politics came together in electrifying ways. Alexei recounts the opening season of the Comedy Store, his experiences with alternative cabaret, The Comic Strip and The Young Ones, and his friendships with the comedians who, like him would soon become household names, in a unique and beguiling blend of social history and memoir.

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.

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ANNE SOPHIE DUPRELS soprano ANTOINE PALLOC piano 12 noon–1pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £15 Messiaen Poemes pour Mi and songs by Debussy and Satie Anne Sophie Duprels 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.

Recent appearances and future plans include Cio Cio San Madama Butterfly (New Zealand Opera‚ Edmonton Opera‚ Canada‚ Scottish Opera‚ Opera Holland Park and Opera North)‚ Salud La vida breve and Suor Angelica (Opera North)‚ Mélisande Pelléas et Mélisande and title role Manon (Teatro Colón‚ Buenos Aires)‚ title role Iris‚ Giorgetta Il tabarro and title role Suor Angelica (Opera Holland Park)‚ La voix humaine and Cio Cio San (Opéra de Tours)‚ title role Thaïs (Theater Lübeck and São Carlos‚ Portugal)‚ Rusalka (Scottish Opera)‚ Hilda in Reyer’s Sigurd (Geneva Opera)‚ La voix humaine, Julie The Jacobin and Léna La princesse jaune (Buxton Festival)‚ Rusalka (title role) and Lisa Pique Dame (Grange Park Opera). She has performed recitals and concerts across Europe.

Antoine Palloc is from Nice, where he studied with Catherine Collard and was awarded first prize in piano and chamber music. He has worked with many prestigious artists including Frederica Von Stade, Norah Amsellem, David Daniels, Mireille Delunsch, François Piolino, Bruce Ford, Alastair Miles, Patrizia Biccere, Majella Cullagh, Patricia Petibon Elizabeth Vidal, Cristina Gallardo-Domas, and Jennifer Larmore.

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KALEIDOSCOPE SAXOPHONE QUARTET 3.30pm–5pm St John’s Church Tickets: £20

GARETH WILLIAMS in conversation with Mike Neary A Monstrous Commotion 2pm–3pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10.50 The Loch Ness Monster: a creature that should have died out with the dinosaurs, or a legend built on hoaxes and wishful thinking?

Sir Peter Scott, internationally renowned naturalist and president of the World Wildlife Fund, was convinced that the Monster existed. So were senior scientists at London’s Natural History Museum and Chicago University; they lost their jobs because they refused to renounce their belief in the creature.

Drawing extensively on new material, Gareth Williams takes a wholly original look at what really happened in Loch Ness.

A SONG AT SIX 6pm–6.10pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand Free (see p.15)

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The Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet is an innovative collaboration between four creative young artists: award-winning saxophonist and composer John Rittipo-Moore; multifaceted musician and photographer/ film-maker Ian Dingle; folk and jazz-influenced saxophonist Guy Passey; and award-winning chamber musician and soloist Sally MacTaggart.

Trained at top UK conservatoires including the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Northern College of Music, the Quartet’s work had led to multiple awards and high profile performances at venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and Bridgewater Hall.

The group’s 2016 schedule includes launching their groundbreaking debut album, Music in the Café and performing at festivals TIR EOLAS across the UK and Europe.

9pm–10.30pm Supported by Pavilion Café Tickets: £20

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I CAPULETI E I MONTECCHI 7.15pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £21–£68 (see p.7)

6pm–6.30pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £2.50 (see p.11)

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Grieg Holberg Suite, 1st movement (arr KSQ) Dvorˇák American Quartet, 1st movement (arr KSQ) Piazzolla Histoire du Tango, 1st & 2nd movements Michael Torke July Gershwin Three Preludes Paul Patterson Diversions

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Eclectic alternative-folk group Tir Eolas (Philippa Mercer – vocals/flutes, Laura Snowden – guitar/vocals, Ruairi Glasheen – percussion/vocals, Georgie Harris – viola/vocals and Hedi Pinkerfeld – bass/vocals) draw on their Celtic and English folk roots to create their unique combination of traditional folk and original material. Think virtuosic instrumentals, fivepart singing, guaranteed footstomping, and time-honoured folk ballads telling stories of love, loss and longing.

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SUNDAY 17 JULY FESTIVAL MASS Beethoven Mass in C With Buxton Musical Society and Orchestra and soloists from the Buxton Festival Chorus Conducted by Michael Williams 11.15am–12.30pm St John’s Church Free

FESTIVAL WALK Roman Buxton

ANDREW DICKSON Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys around Shakespeare’s Globe 10am–11am Gardens Marquee Tickets: £10.50 Andrew Dickson traverses centuries and continents to reveal Shakespeare and his works in a fantastic array of new guises. Anti-apartheid activist, Bollywood screenwriter, Nazi pin-up, hero of the Wild West: this is Shakespeare as you have never seen him before. From the 16th century Baltic to the American Revolution, from colonial India to the skyscrapers of modern-day Shanghai, Shakespeare’s plays appear at the most fascinating of times and in the most unexpected of places.

Dickson travelled across four continents to discover what it is about William Shakespeare that has made him at home in so many places around the globe.

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12 noon–1.30pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand Tickets: £6 Brian Shepherd leads this walk around the Roman sites of Buxton (or Aquae Arnemetiae as it was known), from the Celtic spiral mound to the Roman British temple base dedicated to Epona, goddess of horse racing, from the Gardens oval race track and the Roman grandstand to the Roman town centre.

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JOO YEON SIR violin IRINA ANDRIEVSKY piano 12 noon–1pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £15 Frolov Concert Fantasy on Porgy and Bess Beethoven Violin Sonata No 9 in A minor, Op 47 ‘Kreutzer’ Described by Strad Magazine as ‘exuberant… seductive… bravura’, Korean-born British violinist Joo Yeon Sir was winner of 2014 Arts Club Karl Jenkins Classical Music Award in association with Classic FM. She has won numerous awards from the Royal Philharmonic Society, Tillett Trust, Making Music, and Worshipful Company of Musicians, and has performed widely including at the Royal Albert Hall with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Sir Karl Jenkins, Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall and Fairfield Hall. Following studies with Dr Felix Andrievsky at the Purcell School of Music and at the Royal College of Music as Scholar, she also received the President’s Award presented by HRH the Prince of Wales and was Constant & Kit Lambert Junior Fellow 2014–15, presenting a sold-out concert series of the complete Beethoven’s 10 Sonatas for Violin and Piano. She is joined by her duo partner, Russianborn pianist Irina Andrievsky.

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FESTIVAL FRIENDS’ DINNER 5.45pm Old Hall Hotel Tickets: £35 Join the Friends of Buxton Festival for a 3-course dinner, in an opportunity to a break from the busy Festival schedule and relax with convivial company and great food.

2.30pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £21–£68 (see p.8)

MANCHESTER CHAMBER CHOIR Paul Spicer conductor 7.30pm–9.30pm St John’s Church Tickets: £25 Bach Der Geist hilft Lotti Crucifixus Purcell Remember not, Lord, our offences Whitacre When David heard G Gabrieli Jubilate Deo MacMillan Benedicimus Deum Caeli, The Canticle of Zachariah, Qui Meditabitur (from Strathclyde Motets Vol 2) Paul Mealor Let fall the windows of mine eyes (Shakespeare) Vaughan Williams Three Shakespeare Songs Bach Singet dem Herrn Formed in 2002, Manchester Chamber Choir is one of the UK’s most versatile and accomplished vocal ensembles. The choir regularly broadcasts on BBC television and radio, has sung at The Proms and performed with artists as diverse as The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Jarvis Cocker, Andrea Bocelli and The Pet Shop Boys! The Choir regularly appears on BBC Radio 4’s Daily Service and Sunday Worship and has sung on Radio 2’s Sunday Half Hour, Radio 5 Live’s Tony Livesey Show and BBC Television’s Songs of Praise.

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MONDAY 18 JULY THE SCHUBERT ENSEMBLE 12 noon–1.30pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £20 Mahler Piano Quartet Movement in A minor Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat, Op 47 Fauré Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor, Op 15

JO BAKER in conversation with Mike Neary A Country Road, A Tree 10am–11am Gardens Marquee Tickets: £10.50 Jo Baker, author of the bestselling Longbourn, which re-imagined Pride and Prejudice from the servants’ perspective, brings her latest book, based around the early life of Samuel Beckett.

Paris, 1939: the pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldier marching along the Champs Elysées. A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart.

Soon, he will put his own life and those of his loved ones in mortal danger by joining the Resistance.

Spies, artists, deprivation, danger and passion: this is a story of life at the edges of human experience, and of how one man came to translate it all into art.

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Since its first concert in January 1983 the Schubert Ensemble has established itself as one of the world’s leading exponents of music for piano and strings.

The ensemble has performed in over 40 different countries, it has over 80 commissions to its name, has recorded over 30 critically acclaimed CDs and is familiar to British audiences through regular broadcasts on BBC Radio 3. In the past few years the Ensemble has enjoyed a busy international schedule, with performances in Romania, Norway, Spain, Holland, Bermuda, the UAE and the USA, as well as a first visit to China.

The Ensemble has also released recordings for the Chandos label of works by Martinů, Fauré, Enescu and Dvořák, all of which have been widely praised.

GEORGE GOODWIN Benjamin Franklin in London 2.15pm–3.15pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10.50 For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin was a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made his fortune in Philadelphia and established his fame as a renowned experimental scientist, he crossed the Atlantic to live as a gentleman in the heaving metropolis of London.

He mixed with both the brilliant and the powerful, whether in London coffee house clubs, at the Royal Society, or on his summer travels around the British Isles and continental Europe. However, the early 1760s saw Britain’s elevation to global superpower status with victory in the Seven Years War and the succession of the young, active George III, bringing a sharp new edge to political competition in London and redefining the relationship between Britain and its colonies.

With his unique focus on the fullness of Benjamin Franklin’s life in London, George Goodwin has created an enthralling portrait of the man, the city and the age.

‘outstanding in every respect’ – Guardian

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NORTHERN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Nicholas Ward violin Kenny Sturgeon oboe 3.30pm–5pm St John’s Church Tickets: £20 Corelli Concerto Grosso, Op 6 No 3 Tippett Little Music for Strings Bellini Oboe Concerto Elgar Serenade for Strings Vaughan Williams Cavatina (Symphony No 8) Bach Concerto for Violin and Oboe Formed in the late 1960s and based in Manchester, Buxton Festival’s orchestra-in-residence, the NCO is now one of the country’s top, professional chamber orchestras, with its concerts and recordings warmly received by critics. The members of the orchestra are distinguished chamber musicians who regularly appear as soloists.

