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Celebrity Recital - Sir Thomas
Allen
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Sir Thomas Allen is an established
star of the great opera houses of the world and has been
a friend of this Festival for almost 30 years
9 July at
7.15pm
Opera House
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Sir Thomas Allen masterclass
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An exceptional opportunity for members of
the Festival Company to work with Sir Thomas on opera
and recital material.
10 July at 1pm
Palace Hotel
£5 |
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Eclectica!
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Eclectica is a refreshing and exciting new ensemble,
comprising some of the UK’s leading jazz and classical
artists.
10 July at
3pm
Palace Hotel
£10 |
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Peter Hill
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Peter Hill plays Messiaen.
11 July at 1pm
Palace Hotel
£10 |
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Ann Murray with sinfonia ViVA
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Ann Murray, one of the UK’s best-loved
mezzos, with sinfonia ViVA at their most versatile.
11 July at 3pm
Palace Hotel
£16
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Opera workshops
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With
Patrick Mason, Andrew Greenwood and the Festival Company
Opera House
£5
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Lucy Wakeford and Siobhan Grealy -
SOLD OUT
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Set in
typical Peak District rolling hills, the tiny and
welcoming historic church at King Sterndale is the venue
for this intimate recital.
12 July at 2pm
King Sterndale Church
£10
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Testament of Youth -
SOLD OUT: additional
show July 12, 12.30pm
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Following
Shirley Williams’ morning talk, Rohan McCullough performs
her remarkable tour de force about Shirley’s mother and one
of Buxton’s most famous daughters.
12
July at
2.45pm
Devonshire Dome
£10 |
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Three into one will go -
SOLD OUT
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The Festival’s
Triple Bill includes rarely seen works by Vaughan Williams
and Holst.
12 July at
5pm
Devonshire Dome
£5
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The Tale of Beatrix Potter
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A revealing
and enchanting journey through the storyteller's life.
13
July at
1pm
Palace Hotel
£10
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Casanova: ‘the world's greatest
lover’ -
FEW TICKETS REMAINING
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Leading harpsichordist
Sophie Yates contrasts readings by Timothy West with
contemporary music by Vivaldi, Couperin, Rameau and
Mozart.
13 July at
3pm
Palace Hotel
£16
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Yevgeny Sudbin -
SOLD OUT
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Yevgeny
Sudbin is recognised as one of the world’s most
interesting and exciting young pianists.
14 July
1pm
Palace Hotel
£16
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Die Winterreise -
SOLD OUT
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Schubert’s Die Winterreise is simply one
of the greatest song cycles.
14 July 3pm
Palace Hotel
£16
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Son de Havana
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Son de
Havana thrills audiences with a lively mix of the
traditional and the new with breathtaking virtuosity and
vibrant melody.
14 July
10pm
Palace Hotel
£10
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A Shropshire Lad -
SOLD OUT
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Many composers were inspired by the poems’
folk-song-like simplicity and James Rutherford, taking time
off from The Poacher, offers a touching sample.
15 July
12.30pm
Palace Hotel
£10 |
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Paul Lewis - SOLD OUT
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Paul Lewis
is one of the country’s most distinguished pianists,
appearing regularly at the world’s major venues and
festivals.
15 July
2.30pm
Palace
Hotel
£16
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More Glass than Wall
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A major new work to commemorate the 400th
anniversary of the death of Bess of Hardwick
15 July at
5pm
St John's Church
£10
(children £5) |
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Dido and Aeneas revisited…
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Respectable Groove re-tell the story of
the ill-fated lovers using the music of Purcell’s
masterpiece.
15 July
9.45pm
Palace Hotel
£10
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Ballades et Histoires
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Susan Bickley, star of
Roberto Devereux last year, is firmly established as one
of the most versatile and characterful mezzo-sopranos.
16 July 12.30pm
Palace
Hotel
£10
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Calefax
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Making a very
welcome return is the superb Dutch group Calefax, known for
its virtuoso performances, innovative programming and
engaging concerts.
16 July 4pm
Palace Hotel
£10
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Fiona Slominska
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Fiona Slominska
plays beautiful works for the flute by Beethoven and
Schubert.
17 July
12.30pm
Palace Hotel
£10
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Romeo and Juliet
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Independent Ballet Wales presents the
greatest love story of all, to the ravishing music of
Hector Berlioz.
17 July
2pm
Opera House
£10
(stalls) £16 (circle)
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The Magic Flute -
SOLD OUT: additional show July 17, 6pm
- FEW TICKETS REMAIN
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Mozart’s
classic opera is breathtakingly transformed in a spectacular
new film version. Certificate PG17 July
2.30pm
Devonshire Dome
£5
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Purbayan Chatterjee
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Few sounds are
as evocative as the music of the sitar. Purbayan Chatterjee
is recognised as one of the great exponents of Indian
classical music.
