Orlando – An Escapade by Thea Musgrave

• Saturday 10 July, 7.15pm
• Thursday 15 July, 7.15pm
• Wednesday 21 July, 7.15pm

Orlando will be a Buxton International Festival world première production featuring the Buxton International Festival Orchestra. A chamber opera in two acts based on Virginia Woolf’s novel, Orlando, with a libretto by Thea Musgrave.

This joyful opera follows the charismatic Orlando on an extraordinary journey through centuries of passion, identity, and transformation.

Orlando – An Escapade is supported by the Royal Philharmonic Society, with a grant from the RPS Thea Musgrave Fund.

La gazzetta by Gioachino Rossini

• Sunday 11 July, 3pm
• Wednesday 14 July, 7.15pm
• Sunday 18 July, 3pm
• Friday 23 July, 7.15pm

A lesser-known opera by Gioachino Rossino, La gazzetta is a Buxton International Festival production directed by Amy J Payne, featuring the Buxton International Festival Orchestra.

• Tuesday 20 July, 7.30pm
• Thursday 22 July, 7.30pm

There will also be a new staging of Salome: Dance Toward Ruin by Richard Strauss. This will be an OperaUpClose production directed by Flora McIntosh, in partnership with Opera North and artsdepot.

This compelling reimagining brings audiences closer than ever to the heart of the tragedy, immersing them in a haunted, warped world that is at once disturbing, provocative and visceral.