Edinburgh International Festival
The original "official" festival
This year is set to be a historically important one for Scotland and the National Theatre of Scotland’s 2014…
Three momentous plays for a momentous a year in Scotland.
After an awkward flurry of Smetana - Dance of the Comedians - Garry Walker and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra…
What should you do if two men walk on stage, then, for no apparent reason whatsoever, one of them suddenly…
This sole Festival appearance by one of the world’s great orchestras, playing a massive symphony by a great…
The Edinburgh International Festival comes to an end tonight with up to a quarter of a million people…
At the strike of 9pm tonight, over 400,000 fireworks will light up the sky over Edinburgh Castle in the…
An utterly pack-out Queen’s Hall (again, as before, with some of the audience forced unnecessarily to be…
Some of the pieces in this year’s Edinburgh International Festival create a mirror-like effect, with each…
50 years ago, Yehudi Menuhin founded the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music.
At 11am on Wednesday 28 August 2013, the morning after his performance of Bruch Violin no.
First Love, an hour-long soliloquy performed by a single character, was engagingly received by a sell-out…
After rustling with anticipation, an excitedly packed-out Usher Hall suddenly exploded with elation to…
The Arditti Quartet – led by Irvene Arditti who formed the quartet at the Royal Academy of Music in 1974 –…
Oper Frankfurt’s fantastical offering – supported by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany…
“Requiem” is a rather misleading title for this massive orchestral and choral work: “Sacred Concert”, the…
We have to be very brave to talk of death, or more truthfully, of what precedes death.
The Rite of Spring, when first performed in 1913, stirred emotions to such an extent that members of the…
L.A. Dance Project is an artist collective co-founded in 2012 by the choreographer/dancer Benjamin Millepied…
Purcell’s best known opera was given a radical new twist by Frankfurt Opera, who contracted three acts into…