Described as being ‘Simply world-class’ by Opera magazine, the orchestra, which has over 30, critically-acclaimed recordings to its name, regularly works with esteemed international artists.

A SONG AT SIX 6pm–6.10pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand Free (see p.15)

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HARRY FREEDMAN The Murderous History of Bible Translations 5pm–6pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10.50 The Bible has been translated far more than any other book.

To our minds it is self-evident that believers would want to read their sacred literature in a language they understand. But the history of Bible translations is far more contentious than reason would suggest, underlying an astonishing number of religious conflicts that have plagued the world.

Harry Freedman describes brilliantly the passions and strong emotions that arise when deeply held religious convictions are threatened or undermined – a struggle for authority and orthodoxy in a world where temporal power was always subjugated to the divine.

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TUESDAY 19 JULY MELVYN BRAGG Now Is The Time 10am–11am Buxton Opera House Tickets: £12.50 Melvyn Bragg talks about his gripping historical novel, Now Is The Time, described by The Times as ‘a vivid and surprisingly tender tribute to one of the wildest moments in Plantagenet history’.

Now Is The Time is set in 1381 when a vast force of common people – led by Walter Tyler and the priest John Ball – marched on London, protesting against unfair taxes, the corruption of those in power, and the unacceptable wealth of the Church. The Peasants’ Revolt was the biggest rebellion in English history, and for about three intense, violent weeks, it looked as if they would sweep all before them. The novel is a powerful re-telling of this extraordinary episode and captures all the drama, passion, patriotism and anger of that time.

ANGELA HEWITT piano 12 noon–1.30pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £30 Bach The complete Two-Part Inventions, BWV 772–86 Beethoven Sonata in D minor, Op 31 No 2 (‘Tempest’) Scarlatti Three Sonatas Bach The complete Three-Part Inventions, BWV 787–801 Haydn Fantasia in C major, Hob XVII/4 One of the world’s leading pianists, Angela Hewitt regularly appears in recital and with major orchestras throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia. Her performances and recordings of Bach have drawn particular praise, marking her out as one of the composer’s foremost interpreters of our time. Angela has recently performed with orchestras including The Cleveland, Toronto Symphony, Philharmonia, and Oslo Philharmonic orchestras and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

Recital highlights of the 2013–14 season include concerts at Seoul Arts Centre, Tokyo’s Oji Hall and Nagoya’s Shirakawa Hall; Glasgow’s City Halls and The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh; Wimbledon Music Festival, Sociedad Filarmónica de Bilbao, the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco, and De Doelen, Rotterdam; as well as several appearances at Wigmore Hall, London. Angela Hewitt also undertook a tour of Australia for Musica Viva, performing recitals in cities including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth.

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JANET ELLIS in conversation with Mike Neary The Butcher’s Hook 2.15pm–3.15pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10.50

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Janet Ellis talks about her journey from actress and TV presenter to author and introduces her debut novel. At 19, Anne Jaccob is awakened to the possibility of joy when she meets Fub, the butcher’s apprentice, and begins to imagine a life of passion with him. Anne is a determined young woman, with an idiosyncratic moral compass. In the matter of pursuing her own happiness, she shows no fear or hesitation.

Even if it means getting a little blood on her hands. A vivid and surprising tale, The Butcher’s Hook brims with the colour and atmosphere of Georgian London, as seen through the eyes of a strange and memorable young woman.

SCENES FROM AN OPERA Tamerlano 2pm–3pm Palace Hotel Tickets: £12 Members of the Buxton Festival Chorus, who are understudying parts in Tamerlano, present an entertainment of scenes from the opera, in an exciting new interpretation from the production’s assistant director.

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Eight Arias for a Bardic Life Elin Pritchard soprano Ella Marchment director Noah Mosley piano Briar-Kit Esme writer A co-production with Helios Collective 4.30pm–5.30pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £15 Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare and mother to their three children, sits in the parlour of New Place, Stratford-uponAvon, Warwickshire – the family’s home for the last 19 years. Her only son, Hamnet, has been dead some 20 years. Her two daughters, Susanna and Judith, have both married and fledged.

Her husband, England’s greatest ever dramatist, hasn’t written a play for three years. And now, he never will. It is 23 April 1616.

St George’s Day. And William Shakespeare is dead. Anne Hathaway is alone in the world.

She speaks into the blackened silence: ‘Was he, or was he not?

That is the question.’ Starring Elin Pritchard (Lucia in Buxton’s 2015 Festival production of Lucia di Lammermoor), this piece weaves together Shakespearian operatic arias and songs from across opera’s history including Purcell, Gonoud, Berlioz, Verdi and more.

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OPERA TALK 6pm–6.30pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £2.50 (see p.11)

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LEONORE 7.15pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £21–£68 (see p.6)

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WEDNESDAY 20 JULY ANDREW LOWNIE Stalin’s Englishman: The Life of Guy Burgess 10.15am–11.15am Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10.50 Guy Burgess was the most important, complex and fascinating of ‘The Cambridge Spies’ – Maclean, Philby, Blunt – all brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers.

