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Calleja in La Gioconda, and Otello, with Simon Keenlyside as Iago in a David

Alden production.

Don’t miss Otello, Jun 19-Jul 9. Festival runs Jun 9-Jul 17; tickets from £80 to
£220. grangeparkopera.co.uk

Buxton International Festival

The much-loved Peak District festival’s operatic content includes productions of
Rossini’s La donna del lago and Donizetti’s Viva la Diva, the latter in a new

English version by Kit Hesketh-Harvey. Other highlights are Jonathan Dove’s

adaptation of Mansfield Park, Johann Adolf Hasse’s rarely heard Antonio e

Cleopatra, and a staging of Laurents, Styne and Sondheim’s Gypsy: A Music

Fable.
Don’t miss Viva la Diva, Jul 10-23. Festival runs Jul 7-24; opera tickets from £15

to £79. buxtonfestival.co.uk

Edinburgh International Festival

The 75th festival has a strong classical music programme, with stellar musicians

from France, Australia, the US and more alongside the best of Scotland and the

UK. Highlights are Donald Runnicles, general music director of the Deutsche Oper

Berlin, and the Philharmonia Orchestra in a concert performance of Fidelio, and

Strauss’s one-act opera Salome, with Malin Byström in the title role and Edward
Gardener conducting the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.

Don’t miss Salome, Aug 14. Festival runs Aug 5-28; tickets from free to

£102. eif.co.uk