17 July
10pm
Palace
Hotel
£10 |
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The Katona twins
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The
Hungarian-born twins, Peter and Zoltán, have performed
throughout the world.
18
July 1pm
Palace Hotel
£10
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The Russian Chamber Philharmonic
St Petersburg
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Making their
first visit to the UK, the Russian Chamber Philharmonic St
Petersburg offers a rare opportunity to hear three Russian
masterpieces.
18 July 3pm
St. John's Church
£16
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New Scorpion Band
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The New
Scorpion Band is an acoustic group specialising in the
use of a range of early and traditional instruments,
alongside vocal harmonies.
18 July
10pm
Palace
Hotel
£10
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Extasis
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The brilliant
musicians of Joglaresa, with infectious enthusiasm and
peerless skill, will have you dancing and singing all the
way home!
19 July
3pm
Tideswell Church
£16
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Pentaèdre
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Since its
début in 1985, the Montréal-based Pentaèdre has explored
diverse, original and often less well known chamber
music repertoire.
19 July 4pm
St
Anne's Church
£10
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A Good Reed?
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How low is
low? Find out in A Good Reed? as the four examples of
bassoonery again plumb the depths of the woodwind section.
20 July 12.30pm
Palace Hotel
£10
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Gillian Keith and Tom Randle
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Festival
favourites Gillian and Tom Randle offer an all American
programme.
20 July 4pm
Palace Hotel
£10
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Opera Scenes
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Members of
the Festival Company covering main roles enjoy their own
performance of scenes from each Festival production.
21, 22 July
11am
Palace
Hotel
£5
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Festival Chorus recitals
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These recitals by members of the
Festival chorus are an essential part of the Festival,
offering our talented singers the chance to shine in
their own repertoire.
21, 25 July
1pm
Palace
Hotel
£8
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Lortzing’s Vienna -
SOLD OUT: additional talk 21 July, 1pm
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In this
talk Andrew Lamb explores Lortzing's musical links with
Vienna.
21 July
2.10pm
Palace
Hotel
£5
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The Café Band in Vienna
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SOLD OUT
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Step back
to Lortzing’s Vienna of 1842 and enjoy the tradition of
live music in Viennese coffee-houses with this unusual
offshoot from Opera North.
21 July
3pm
Palace
Hotel
£16
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Ilona Timchenko
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Highly acclaimed pianist plays enchanting programme
including Schubert and Prokofiev
22 July
1pm
Palace
Hotel
£10
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Andrew Greenwood and friends
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We are
delighted, at Andrew Greenwood’s invitation, to offer a
platform for some of the country’s most distinguished
singers
22 July
3pm
Palace
Hotel
£16
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Dojo Drummers
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The Dojo
Drummers are a Taiko drumming group – an energetic and
highly choreographed spectacle of explosive energy.
22 July
5pm
Devonshire Dome
£5
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Di Xiao
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The
Festival has a proud history of catching young artists
before they burst onto the international scene and the
latest is the sensational Chinese pianist Di Xiao.
23 July
1pm
Palace
Hotel
£10
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St Petersburg Quartet -
SOLD OUT
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One of the world’s great string
quartets.
23 July
3pm
Palace
Hotel
£16
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The Burning Bush
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Combining
foot-tapping Klezmer, exotic Arab-influenced dance music
and mystical ballads of the ghetto, the Burning Bush
cross cultural boundaries.
23 July
9.45pm
Palace
Hotel
£10
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Have I got news for thee!
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Comical,
political, scandalous or just plain lewd, broadside
ballads were both the pop songs and the tabloid press of
seventeenth-century England.
24 July 1pm
Palace
Hotel
£10
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The Spectral Horseman
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This
programme offers rarely heard melodramas by Liszt,
Richard Strauss and Schubert.
24 July
3pm
Palace
Hotel
£16
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The Silk and Bamboo Ensemble
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The
enchanting sound of the silky strings and bamboo flute
entice us to China.
24 July
10pm
Palace
Hotel
£10
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On Wenlock Edge -
SOLD OUT
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An
intriguing programme of rarely heard works for tenor and
ensemble from the same era as the evening’s Triple Bill.
25 July
3pm
Palace
Hotel
£16
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English Ayres
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To mark
the fiftieth anniversary of Vaughan Williams’ death, we
present one of his achingly poignant song-cycles.
26 July
1pm
Methodist Church
£10
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Victoria Simonsen
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Victoria
Simonsen was appointed principal cellist for Opera North
and has appeared as guest principal with orchestras.
26 July
3pm
Methodist Church
£10
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Northern Chamber Orchestra
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An
ingenious concert reflecting this year’s opera programme
from our resident orchestra.
27 July
2.45pm
Palace
Hotel
£16
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