Edinburgh International Festival
The original "official" festival
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.
A group of actors are discovered on stage, straw tails attached to their rears, pawing the ground, whinnying…
For Angelin Preljocaj, the key word in any artistic endeavour is ‘collaboration’, his priority ‘change’.
For someone lured into appreciation of classical music by the voice of Kathleen Ferrier this concert was a “…
George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion premiered in London in 1914. It was a satire on class and women’s…
“Four men from the rebel Syrian Army check their assault rifles and sling them over their shoulders. Their…
Barry McGovern, internationally renowned for his interpretations and performances of Beckett, was born and…
Edinburgh-born Donald Runnicles has stamped his authority so precisely on the BBC Scottish Symphony orchestra…
The Edinburgh International Festival has cancelled tonight's all-Russian concert by the London Philharmonic…
The theme of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's concert at the Usher Hall was Shakespeare's play A Midsummer…
The story of Electra, so typical of the myths and legends of Ancient Greece, has murder and revenge at its…