Buxton Opera House (Derbyshire) Reviews


Newest Review: ... Kiss" and "My Milliners Bill". Highly favourable reviews following this opening night were to ensure that for the next thirty years this venue would be one of the most successful in the country, attracting touring Shakespeare companies, West End shows, concerts, ballets and musical comedies. In 1925 Anna Pavlova performed the Dance of the Dying Swan here. Despite these successes the demand for live shows was on the decline and the age of the movies was just around the corner. In 1927 a decision was made to turn this building into a cinema. The early films that were shown here were silent movies but in 1932 the theatre wa... more
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by - written on 11/02/08 (Very useful, 151 readings)
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No visitor to the Derbyshire town of Buxton on the edge of the Peak District National Park could fail to see the Buxton Opera House. I visit Buxton perhaps one day every month and I am ashamed to say that I have almost come to take this beautiful building for granted. Until recently however this was never a place that I had been inside. Opera had never been high on my list of things to see but when a friend recently came over from America, visiting the Buxton Opera House was high on his agenda. It would seem that the reputation of this place really is worldwide, or at least its status has spread as far as California. There is no denying that this ... Read the complete review
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