The original "official" festival
Edinburgh International Festival
Geoff Sobelle is making a house, and a home.
Concert performances of operas are often merely static shadows of fully-staged performances, but this double-…
For half an hour Sarah Connolly CBE entranced us as she sung six of Alma Mahler's lieder, German romantic…
This massive work, far too big for any liturgical purpose is generally regarded as Bach’s greatest…
Vadim Gluzman was the violin soloist in Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto composed in 1942 when Barber was with…
The long wait on our feet was worth it.
The Edinburgh International Festival launched its 2011 eclectic programme last night in traditional fashion…
Thunderous applause and prolonged cheers from a packed Usher Hall marked the end of the scintillating…
Inala – which translates into “abundance of goodwill” – was first conceived five years ago.
Standing ovations are infrequent in Edinburgh, even at Festival time, but this tour de force concert…
A orchestra of young people that was founded as recently as 2011 has done well to be invited to the Edinburgh…
At 11am on Wednesday 28 August 2013, the morning after his performance of Bruch Violin no.
The War is an intense theatrical experience of sight and sound with an abundance of style, but rather…
A soaring polyphony on the grief and waste of war.
The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra is well-remembered from its five-concert residency at the 2003 Edinburgh…
Vanishing Point’s productions are always different, from each other, as well as from your usual theatrical…
Robert Lepage and his creative team, collectively known as Ex Machina, reconstruct memories from his past in…
"All children, except one, grow up. Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, "Oh, why can't you…
It was somewhat disappointing, for this reviewer at least, for what is in effect Finland’s national orchestra…
Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray is a tale of the obsessive need to remain youthful and…