News & blog

We have begun planning to bring you a stunning Festival in 2021.

We are devastated that we had to cancel BIF 2020 due to Covid-19 and we are working very hard to keep the Festival going.

It is with great regret that for the first time in forty years we must cancel the Buxton International Festival in July 2020.

With only weeks to go before the release of the 2020 programme, we are delighted to share the booking schedule with you.

Stuck for gifts this Christmas? Surprise a friend or family member with a Buxton International Festival gift voucher.

For the first time in its 40-year history, Buxton International Opera won the ‘Achievement Award in Opera’ at the annual UK Theatre Awards held at London’s Guildhall Sunday, 27 October.

The Observer reviews DJ Taylor’s Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature 1939-1951.

The Observer book of the week recently reviewed Colin Grant’s Home Coming and Amelia Gentleman’s The Windrush Betrayal.

Staging a scandal puts Buxton in the running for top UK Theatre Award

Not all Victorians’ values were bad — and Britain’s long-suffering workers would be better off if we’d listen to at least one of them, leading psychologist Professor Sir Cary Cooper has said.