The venue for the talks will be in the beautiful Drawing Room, overlooking The Slopes and the Pump Room, at the Buxton Crescent Hotel. In view of the high demand anticipated for places, we recommend early booking.
This popular event returns to enhance your enjoyment of the Festival with in-depth introductions to three of this year’s Festival opera productions, with three highly knowledgable speakers.
10am
Arrival with tea, Coffee and Chefs choice of refreshments.
10.30am
LA TRAGÉDIE DE CARMEN
Speaker: Iwan Davies, Conductor and Music Director of BIF.
Peter Brook’s adaptation of Georges Bizet’s opera.
Premiered: 28 March, 2019, Wermland Opera, Sweden.
-Ten minute intermission-
11.30am
ERNANI
Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)
Speaker: Sami Fendall, Designer on Ernani
Premiered: 9 March 1844, La Fenice, Venice
– Ten minute intermission-
12.30pm
THE BOATSWAIN’S MATE.
Ethel Smyth (1858 – 1944)
Speaker: Nick Bond, Director and BIF Associate Board member
Premiered: March 1915, Frankfurt
-Ten minute intermission-
1.30pm Opera Discovery Day ends
NOTE: We reserve the right to make alterations to the programme or speakers as necessary due to unforeseen circumstances.