Escape your everyday and join us for our summer spectacular from the 7 - 24 July. Public booking is now open across our opera, music, books and jazz series.
Europe’s 100 Best Cathedrals
Europe’s cathedrals are magnificent. Guardian columnist and former Chair of the National Trust Sir Simon Jenkins has travelled the continent to illuminate old favourites and highlight new discoveries.
Fri 8 July 2022
4.00pm - 5.00pm
Opera Talk: La donna del lago
Fri 8 July 2022
6.00pm - 6.30pm
Set in the 16th century Scottish Highlands, La donna del lago is an opera of love, loyalty and lochs. Based on the epic poem The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott,
Fri 8 - Fri 22 July 2022
2.00pm - 4.45pm
7.15pm - 10.00pm
This 18-piece big band features Emma Holcroft singing the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Peggy Lee, along with Big Band classics from the libraries of Count Basie and Woody Herman to name a few.
Fri 8 July 2022
7.30pm - 10.00pm
Graham Clark is a local jazz legend. His quartet will perform an original work written especially for this concert, inspired by living in Buxton for over twenty-five years.
Fri 8 July 2022
10.30pm - 12.30am
Three of Britain's foremost thinkers on nature join in conversation.
Sat 9 July 2022
10.00am - 11.00am
Celebrate all things trumpet! Solus's programme features revered composers of brass music including Gabrieli, Tomasi and Brandt, along with Ravel, Friedman and Britten.
Sat 9 July 2022
12.00pm - 1.00pm
Author, adventurer, academic and former Cabinet Minister Rory Stewart looks at Britain’s place in an unsettled world.
Sat 9 July 2022
12.30pm - 1.30pm
Gwilym Simcock, Mike Walker, Laurence Cottle and Ian Thomas are The Impossible Gentlemen, bringing 'world-class jazz' to the BIF Jazz Weekend.
Sat 9 July 2022
3.00pm - 5.00pm
BIF Jazz Day Ticket 9 July
Sat 9 July 2022
3.00pm - 12.00am