Experience world class opera, music, books and jazz in the heart of the beautiful Peak District. Buxton International Festival is recognised nationally and internationally as one of the UK's leading arts festivals.

This year's Festival takes place on 4 - 21 July 2024.

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Alexandra Harris

The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape

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Roderick Williams & Roger Vignoles

Baritone and Piano

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Rowan Moore

Property: The myth that built the world

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Opera In The Cavern

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Christopher Somerville

Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary

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Emile Souvagie & Hamish Brown

Clarinet and Piano

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The Medicinal Use of Buxton Water

Festival Walk

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Bettany Hughes

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

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Angela Hewitt

Piano

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Timandra Harkness

Technology is Not the Problem

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Pump Room Talk - Dr Peter Collinge

Buxton Crescent and its People (1780-1840)

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Simon McDonald

Beyond Britannia: Reshaping UK Foreign Policy