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  2. Buxton Opera House - Wikipedia

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    Buxton Opera House is in The Square, Buxton, Derbyshire, England. It is a 902-seat opera house that hosts the annual Buxton Festival and the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, among others, as well as pantomime at Christmas, musicals and other entertainments year-round. Hosting live performances until 1927, the theatre then was used ...

  3. Buxton Festival - Wikipedia

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    Buxton Opera House. The Buxton International Festival is an annual summer festival of opera, music and (since 2000) a literary series, held in Buxton, Derbyshire, England since its beginnings in July 1979. The 2020 festival was cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis. [1] The 2024 Buxton International Festival was scheduled for 4–21 July.

  4. International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival - Wikipedia

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    Buxton Opera House, host of the Festival The International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival was founded in 1994 by Ian Smith and his son Neil and is held every summer in England. The two- or three-week Festival of Gilbert and Sullivan opera performances and fringe events attracts thousands of visitors, including performers, supporters, and G&S ...

  5. Buxton - Wikipedia

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    Buxton Festival, founded in 1979, is an opera and arts event held in July at the Opera House and other venues. [51] It includes some literary events in the mornings, concerts and recitals in the afternoon, and operas, many rarely performed, in the evenings. [52]

  6. Great British Railway Journeys - Wikipedia

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    Portillo visits the Buxton Opera House and the Duke of Devonshire's stables in Buxton, helps to repair the ancient peat landscape of the Peak District, goes to Matlock Bath, and travels on a steam train on the heritage Peak Rail to Rowsley, where he visits the local stone quarry.

  7. List of opera houses - Wikipedia

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    Opened in 1856 is the oldest opera house in South America. This is a list of notable opera houses listed by continent, then by country with the name of the opera house and city. The opera company is sometimes named for clarity.

  8. Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton - Wikipedia

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    The Picture House was then built in 1916 on Spring Gardens (on the site of the demolished Victoria Arcade and Swedish Gymnasium). Buxton Opera House opened in 1903 and it was converted to a cinema in 1927 which closed in 1976. In 1937 The Picture House was remodelled as the art deco Spa Cinema, running until its closure in the 1960s. It was ...

  9. National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company - Wikipedia

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    The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company performed Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy Operas continuously, year-round, for over a century, closing in 1982. [1] [2] Until the Gilbert and Sullivan copyrights expired in 1961, no other professional theatre or opera companies were allowed to present the Savoy Operas in Britain, although professional companies performed the operas in North America, Australia and ...