Buxton Opera House (Derbyshire)

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 ...