https://www.paulboucher.co.uk/home daily 0.75 2026-04-10 https://www.paulboucher.co.uk/about daily 1.0 2026-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/a1a865a9-e92f-4bb3-a194-f80aaf5203e4/unnamed.jpg https://www.paulboucher.co.uk/music-and-performance daily 0.75 2026-04-12 https://www.paulboucher.co.uk/curatorial-practice daily 0.75 2026-04-12 https://www.paulboucher.co.uk/writing daily 0.75 2026-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/db070b78-22ef-4019-9652-41091cb19c88/243545308.jpg https://www.paulboucher.co.uk/gallery daily 0.75 2026-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/42d1b35a-e936-4a60-a5f5-02dcbdbba6fa/Opera-Exhibition-960x600.webp Gallery From A Passion for Opera: The Duchess and the Georgian Stage. This 2019 exhibition explored the deep passion Lady Elizabeth Montagu held for the opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/441727f0-90e8-4b4a-88fc-e2a6e00859cd/160712-131744-Boughton_House_Handel_Exhibition-960x600.webp Gallery The August 2016 Handel exhibition celebrated the composer's legacy through items from the Buccleuch musical archives. Image Credit: Boughton House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/f5878034-62e4-4c59-a5d6-b50471b5ce89/unnamed+%282%29.jpg Gallery The Montagu Music Collection was lavishly showcased at the Utrecht Early Music Festival in 2015. On the left, I'm leafing through the precious first edition of Handel’s oratorio Sampson, 1743. On the right is a detail from a portrait of Lord Monthermer leafing through the score of Corelli’s Violin Sonata in D, wonderfully rendered by Pompeo Batoni in 1764. Both are at Boughton House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/8d97fa3b-0726-4c20-8939-8561dbc212d2/pboucher_huguenot+ex.jpg Gallery Vitrines and visitors at the 2015 Huguenot Exhibition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/0ab52bdc-19c9-4f98-9fdf-5ae74e5b0295/655416850_1596498525220391_4234402946309905964_n.jpg Gallery Unboxing An Absent Life: Elizabeth, the "mad" Duchess of Albemarle, 1654-1734 for the first time, spring 2026. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/15b340c4-6a3b-4c3e-8dc5-8b06a691c9e2/GardenExhibition-1068-960x600.webp Gallery Garden Exhibition: Vistas of Vast Extension from 2018 drew on the extensive Buccleuch collection to celebrate horticulture in a range of creative forms. Image Credit: Boughton House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/9345201d-5054-4150-b97b-a3ccf290b2e4/unnamed.jpg Gallery Pictured right centre, rehearsing with Benjamin Britten for the 1967 recording of A Burning Fiery Furnace‍ ‍ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/7e656ce0-a8d5-446c-be59-0ec013175873/Memory-Exhibition-1017-960x600.webp Gallery The 2018 exhibition Music and Memory was dedicated to memory in all its forms and with all its flaws. Image Credit: Boughton House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/615ae117-13d3-4b09-b8d1-209493b8e6dc/pboucher_porclein_garden+exhibition.jpg Gallery Sèvres porcelain as part of Boughton House's Garden Exhibition: Vistas of Great Expansion, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/e56b2330-8d10-4ac4-84c7-fbc54742ed1a/p041z4lv.jpg Gallery With the Duke of Buccleuch at Handel's harpsichord at Boughton House. It is thought that this is the harpsichord seen with Handel in the portrait. Image Credit: BBC Radio 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/2f16ba18-507a-439a-875d-fd53c0dd9043/pboucher_young+student+in+soviet+russia.jpg Gallery A portrait from my days as a young student in Soviet Russia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/5bc23c2b-eaac-4fa5-ab95-5a6572110dc9/unnamed+%283%29.jpg Gallery At Charleston Farmhouse with Melvyn Tan and Sir Derek Jacobi after another Music and Word performance, which called “Between Sleeping and Waking". Benjamin Britten, Francis Poulenc, Kevin Volans, and Brett Dean rubbed shoulders with Virginia Woolf, Dylan Thomas, Hilary Mantel and Kazuo Ishiguro. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/9149a394-13ef-48f9-92ec-8321a587ba4c/pboucher_jonathan+dove.jpg Gallery The world première of Jonathan Dove’s sparkling opera Mansfield Park at Boughton House, 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/dd042b56-78e6-453c-b76a-bb062f41e5f6/pboucher2019.jpg Gallery The Buskaid String Ensemble, photographed with with their inspired director Rosemary Nalden MBE and the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch. The Buskaid String Ensemble is a musical miracle from Soweto; their concert in the Great Hall at Boughton House in 2014 was an unforgettable event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/2fafc359-55db-47e1-86a0-695d6fe155f8/pboucher_boughton.jpg Gallery Boughton House, reflected in the Grand Etang. The Grand Etang is one of the earliest surviving features from the original gardens and designed landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/2cb25a13-b1a7-4cab-9265-cf9593473099/p041z36l.jpg Gallery Alongisde Sean Rafferty and the Duke of Buccleuch with Melvyn Tan on Handel's harpsichord. The instrument was out of tune, but Melvyn gamely gave a quick rendition. Image Credit: BBC Radio 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/eb1b5e55-b9b6-458d-9088-ff6b14345e2f/pboucher_recreating+dance.jpg Gallery Recreating Dandelion Dance at Boughton House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/7e3e0672-9fab-4924-a40e-5fbc01040f3f/pboucher_melvyn+tan_vanessa+redgrave.jpg Gallery Melvyn Tan with Dame Vanessa Redgrave for Music and Word: A Season in Granada at Charleston, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/59323e18-931a-46ee-a6dc-27cc83ff29bb/unnamed+%281%29.jpg Gallery The great barn at Grange de Clavières, St Agrève in the Ardèche, the scene of over 20 years of festivals, concerts, and exhibitions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/54a46611-6aa2-4b5b-8157-4bbbfefec709/160712-141813-Boughton_House_Handel_Exhibition-960x600.webp Gallery From the Huguenot Exhibition, summer 2015. Boughton House hosted a special celebration of the extraordinary Huguenot artwork preserved there. Image Credit: Boughton House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/3c8f00f4-37bc-4a43-8f8c-a6daa7450e59/pboucher_huguenot+tapestry.jpg Gallery Huguenot tapestry, silver, and tools featured in the 2015 Huguenot Exhibition at Boughton House.