The Buxton Worldwide Competition takes place from 4-21 July 2024
The BIF is the Peak District’s star-studded annual celebration of opera, music, jazz and books with greater than 160 occasions deliberate.
Commenting, Michael Williams CEO mentioned: ‘The roster at this summer season’s Buxton Worldwide Competition is larger and extra spectacular than ever earlier than with creative excellence, cultural vibrancy, originality and opinion forming occasions scheduled day by day for 18 days.’
High billing consists of 5 new opera productions, Cuban dancer and choreographer, Carlos Acosta (On Earlier than, 20 & 21 July), famous person soprano Golda Schultz, conductor and pianist Sir Antonio Pappano, Strictly Come Dancing’s lead singer, Tommy Blaize, the BBC’s newsreader and presenter Clive Myrie, Channel 4’s Decide Rinder (Robert Rinder), BBC safety correspondent and writer, Frank Gardner and Inexperienced Get together MP, Caroline Lucas.
OPERA HIGHLIGHTS – ‘This 12 months’s opera programme is out most formidable but – by no means earlier than has the pageant created 5 new productions of its personal in a single season’, says creative director, Adrian Kelly. The pageant’s operas are as follows:
ERNANI (6, 10, 12, 14 and 17 July) – Buxton Opera Home
A brand new manufacturing of Verdi’s operatic dramma lirico tells the tragic love story of Elvira, who’s caught between three males: her lover, her guardian and the King of Spain. Adrian Kelly conducts this new BIF manufacturing with The Orchestra of Opera North, directed by Jamie Manton and designed by Sami Fendall. Roman Arndt sings the title position and Nadine Benjamin is Elvira.
IL TRIONFO DEL TEMPO E DEL DISINGANNO (7, 11, 15 and 18 July) – Buxton Opera Home
Christian Curnyn returns to Buxton for this brand-new joint manufacturing of Handel’s dramatic oratorio with the award-winning Early Opera Firm directed by Jacopo Spirei with Anna Dennis as Magnificence, Hilary Cronin as Pleasure and Hilary Summers as Deception.
LA TRAGÉDIE DE CARMEN (5, 9, 13 and 16 July) – Buxton Opera Home
In its second collaboration with Norwich Theatre, BIF presents Peter Brook’s adaptation of Bizet’s extraordinary La Tragédie de Carmen. The present is carried out by Iwan Davies, directed by Katharina Kastening and designed by Bettina John with Niahm O’Sullivan within the title position.
THE BOATSWAIN’S MATE (8, 14 and 19 July) – Pavilion Arts Centre
This brand-new BIF manufacturing, written by British composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth, centres round a humorous battle of the sexes on the seafront in Margate. The opera is carried out by Rebecca Warren and directed by Nick Bond with Joshua Baxter as Harry Benn and Elizabeth Findon as Mrs Waters.
LA CANTERINA (7, 11, 18 and 20 July) – Pavilion Arts Centre
Haydn’s comedic two-act operetta, one other new BIF manufacturing, has all of the substances for a riotous present with its stock-in-trade buffo plot and forged. The opera is carried out by Toby Hessian and directed by Lysanne Van Overbeek with Helen Maree Cooper as Don Ettore and Dominic Mattos as Apollonia.
MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS – Buxton’s music programme is world-class and combines ensembles, younger artists and solo recitalists together with:
GOLDA SCHULTZ (8 July) – Buxton Opera Home
South Africa’s famous person soprano, Golda Schultz, who dazzled on the BBC’s Final Evening of the Proms, makes her Buxton recital debut.
ANTONIO PAPPANO (19 July) – Buxton Opera Home
The internationally famend conductor, Sir Antonio Pappano finest often known as music director at Covent Backyard, provides a singers’ masterclass plus a discuss his e-book, My Life in Music.
PAUL LEWIS (5, 6 July) – St John’s Church
World-class pianist Paul Lewis returns to Buxton to finish his eagerly awaited survey of Schubert’s piano sonatas.
