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We’re delighted to announce the dates for the next Buxton International Festival will be 6-23 July 2023.

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Live music is just the ticket if you want to feel good, an audience survey found after a concert during last summer’s Buxton International Festival.

Our opera productions are coming to life in rehearsals and with time seeing to move in fast forward in the run up to the Festival, BIF CEO Michael Williams shares his reflections on this year’s two main operas and the themes that link them…

A host of West End Stars are heading to Buxton this summer for Buxton Opera House and BIF’s eagerly awaited production of Gypsy: A Musical Fable.

In response to the catastrophe faced by Ukraine’s people, BIF has added a special fundraising event to its summer programme, with Tom Tugendhat MP, Oliver Bullough and music from soprano Inna Husieva.

Art Historian Frances Spalding and biographer Jenny Uglow bring interwar art to BIF

Local schools join musicians from the RNCM and NCO for a resounding call to arms on the climate crisis.

Buxton is at the epicentre of the post-pandemic revolution in how we work, business expert Julia Hobsbawm believes.

Big band music is back big-time as the 2022 Buxton International Festival (BIF) celebrates the town’s tradition for live music and dancing.