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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.
The club was established in autumn 1877 as an offshoot of the local cricket club, playing their first match on 27 October 1877. [1] In 1891 they joined the Combination.They finished bottom of the league in 1895–96 and left at the end of the 1898–99 season, [2] when they switched to the Manchester League. [3]
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 ...
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Buxton in 1965 with shoppers and tourists filling Spring Gardens. The area features in the works of W. H. Auden, Jane Austen and Emily Brontë. [8] Buxton's profile was boosted by a recommendation from Erasmus Darwin of the waters there and at Matlock, addressed to Josiah Wedgwood I. The Wedgwood family often visited Buxton and commended the ...
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The Festival was awarded a grant of £120,000 from the government Culture Recovery Fund that helped it to survive the shutdown [17] and, in 2021, resume annually. [18] Until 2022 it continued to run for a week in Buxton and nearly two weeks in Harrogate. [19] In 2023 the entire Festival returned to Buxton, [20] where it continues. [21]
Glen Edward Buxton (November 10, 1947 – October 19, 1997) was an American guitarist who played lead guitar for the rock band Alice Cooper. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 90 on its list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". [ 1 ]