Editing Buxton (section)

=== Buxton Festival ===
Buxton Festival, founded in 1979, is an opera and arts event held in July at the Opera House and other venues.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.buxtonfestival.co.uk/diary.html  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100913013033/http://www.buxtonfestival.co.uk/diary.html |archive-date=13 September 2010 |title=Diary |publisher=Buxton Festival |date=September 2010 |access-date=18 October 2024}}</ref> It includes some literary events in the mornings, concerts and recitals in the afternoon, and operas, many rarely performed, in the evenings.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk/festivals/buxton-festival |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100417230047/http://www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk/festivals/buxton-festival/ |title=Buxton Festival |publisher=Buxton Opera House |archive-date=17 April 2010 |access-date=18 October 2024}}</ref> The quality of the opera programme has improved in recent years, after decades when, according to critic [[Rupert Christiansen]], the festival featured "work of such mediocre quality that I just longed for someone to put it out of its misery."<ref>{{cite news |authorlink=Rupert Christiansen |first=Rupert |last=Christiansen |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/7873055/The-Buxton-Festival-aiming-for-peak-performance.html |title=The Buxton Festival: aiming for peak performance |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301023900/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/7873055/The-Buxton-Festival-aiming-for-peak-performance.html |archive-date=1 March 2017 |newspaper=Daily Telegraph  |date=July 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Hugh |last=Canning |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article4352380.ece |title=Buxton Festival |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615160746/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article4352380.ece |archive-date=15 June 2011 |newspaper=The Times |date=July 2008}}</ref> Running alongside is the Buxton Festival Fringe, known as a warm-up for the [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe|Edinburgh Fringe]]. The Buxton Fringe features drama, music, dance, comedy, poetry, art exhibitions and films around the town.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.buxtonfringe.org.uk/aboutus.html |title=About Us |publisher=Buxton Festival Fringe |access-date=25 June 2018}}</ref> In 2018, 181 entrants signed up and comedy and theatre categories were at their largest.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.buxtonfringe.org.uk/press201805b.html |title=Party to celebrate bumper Buxton Festival Fringe! |publisher=Buxton Festival Fringe|date=17 May 2018 |access-date=25 June 2018}}</ref>