Andrew Lownie shows us how even Burgess’s chaotic personal life of drunken philandering did nothing to stop his penetration and betrayal of the British Intelligence Service. Even when he was under suspicion, the fabled charm which had enabled many close personal relationships with influential Establishment figures (including Winston Churchill) prevented his exposure as a spy for many years.

THE JUBILEE QUARTET 12 noon–1pm St John’s Church Tickets: £15 Janácˇek String Quartet No 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ Webern Langsamer Satz for String Quartet Beethoven String Quartet No 11 in F minor ‘Serioso’ First prize winners of the Val Tidone International Chamber Music Competition 2010 and the St Martin’s Chamber Music Competition 2013, Second prize winners of the Karol Szymanowski International String Quartet Competition 2014, and third prize winners of the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition 2013, the Jubilee Quartet was formed in 2006 at the Royal Academy of Music, London.

They held a Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellowship at the Academy during 2012–13, and the Richard Carne Junior Fellowship at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance during 2013–14. The Quartet are award winners of the Tillett Trust ‘Young Artists’ Platform’; the Park Lane Group ‘Young Artists’; the Hattori Foundation; the Worshipful Company of Musicians ‘Concordia Foundation Artists Fund’; and are recipients of the Philharmonia MMSF ‘Charles Henderson Ensemble Award’ and the Eaton Square ‘St Peter’s Prize’ 2014.

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FESTIVAL WALK Roman Buxton 12 noon–1.30pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand Tickets: £6 (see p.28)

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THE ENGLISH CONCERT Laurence Cummings conductor 7.30pm–9.30pm St John’s Church Tickets: £25 Godfather, Father and Son Telemann Tafelmusik Suite in B flat major CPE Bach Symphony No 5 in B minor, Wq182/5 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5, BWV 1050 Telemann Concerto for flute and oboe d’amore Viola d’amore and strings Bach Orchestral Suite No 1 in C major, BWV 1066

An illustrated tour through the dark story of our fascination with murder, with Dr Lucy Worsley, BBC TV presenter, renowned historian and Chief Curator at the charity Historic Royal Palaces. She’ll examine some notorious crimes and criminals, but also explain how murder became a form of middle-class entertainment through novels, plays, paintings, and the press, starting with a horrific early 19th century serial-killer in the East End of London, and ending with the tame drawing-room dramas of Agatha Christie.

The English Concert is one of Europe’s leading chamber orchestras specialising in historically informed performance. The English Concert has a wide touring brief and the 2014–15 season saw them appear across the UK and abroad. Recent highlights include European and US tours with Alice Coote, Joyce DiDonato, David Daniels and Andreas Scholl as well as the orchestra’s first tour to mainland China. Harry Bicket directed The English Concert and Choir in Bach’s Mass in B Minor at the 2012 Leipzig Bachfest and later that year at the BBC Proms, a performance that was televised for BBC4.

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THURSDAY 21 JULY JAMES GILCHRIST tenor ANNA TILBROOK piano 12 noon–1.30pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £20 Schumann Liederkreis, Op 24 Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel Schumann Dichterliebe

PAULA HAWKINS in conversation with Mike Neary The Girl on the Train 10.15am–11.15am Buxton Opera House Tickets: £12.50 Author Paula Hawkins discusses her Number One Bestseller, the most talked-about novel of 2015. Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning.

She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She’s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. ‘Jess and Jason’, she calls them. Their life – as she sees it – is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. And then she sees something shocking. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she’s only watched from afar…

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James Gilchrist began his working life as a doctor, turning to a full-time career in music in 1996. Recent highlights have included Britten’s Church Parables with performances in St Petersburg, London, Buxton and at the Aldeburgh Festival, Handel’s L’Allegro il Penseroso ed il Moderato with the Mark Morris Dance Group at the Teatro Real, Madrid, Solomon with Les Violons du Roy, Schumann’s Paradies und die Peri and Die Schöpfung at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Britten’s Nocturne with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo and War Requiem with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.

As the Evangelist in Bach’s great Passions of St John and St Matthew, James is consistently recognised as ‘the finest Evangelist of his generation’. Anna Tilbrook is one of Britain’s most exciting pianists, with a considerable reputation in song recitals and chamber music. She has collaborated with many leading singers and instrumentalists including Willard White, Mark Padmore, Ian Bostridge, Barbara Bonney, Iestyn Davies, Natalie Clein, Nick Daniel and Jack Liebeck.

MATTHEW OATES In Pursuit of Butterflies 2pm–3pm Gardens Marquee Tickets: £10.50 Matthew Oates has led a butterflying life. Naturalist, conservationist and passionate lover of poetry, he has devoted himself to these exalted creatures: to their observation, to singing their praises, and to ensuring their survival. Based on 50 years of detailed diaries, Oates leads us with humour, zeal, digression, expertise and anecdote through a lifetime of butterflying, across the mountain tops, the peat bogs, sea cliffs, meadows, heaths, the chalk downs and great forests of the British Isles.

SCENES FROM AN OPERA Leonore 2pm–3pm Palace Hotel Tickets: £12 Members of the Buxton Festival Chorus, who are understudying parts in Leonore, present an entertainment of scenes from the opera, in an exciting new interpretation from the production’s assistant director.

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LIONEL HANDY cello JENNIFER HUGHES piano 3.30pm–4.30pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £15 Schumann 5 Stücke im Volkston, Op 102 Bax Folk-Tale Poulenc Sonata for Cello and Piano As a scholarship student at the Royal Academy of Music, Lionel Handy won all the prizes for cello and chamber music, including the prestigious Moir Carnegie Recital Diploma prize and Principal’s Prize. He was awarded first prize in the Muriel Taylor Competition by Jacqueline du Pre and with several other important scholarship awards he was able to continue his studies with Janos Starker in Banff and with Pierre Fournier in Geneva.

Lionel was principal cello with the Academy of St Martin-in-theFields for 10 years with whom he recorded extensively and toured the United States and Europe many times. Later as solo cellist with the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, he performed an eclectic range of concertos from CPE Bach and Boccherini to Tavener and Roxburgh. Much in demand as a chamber musician, Lionel has broadcast frequently for BBC Radio Three and European networks and has made numerous commercial recordings.

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VIRGINIA BAILY Early One Morning 4.45pm–5.45pm Gardens Marquee Tickets: £10.50 In Rome in 1943, two young women, complete strangers to each other, lock eyes for a single moment. One of the women, Chiara Ravello, is about to flee the occupied city for the safety of her grandparents’ house in the hills. The other has been herded on to a truck with her husband and their young children, and will shortly be driven off into the darkness. This epic novel is an unforgettably powerful, suspenseful, heartbreaking and inspiring tale of love, loss and war’s reverberations down the years. Bestselling author Virginia Baily talks about the creation of this passionate historical novel.

ANNA LAPWOOD Organ 5pm–6pm St John’s Church Tickets: £12 A recital on the four manual Hill organ in the glorious acoustic of St John’s Church by Anna Lapwood, Senior Organ Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford.

A SONG AT SIX 6pm–6.10pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand Free (see p.15)

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DIGBY FAIRWEATHER’S HALF DOZEN 9pm–10.30pm Pavilion Café Tickets: £20 To celebrate their 21st Birthday Party UK Tour Digby Fairweather’s Half Dozen bring their show ‘The Swing’s the Thing’ to Buxton Festival; an unforgettable evening of swinging sounds, favourite songs (sung by the ‘Four Fairweather Friends’), Latin jazz and gorgeous selections from the Great American and British Songbooks. Led by the legendary Digby, the Half Dozen in 2015 celebrated their ninth consecutive award for Top Small Group in the prestigious British Jazz Awards (and are currently nominated for their tenth!). ‘Even if you think you don’t like jazz,’ says Digby, ‘Come along and we promise you an unforgettable evening!’

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FRIDAY 22 JULY D J TAYLOR The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England since 1918 10.15am–11.15am Gardens Marquee Tickets: £10.50 What do we mean when we talk about ‘taste’? It takes countless forms: the exclusive taste of highbrow critics such as T S Eliot and F R Leavis; the taste of ordinary book lovers persuaded to buy the best-sellers of the day; and the taste of Virginia Woolf’s elusive ‘common reader’, a taste that in the days of the Victorian reading public was founded on shared standards but now, in the age of Twitter and the blogosphere, is fragmenting into chaos.

D J Taylor explores the myriad influences on English literary life in the past century and the way in which they have shaped our preferences.

ANNE SEBBA Les Parisiennes 2pm–3pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10.50 What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris during the years 1939–49? By looking at a wide range of individuals from collaborators to resisters, actresses and prostitutes to teachers and writers, native Parisian women and those living in Paris temporarily including American women and Nazi wives, muses and mothers, housewives and mistresses, fashion and jewellery designers, nurses, journalists and spies, Anne Sebba reveals truths about basic human instincts and desires.

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NICKY SPENCE tenor SIMON LEPPER piano As You Like It – Shakespeare Songs 12 noon–1pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £15 Quilter Three Shakespeare Songs, Op 6 Britten Fancie Poulenc Fancy, from The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 2 Chausson Trois chansons de Shakespeare, Op 28 Schubert An Sylvia Tippett Songs for Ariel, from The Tempest Purcell, arr Tippett/Bergmann An Epithalamium, from The Fairy Queen Haydn She never told her love Schubert Trinklied Wolf Lied des transferierten Zettel Geoffrey Bush It was a lover and his lass Mervyn Horder Under the Greenwood Tree John Dankworth Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s Day? Dunsinane Blues, after Macbeth Peter Dickinson Hark, hark, the lark Nominated by the International Opera Awards for Young Singer of the Year 2015 and one of ten artists up for 2015’s Times Breakthrough Awards at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards, Nicky Spence, who impressed Festival audiences in 2014 as Iago in Rossini’s Otello, returns with a programme of Shakespeare song, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death. On the opera stage, Nicky created the lead role in the world premiere of Two Boys (ENO, Metropolitan Opera).

Other highlights include his recent role debut as David Die Meistersingers von Nürnberg (ENO), a Rossini double at WNO, Števa Jenůfa (La Monnaie), Steuermann Der Fliegender Holländer (CBSO), and Don Ottavio Don Giovanni (New Zealand Opera).

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Nicholas Renton director Clare Norburn writer Cathy Boyes producer

The Marian Consort is a young, dynamic and internationally renowned early music vocal ensemble, recognised for its freshness of approach and innovative presentation of a broad range of repertoire. Known for its engaging performances and imaginative programming, the group draws its members from amongst the very best young singers on the early music scene today.

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The Marian Consort Finbar Lynch Gesualdo

In the 450th anniversary of his birth, we present this unique musical and theatrical experience on the life and work of composer and murder Carlo Gesualdo (1566–1613). It is the final day of Gesualdo’s life, as he comes to terms with his own mortality, knowing that he faces purgatory for the multitude of sins he has committed. He tries intoning religious platitudes but the only thing that can free him from the vision is listening to music – a number of pieces from Gesualdo’s monumental Tenebrae Responsories and a selection of his madrigals performed by the Marian Consort.

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Hailing from Romania, Serbia and the UK, Paprika unites traditional Eastern European, Balkan, Gypsy and classical music. The band has toured extensively across Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, and have featured at WOMAD festivals in the UK, Spain, Canary Islands and Abu Dhabi. Highlights have included concerts at the Purcell Room (Southbank Centre), Royal Albert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Glastonbury Festival, Edinburgh Fringe and EXIT festival.

OPERA TALK 6pm–6.30pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £2.50 (see p.11)

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LEONORE 7.15pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £21–£68 (see p.6)

FESTIVAL FRIENDS’ PARTY 9.45 pm Old Hall Hotel Tickets: £20 Join the Friends of Buxton Festival for drinks and good company in the perfect way to end an evening at the opera.

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SATURDAY 23 JULY VINCE CABLE After The Storm 10am–11am Buxton Opera House Tickets: £12.50 Vince Cable’s bestselling book, The Storm, explored and explained the causes of the 2008 world economic crisis and how Britain should respond to the great challenges it brought. In After the Storm, Cable, who was Business Secretary in the 2010–15 coalition government, provides a unique perspective on the state of the global financial markets and how the British economy has fared since 2008 and also an inside view of the coalition, and a carefully considered perspective on how the British economy should be managed over the next decade and beyond.

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THE FORMIDABLE FRAU: THE MARRIAGE OF RICHARD & PAULINE STRAUSS GILLIAN KEITH soprano SIMON LEPPER piano 12 noon–1pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £15 Domineering, moody, tactless and abrasive – that is how Pauline Strauss was often described by colleagues and friends of the family. And although Strauss himself allowed that her character was difficult, and that she was given to fits of rage and sudden ill temper, he was completely devoted to her. Many would say that she was his muse; and indeed, he wrote dozens of songs for her, often performing them with her in recital.

Soprano Gillian Keith and pianist Simon Lepper explore the often tempestuous, but always loving relationship between Richard and Pauline Strauss, illuminated by readings of letters and memoirs in an alluring programme of some of Strauss’ best-loved songs.

FESTIVAL WALK Buxton: Its Background and Beauty 12 noon–1.15pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand Tickets: £6 (see p.18)

FLORA FRASER George and Martha Washington 2pm–3pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10.50 George and Martha Washington were America’s original first couple. From its origins in 1760s Virginia to the forging of a new nation, Flora Fraser traces the development both personal and political of an extraordinary relationship, a union which owed its strength in equal measure to both parties. Martha Washington is today little known, but here, in a narrative enhanced by a close reading of personal, military and presidential papers, Flora Fraser brings her and her better-known husband to life afresh to connect a new generation with a man whose foibles were many but his aspirations to greatness more, and with a woman who, when tested, proved an ideal spouse to commander and president alike.

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A SONG AT SIX 6pm–6.10pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand Free (see p.15)

OPERA TALK 6pm–6.30pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £2.50 (see p.11)

LAUREN SCOTT TRIO TONIGHT’S OPERA

Lauren Scott harp Conrad Marshall flute Raymond Lester viola

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3.30pm–4.30pm St John’s Church Tickets: £15

7.15pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £21–£68 (see p.7)

Bax Elegiac Trio Debussy Syrinx Richard Rodney Bennett Sonata after Syrinx Debussy Sonata Lauren Scott has worked as guest principal harp with many of the UK’s leading orchestras and chamber groups. For over 20 years Conrad Marshall has been Principal Flute of the Northern Chamber Orchestra and as well as frequent performer as concerto soloist. Since 2001 he has been a member of the leading contemporary ensemble Psappha. Since leaving the Royal Northern College Raymond Lester has pursued a busy and varied performing career playing viola with many of the UK’s leading symphony and chamber orchestras taking him as far afield as Japan, South America and the Seychelles.

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JEREMY LEWIS David Astor 4.45pm–5.45pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10.50 Few newspaper editors are remembered beyond their lifetimes, but David Astor of the Observer is a great exception to the rule. He converted a staid, Conservative-supporting Sunday paper into essential reading, admired and envied for the quality of its writers and for its trenchant but fair-minded views. Growing up at Cliveden, Astor’s liberal-minded father was a constant support, but his relations with his mother, Nancy, were always embattled. George Orwell urged Astor to champion the decolonisation of Africa, and Nelson Mandela always acknowledged how much he owed to the Observer’s longstanding support. Oldie editor Jeremy Lewis looks back at the life of a good man and a great editor, who deserves to be better remembered.

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THE OLDIE LITERARY LUNCH Joan Bakewell on Stop the Clocks Richard Davenport-Hines on Edward VII David Aaronovitch on Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists 12 noon–3pm (Book signing 12 noon–1pm, Lunch 1pm) Old Hall Hotel Tickets: £62 What better way to wind up another great Festival experience, with The Oldie’s celebrated Literary Lunch – coming for the second time from Buxton.

Hosted by Jeremy Lewis, the Lunch welcomes three terrific authors with fascinating stories to tell.

Joan Bakewell shows no sign of slowing down as she recounts her fascinating life in her new autobiography. Joan looks back on her life as a teacher, broadcaster, journalist and a Baroness – amongst many other things – through a series of essays, and also assesses the world that she will leave behind.

Biographer and social historian Richard Davenport-Hines examines one of Britain’s most definitive rulers in his new book.

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reform, much to the despair of his stiff-lipped mother Queen Victoria.

Journalist David Aaronovitch recounts his memories of his early life and uncovers the secrets, shame and fears of British Communists in his new book. The memoir mixes social history with Marxist philosophy as Aaronovitch offers a compelling yet frank account of the Communist mindset of postwar Britain and his own family.

Roast tomato soup topped with basil oil Smoked salmon & prawn terrine, caper & raisin vinaigrette Summer country terrine, shaved pickled cucumber, spicy tomato jam, sea salt & black pepper flatbread • Roast sirloin of Derbyshire beef, Yorkshire pudding, gravy, selection of roast vegetables & potatoes Baked sea bass fillet with warm Nicoise Salad and pesto dressing

Supported by

Sun blushed tomato, olive & artichoke tagliatelle, pesto & parmesan cheese • Chocolate & hazelnut brownie, white chocolate sauce Lemon & honey panna cotta, strawberry compote Selection of cheese and accompaniments • Coffee served with petit fours

FESTIVAL MASS Richard Lloyd Hereford Service With Buxton Musical Society Choir Conducted by Michael Williams 11.15am–12.30pm St John’s Church Free

01298 72190 / Book tickets online: buxtonfestival.co.uk

With our specialist insurance, advice and support, we provide cover for commercial and residential heritage properties and fine art.

That’s the Ecclesiastical Advantage n We insure more grade I listed buildings than any other insurer. n We have been voted best insurer for heritage for the past 8 years by insurance brokers.* *FWD research 2014, 200 brokers voted us “the best� insurer for Charity, Education and Commercial Heritage because of our experience, market understanding and being a specialist.

Ecclesiastical is proud to sponsor the Buxton Festival, to find out more about us visit

www.ecclesiastical.com/heritagehub Ecclesiastical Insurance Office plc (EIO) Reg. No. 24869. Registered in England at Beaufort House, Brunswick Road, Gloucester, GL1 1JZ, UK. EIO is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority.

WELCOME TO THE PEAK DISTRICT & DERBYSHIRE Strike the right chord in the Peak District and Derbyshire – the perfect accompaniment for your musical and literary adventure during one of the UK’s most prestigious cultural festivals.

Hit the high notes thanks to a harmonious blend of breathtaking, specially-protected landscapes, peerless country houses, distinctive market towns and villages and pioneering industrial heritage.

From rugged gritstone moors to rolling limestone dales and lush meadows to leafy forests – and boasting Britain’s first National Park at its heart – the quality and variety of its countryside is second to none. Yet there’s much more to the area than the dramatic uplands of the Dark Peak and the gentler contours of the White Peak. Venture further afield to tune into well-kept ‘secrets’, such as Chesterfield , with its famous Crooked Spire, or the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site stretching from Cromford to Derby.

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Classic country houses range from majestic Chatsworth and medieval Haddon Hall to hidden gems such as Renishaw Hall & Gardens, Bolsover Castle, Tissington Hall & Gardens and National Trust properties – including Eyam Hall, Hardwick Hall and Lyme Park.

Celebrate the Year of the English Garden and the tri-centenary of the birth of landscaping legend Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown – who transformed Chatsworth’s parkland in the 18th century – throughout 2016, and look forward to Chatsworth’s first-ever RHS Flower Show, 7 to 11 June 2017.

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Handsome market towns – ideal for shopping, lunch and afternoon tea – include Ashbourne, Bakewell, Leek and Matlock/Matlock Bath.

Quintessentially English villages range from photogenic favourites such as Ashford in the Water, Edensor and Hartington to former hives of industry such as Cromford, or the ‘Plague Village’ of Eyam.

Dining out is also a delicious treat at everything from Michelinstarred Fischer’s Baslow Hall to cosy country pubs.

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There is a good range of accommodation in Buxton including historic hotels, friendly guest houses and B & Bs and award-winning self-catering accommodation. The Peak District also offers stunning country house hotels, dozens of self-catering options with beautiful views, village guest houses and rooms in quintessential English pubs.

We recommend you book your accommodation promptly to avoid disappointment during this busy time.

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For advice on accommodation and the many things you can enjoy and experience in the town and Peak District call the helpful team at: Buxton Tourist Information Centre Tel: 01298 25106 or visit www.visitpeakdistrict.co.uk www.visitbuxton.co.uk

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PRICES & SEATING PLANS Opera House

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Ticket prices for other events vary from show to show – please see individual show listings for details All seats in St John’s Church are bookable in advance.

