Edinburgh International Festival

The original "official" festival

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…
Edinburgh based Scottish Chamber Orchestra was conducted by its own Robin Ticciati.
It may have been that some in the audience had come for The Planet's and knew they had to put up with the…
Inala – which translates into “abundance of goodwill” – was first conceived five years ago.
"I myself, meanwhile, after innumerable attempts, had laid down a final form; a flag with a red background, a…
Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn - Robert Burns
The Edinburgh International Festival launched its programme at a press conference in Edinburgh today.
The Edinburgh International Festival is looking for a new official Festival Photographer for 2014.
This year is set to be a historically important one for Scotland and the National Theatre of Scotland’s 2014…