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 2026-04-15 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 Me, pictured right centre, rehearsing with Benjamin Britten in Aldeburgh 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. We managed to borrow back this triptych painted by the German artist Gerard Casper, one of 2,000 prisoners of war held at Boughton in 1944. 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 Extension, 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, 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 Handelian dance at Boughton House with the Parisian dance company Les Corps Eloquents. 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, the Grange de Claviéres, St Agréve in the Ardèche, scene of 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 2016 Handel exhibition, celebrating the life of the great composer. 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6973934ba232437d7abeb625/badf8e61-e073-4eaf-ac60-270f5c47db32/melyvntan_royal+ballet.jpg Gallery Melvyn Tan and Churen at Charleston in rehearsal with Royal Ballet soloist Reece Clarke for Debussy’s L’Après-Midi d’un Faun, choreographed by Russell Maliphant. This 2024 Music and Word performance included Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring for two pianos and words by Jean Genet, Virginia Woolf and TS Eliot.