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21 February 2022

Buxton International Festival 2022 - Rossini's La donna del lago, Hasse's
Antonio e Cleopatra
Labels: Buxton Festival, preview

This year's Buxton International Festival runs from 7 to 24 July 2022, and artistic director Adrian
Kelly's programme features five operas and a musical including three new productions, along with a
wide array of concerts and other events.
The festival's new productions are Rossini's La donna del lago and Hasse's Antonio e Cleopatra, and
the musical Gypsy, and there is also the premiere of a new oratorio.

Rossini's La donna del lago, based on Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake, is directed by
Jacopo Spirei and conducted by Adrian Kelly with Máire Flavin as Elena, Nico Darmanin as Uberto,
John Irvin as Rodrigo and Catherine Carby as Malcolm. Evangeline Cullingworth directs
Hasse's Antonio e Cleopatra the Pavilion Arts Centre with Buxton Baroque Ensemble, music director
Satoko Doi-Luck, with Ellie Neate and Thalie Knights in the title roles. The final festival production is
Jules Styne's Gypsy, directed by Paul Kerryson,

Visiting productions include Salzburg State Theatre's production of Donizetti's Viva la Diva, directed
by Stephen Medcalf, with George Humphreys as Agatha and Jenny Stafford as Prima Donna,
Waterperry Opera's production of Jonathan Dove's Mansfield Park, directed by Rebecca Meltzer with
Sian Griffiths, Milo Harries, Ellie Neate and Sarah Champion, and Tom Coult's new opera Violet which
is a co-production by Music Theatre Wales and Britten Pears Arts, presented in association with the
London Sinfonietta, directed by Jude Christian, conducted by Andrew Gourlay with Anna Dennis,
Richard Burkhard, Frances Gregory and Andrew Mackenzie Wicks.