In praise of ... the Buxton festival | Editorial

Every July, audiences gather outside Buxton's miniature opera house for Britain's least pretentious annual opera festivalFrank Matcham, the architect of many opulent Edwardian theatres, designed what is now one of Britain's biggest opera houses, the London Coliseum, and one of its smallest, in Buxton. By some miracle, and a lot of hard work, the theatre in the north Derbyshire town has survived to become home to what must be Britain's least pretentious annual opera festival, now entering its fin...

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