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As a famous ancient spa, which Mary Queen of Scots visited to take the waters, the Peak District town of Buxton is a remarkably appropriate setting for a production of Rossini’s 1819 opera La Donna del Lago. It was written for Naples and based on what Stendhal generously called “a bad poem by Walter Scott”; as both poem and opera feature a King of Scotland (albeit in disguise) called James who was Mary Queen of Scots’ father, the match between work and venue is surely ideal. But there are a few