Edinburgh International Festival

The original "official" festival

The Sixteen have gained a worldwide reputation since establishment by Harry Christophers in 1979.
In this double bill, we observe contrasting dance pieces – one a European premiere – by two of Australia’s…
Full marks to the solo violinist, Baiba Skride, who worked her way through the forty minutes of Sofia…
The sonorous timbre of The Queen's Hall Steinway No.
Holyrood Park will be closed to vehicle traffic during the end of the Edinburgh Festival Fireworks Display.
The audience may have been slightly unsure what to expect from Russian director, Dmitry Krymov’s  Laboratory…
The Budapest Festival Orchestra won well-deserved vociferous applause from a full Usher Hall for a sparkling…
The large Cleveland Orchestra – more than 100 musicians – filled the concert platform to bursting point but…
It is difficult for the audience to get to grips with the plot of this Janacek opera, which has a number of…
Standing ovations are infrequent in Edinburgh, even at Festival time, but this tour de force concert…
The Juillard School in New York offers successful students the opportunity to study music, dance and drama.
This is a theatrical journey. It will take us from the dawn of a new era, through turbulent times and seas,…
It was a subtle programming idea for the four LSO Festival concerts to offer in apposition symphonies by two…
Other than seeing some of the best young musicians at work, this was not a concert whose programme was…
Camille O’Sullivan is a beguiling, unassuming tour de force.
Physical dexterity is pushed to the extreme in an engrossing but often repetitive evening in this double bill…
Villa Grimaldi is one of more than 1,200 detention and torture centres in Chile that were operating under the…
Anton Bruckner failed to finish his ninth symphony, despite working on it for nine years before his death in…
Iestyn Davies was a choir boy in the chapel of St John’s College Cambridge, went on to be a countertenor at…
The quiet command and confidence that exuded from Leif Ove Andsnes’ playing was impressive.