2025 Festival Highlights

10 – 27 July 2025:
The 46th Buxton International Festival

Opera Highlights

This year, we honour Malcolm Fraser’s vision for his fledgling festival by staging a new production of Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet, last seen at the Opera House in 1980. At the same time, we look to the future of opera by commissioning four short operas and by continuing our collaboration with the Norwich Theatre Royal in a joint production of a Double Bill: Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and Poulenc’s La voix humaine. We are also thrilled to welcome the creative team from Opera Zuid in the Netherlands, presenting their sumptuous production of Mozart’s The Impresario, and Vache Baroque, making their festival debut with a sophisticated and charming production of Charpentier’s La descente d’Orphée aux enfers. Five operas, spanning five centuries.