VOCES8 (11 July) – The Octagon
Grammy-nominated vocal ensemble, VOCES8, performs sacred and secular music from Lassus and Gibbons to Gershwin and Enya.
KATHRYN STOTT (16 July) – St John’s Church
Live performance pianist Kathryn Stott has delighted Buxton’s audiences for years. This can be her farewell recital as a part of her final skilled tour.
BRODSKY QUARTET (17 July) –
Since forming 50 years in the past, the insatiable Brodsky Quartet has given over 3000 concert events, revamped 70 recordings and collaborated with everybody from Bjork to Elvis Costello.
RODERICK WILLIAMS (9 July) – St John’s Church
Baritone Roderick Williams performs his extremely acclaimed ‘Knights and Legends’ programme with accompanist Roger Vignoles which incorporates songs by Vaughan Williams, Schumann, Brahms, Honegger, Poulenc and Ravel.
JAZZ HIGHLIGHTS – Jazz director, Neil Hughes presents his third jazz programme with a blinding opening weekend at The Palace Lodge, adopted by daytime and late-night jazz throughout the pageant’s key venues for the remaining fortnight. Commenting Neil mentioned: ‘The ambiance in Buxton is an unimaginable factor to be a part of – there’s a heat and friendliness in regards to the place that arduous to beat.’ Highlights embrace:
NEW ORLEANS SOCIAL CLUB – ADRIAN COX JAZZ QUINTET WITH A STRING QUARTET AND TOMMY BLAIZE (8 July) – Buxton Opera Home
One of many world’s main New Orleans clarinettists Adrian Cox fronts an all-star quintet as they play alongside Tommy Blaize, lead singer from BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.
JUDI JACKSON/MADELINE BELL (11 July) – Buxton Opera Home
Judi Jackson, Vocalist of the Yr on the 2020 Jazz FM Awards, headlines this late-night double invoice with New Jersey-born singer and Buxton favorite, Madeline Bell.
JEREMY SASSOON’S RAY CHARLES ORCHESTRA (14 July) – Buxton Opera Home
Singer-pianist Jeremy Sassoon and his 18-piece large band play tribute to the easiest music of Ray Charles – an evening of jazz, blues and soul.
MICA MILLAR (13 July) – Pavilion Arts Centre
An opportunity to listen to the winner of Jazz FM’s Soul Act of The Yr Award (2022), Mica Millar, who’s quick making a reputation for herself as one in every of Britain’s brightest new soul stars.
BOOKS HIGHLIGHTS – Victoria Dawson, Director of Books mentioned: ‘I hope this 12 months’s e-book pageant will dissect the worldwide as we journey the world throughout historical past, battle, artwork, diplomacy, legislation and extra.’
Highlights embrace:
CLIVE MYRIE (20 July) – Widespread BBC Newsreader Clive Myrie discusses his deeply private bestselling memoir, ‘Every part is Every part’, which tells how his household historical past has influenced his life, work and look at of the world.
ROB RINDER (16 July) – Barrister turned author and broadcaster, Rob Rinder, finest often known as TV’s Decide Rinder within the courtroom drama, discusses his new authorized thriller, ‘The Suspect’, with Julian Glover.
FRANK GARDNER (12 July, Buxton Opera Home) – BBC’s Safety Correspondent, Frank Gardner, was left for useless in 2004 when ambushed in Saudi Arabia. His survival and return to information reporting has been outstanding. Frank discusses his profession and newest novel, ‘Invasion: The brand new Luke Carlton Thriller’.
CAROLINE LUCAS (13 July, Buxton Opera Home) – Caroline Lucas, MP for Brighton Pavilion and the UK’s first and solely Inexperienced Get together MP discusses her e-book, ‘One other England: The way to Reclaim Our Nationwide Story’ which sketches out another Englishness: one which we will all embrace to construct a greener future.
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