Edinburgh International Festival
The original "official" festival
Ivo Pogorelich excites debate and controversy today as much as he did in 1980 at the Fryderyk Chopin Piano…
Walking down to my seat in the front stalls, I quickly see that the Playhouse is packed up to the Gods.
Afterplay, written by Brian Friel, is most unusual in that he has taken characters from two familiar Chekhov…
Three of the "most innovative theatre makers" at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year were announced as…
Brian Friel's play, The Yalta Game, is based on a short story by Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Lapdog,…
The final allocation of tickets for the Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert go on sale on Sunday 30 August at…
Haydn's Symphony No 70 in D was written to celebrate the start of the construction of a new opera house on…
Every morning throughout the Edinburgh International Festival there is a chamber concert at the Queen's Hall.
Under the big blue bosses of the Hub's, fine yellow blue and red ceiling (sadly hidden to accommodate theatre…
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment make you listen again to Haydn.
Under Sir Roger Norrington they put…
Silviu Purcarete's freely adapted version of Goethe's Faust, held in an aircraft hangar sized hall at the…
Inverleith Park and Calton Hill are being recommended by the council as the best public places to view the…
Born in 1809 into an affluent, intellectual Jewish family who converted to Christianity, Felix Mendelssohn…
See, the conqu'ring hero comes!
Handel's oratorio tells of the triumph of the Jewish warrior-hero Judas…
Traditional Gaelic song and contemporary music are performed against a backdrop of vintage and modern film.
"There is something in the very name of St. Kilda, which excites expectation. Remote and solitary, the…
Good theatre is like the elixir of life and Brian Friel's play Faith Healer is a theatrical experience. …
The choice of last night's opening concert of the Edinburgh International Festival was thought by many to be…
It's unsurprising that Voltaire's bracing cynicism seems so apt for the 21st
century. In a world where our…
A new late-night train to North Berwick is among this year's improved services for Edinburgh's Festivals.