News & blog

Music, opera and books continue to entertain and inform during these strange times. In this blog post, BIF Board member Mark Sutherland, writes about the lockdown inspirations that have been lifting his spirits over the past 10 weeks.

Taxidermy, Jane Austen and English pastoral music all feature in this week’s Lockdown Inspirations as Book Festival Director, Victoria Dawson, shares the music and books that she’s been enjoying during the last six weeks. Is it is a good thing that we had printed and distributed our 2020 BIF brochure or a very terrible thing?

The Festival may be on hold, but a small group of BIF team members are still extremely active behind the scenes – gathering new ideas and revisiting old favourites.

In this new series of blog posts, we share the opera, music and books that are inspiring us during this unusual time.

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.