News & blog

Buxton International Festival (BIF) is delighted to receive a Culture Recovery Fund grant, this is fantastic news and means we can re-engage creatives to work with us on our outreach work and activate plans for the 2021 festival.    “This grant is a life line to the creative team and all the artists we are

With only a week to go until the launch of BIF Digital 2020, Michael Williams, CEO of Buxton International Festival shares a special welcome message.

See the full programme for the BIF Digital 2020 Season which will take place 13-25 July 2020.

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

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.