Please note there is no disabled access to the Balcony.

All seats in the Gardens Marquee, Pavilion Café and Palace Hotel are unreserved.

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BOOKING

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Box Office 01298 72190 or in person at Buxton Opera House, Water Street, Buxton SK17 6XN from 29 March.

BOX OFFICE OPENING Monday–Saturday 10am–8pm Sunday 4pm–8pm. Online booking via buxtonfestival.co.uk from 29 March.

Tickets for venues other than the Opera House can be bought on the door half an hour before each event, unless sold out.

REFUNDS Tickets can neither be refunded nor exchanged. Box Office will try to resell tickets for sold-out events – a 10% administration fee will be charged.

TICKET PRICES AND FEES The advertised price of a ticket is the price that you pay: all ticket prices include any taxes, levies and booking fees. The cost of a ticket is made up of: – Deal Value: The face value of the ticket set by the Festival – Booking Fee: All tickets include a 7.5% Booking Fee. The fee goes towards the running cost of the BOH ticketing system, ticket printing, staffing and all credit, debit, cheque and cash handling costs. These fees help BOH to stay an effective business, which in turn helps them reinvest in their theatres and continually improve the services they provide – Restoration Levy: Buxton Opera House is an exquisitely beautiful Edwardian theatre and one of the country’s finest examples of Frank Matcham theatre design.

To help maintain and operate both the Opera House and Pavilion Arts Centre, the cost of tickets includes a restoration levy of £1 for tickets over £10 and 50p for tickets under £10. Tickets for other venues are exempt from the restoration levy.

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THE OPERA HOUSE The Opera House is an Edwardian building and only partially accessible to wheelchair users. The wheelchair entrance is 72cm at its narrowest point. There are three wheelchair spaces in the Stalls at ground floor level, and a specially adapted toilet.

Unfortunately the Stalls bar is not accessible by wheelchair, but a member of staff will gladly bring refreshments to your seat.

The Opera House Foyer and Box Office counter are not wheelchair accessible, but there is now wheelchair access to the side Box Office door (in Water St), with an intercom system to alert staff. The Dress Circle and Upper Circle levels are not wheelchair accessible and can only be reached by climbing the stairs. The building is not accessible by motorised scooter.

PAVILION ARTS CENTRE All parts of the Pavilion Arts Centre (and both St John’s Road entrances) are accessible by wheelchair, apart from the Main Room balcony.

EXTRA INFO MORNING DISCUSSIONS We will be holding a series of Morning Discussions, presented in association with the University of Derby, upstairs at the Old Clubhouse from 9am–10am during the Festival. Go to buxtonfestival. co.uk for further details as they are confirmed.

OPERA FINISH TIMES As our Festival Opera productions are created specifically for each Festival, we are unable to provide finish times of the operas at the time of going to press.

REFRESHMENTS AND DINING Refreshments are available for all events in St John’s Church where there is an interval. Afternoon tea and pre-opera dining are available with our partners at the Old Hall Hotel and Pavilion Gardens.

Afternoon Tea, with live music, is available in the Gardens Marquee between 1pm and 4pm on 11, 12, 13, 15, 18, 20 and 22 July. Book at www.paviliongardens.co.uk.

COMPANION TICKETS In both venues your safety is paramount. In an emergency, if you would have difficulty making your way out of the building on your own, we strongly advise that you bring a companion.

HELP WITH HEARING There is a passive infra-red (PIR) systems in both the Opera House and Pavilion Arts Centre for people with hearing impairments. This works through a special headset rather than your hearing aid, and is available from the theatre. Please reserve one when you book your tickets (a £10 cash deposit on the night is required). There is also an induction loop system at both Box Offices.

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

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

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

Opera House Standby. Full-time students 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.

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 online. Offer excludes Festival Friends’ Party and Festival Friends’ Lunch.

Late-night jazz. If you’ve been to the opera and would like to catch the remainder of the jazz concert in the Pavilion Café once the opera has finished, bring your opera ticket along and pay £5 for the jazz concert on the door (places subject to availability)

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FESTIVAL FRINGE The 2016 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 600 events at over 40 venues in and around Buxton, including a free afternoon sampler at the Pavilion Gardens on Sunday 10 July. 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 free printed programme and find out how to become a Fringe Friend.

For queries email info@buxtonfringe.org.uk or call 01298 70705 or text 07952 193 521

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

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.

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.

Please allow extra time if travelling by car on Carnival Day (9 July)

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

For more information www.nationalrail.co.uk / 08457 48 49 50 www.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk

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

For more information www.derbysbus.info www.traveline.org.uk / 0871 200 22 33 www.nationalexpress.com / 08717 81 81 81

By Air Regular national and international flights to Manchester and Nottingham East Midlands airports For more information www.manchesterairport.co.uk www.eastmidlandsairport.com

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INSPIRATIONAL SETTING

For Inspirational learning.

The University of Derby Buxton Campus provides unparalleled opportunities for real world learning in Sport & Outdoor, Events, Hospitality, Tourism, Spa and Wellness. With a work-ready focus, our degree courses ensure students go on to take roles with leading national and international employers.

Proud to sponsor the Buxton Festival

www.derby.ac.uk/buxtoncampus