News & blog

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.

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

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.

Taking part in Buxton International Festival’s opera The Orphans of Koombu will have inspired young people to make better choices about their future, said one the region’s Local Enterprise Partnership Enterprise coordinators.

Two centuries of John Ruskin’s influence over art and culture will be the topic of debate this October in Buxton — somewhere the writer famously said you shouldn’t be in a hurry to get to…

The cost of lying to the public needs to rise, politicians were warned by veteran BBC journalist Nick Robinson at Buxton International Festival.