Edinburgh International Festival
The original "official" festival
“Everybody is rushing, running, trying to escape almost certain death in this hail of enemy shells. Today I…
Haydn's Nelson Mass is full of surprises not least in its flamboyant soprano opening. Are we really listening…
A full-strength LPO, crammed onto the Usher Hall stage, did full justice to its opening piece by resident…
One of a series of talks aimed at re-examining aspects of the First World War and of other conflicts, Dr.
This massive work, far too big for any liturgical purpose is generally regarded as Bach’s greatest…
I AM is a challenging piece that is more to be endured than enjoyed, but if you push on through, you may…
Owen Wingrave was the result of a commission by the BBC to write an opera for television. It took about five…
A orchestra of young people that was founded as recently as 2011 has done well to be invited to the Edinburgh…
The play is centred in the lobby of a grand hotel in Ostend.
Andrew Davis actively marshalled the large forces required for Britten’s War Requiem into a reasoned,…
James II: Day of The Innocents, the second of Rona Munro’s historical trilogy, is a gripping tale of trauma,…
Kurt Weill's 1929 work Little Three Penny Music emerged from a darkened stage lit by the music desk lamps for…
Reviewing this last part of Rona Munro’s triptych of plays on Scotland’s first three Stewart kings feels…
The programme changes every day at the Queen's Hall during the International Festival period, but all…
Like most of the large audience I did not know what was on offer from this unusual grouping.
This is the sixth successive year that The Sixteen has appeared at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Outgoing Festival Director Sir Jonathan Mills kicked off this year’s programme with a lucid account of its…
The War is an intense theatrical experience of sight and sound with an abundance of style, but rather…
A roaring, rampant lion of a play!
Edinburgh based Scottish Chamber Orchestra was conducted by its own Robin Ticciati.