Buxton Opera House

Buxton Opera House is one of Britain’s leading receiving theatres, presenting around 450 performances each year including dance, comedy, children’s shows, drama, musical concerts, pantomime and opera as well as a lively Fringe Theatre and Community and Education Programme. The theatre is also home to the prestigious Buxton Festival and The International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival and The Four-Four-Time Festival of Live Music. Lovingly restored to its former glory in 2001, Buxton Opera House is an exquisitely beautiful Edwardian theatre and one of the country’s finest examples of Frank Matcham theatre design.

What we did

We were approached by Derwent International to develop a new site for the world-renowned Buxton Opera House.

The design framework was put together by Derwent but as with previous work we needed some fantastic photography to work with so we invited Sam Hook to come along and do her thing. She came up with a superb portfolio for the gallery and other photographs that we used in a Flash header.

The site was developed in Expresssion Engine. As part of this development we also wrote a new custom event management module and several new plugins.

Visit this site: http://www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk