Operas Past
History of Buxton Opera
The following is a complete list of all the operas that have been staged at the Opera House since the first Festival in 1979.
2006 | |
Armide | Gluck |
The Fair Maid of Perth | Bizet |
Pimpinone | Telemann |
Noye's Fludde | Britten |
Apollo & Hyacinth | Mozart |
The Coronation of Poppea | Monteverdi |
The Nose | Shostakovich |
Isabella and the Pot of Basil | Laurence Roman |
2005 | |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | Nicolai |
Ascanio in Alba | Mozart |
Ariodante | Handel |
The knot Garden | Tippett |
The Barber of Seville | Paisiello |
The Birds | Ed Hughes & Glyn Maxwell |
Hollow Hill – A Children’s Opera | Ian McQueen |
2004 | |
Il turco in Italia | Rossini |
Hercules | Handel |
Maria de Buenos Aires | Piazzolla |
The Turn of the Screw | Britten |
Trouble in Tahiti | Bernstein |
Mahogonny Songspiel | Weill |
The Blackened Man | Will Todd |
The Four Note Opera | Tom Johnson |
2003 | |
Maria Padilla | Donizetti |
Semele | Handel |
Candide | Bernstein |
Gwyneth and the Green Knight | Plowman |
Hansel & Gretel | Humperdinck |
2002 | |
La Périchole | Offenbach |
Erismena | Cavalli |
The Young Man with the Carnation | Rushton |
The Bear | Walton |
The Electrification of the Soviet Union | Osborne |
The Green Children | LeFanu |
2001 | |
Un giorno di regno | Verdi |
Partenope | Handel |
The Lighthouse | Maxwell Davies |
The Nose | Shostakovich |
2000 | |
Fierrabras | Schubert |
Rodelinda | Handel |
Jane Eyre | Berkeley |
Burning Waters | Keable |
1999 | |
Il campanello di notte | Donizetti |
The Beautiful Galetea | Suppé |
The Rape of Lucretia | Britten |
1998 | |
La finta semplice | Mozart |
Feugene Onegin | Tchaikovsky |
1997 | |
Il mondo de la luna | Haydn |
Il maestro di cappella | Cimarosa |
Susanna's Secret | Wolf-Ferrari |
The Telephone | Menotti |
1996 | |
Amadigi | Handel |
The Beggar's Opera | Gay |
1995 | |
The Return of Ulysses | Monteverdi |
The Turn of the Screw | Britten |
1994 | |
Il re pastore | Mozart |
Gianni Schicchi | Puccini |
I pagliacci | Leoncavallo |
1993 | |
Maria Stuarda | Donizetti |
The Secret Marriage | Cimarosa |
1992 | |
Agrippina | Handel |
The Italian Girl in Algiers | Rossini |
1991 | |
The Abduction from the Seraglio | Mozart |
The Impresario and Il sogno di Scipione | Mozart |
The Black Spider | Weir |
1990 | |
Tancredi | Rossini |
Le Huron | Grétry |
Catnapper | Copland |
The Princess, the Poet and the Pagliacci Man | Werner |
1989 | |
L'italiana in Londra | Cimarosa |
Il pittor parigino | Cimarosa |
Il maestro do cappella | Cimarosa |
Peter and the Wolf | Prokofiev |
1988 | |
Armida | Haydn |
Torquato Tasso | Donizetti |
Help, Help the Globolinks | Menotti |
1987 | |
Il Pigmalione | Donizetti |
L'occasione fa il ladro | Rossini |
Don Quixote in Sierra Morena | Conti |
Master Peter's Puppet Show | de Falla |
1986 | |
King Arthur | Purcell |
Ariodante | Handel |
The Ring for Children | Caggiano |
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Blackford |
1985 | |
La buona figliuola | Piccini |
Il filosofo di campagna | Galuppi |
David and Goliath | Read |
1984 | |
Médée | Cherubini |
Jason | Cavalli |
Robin Hood | Kay |
1983 | |
Griselda | Vivaldi |
La colombe | Gounod |
James and the Giant Peach | Chappell |
1982 | |
Háry János | Kodály |
The Nightingale | Strouse |
1981 | |
Il matrimonio segreto | Cimarosa |
Let's make an Opera | Britten |
1980 | |
Hamlet | Thomas |
Beatrice and Benedict | Berlioz |
Cinderella | Maxwell Davies |
1979 | |
Lucia di Lammermoor | Donizetti |
The Two Fiddlers | Maxwell Davies |
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