Edinburgh International Festival
The original "official" festival
Today's recital at the Queen's Hall had to be changed at the last minute due to the original performer, Ivan…
It is probably unique for the composer to take a curtain call at the premiere of an opera at the Edinburgh…
Concert performances of operas are often merely static shadows of fully-staged performances, but this double-…
Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray is a tale of the obsessive need to remain youthful and…
The final allocation of tickets for the Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert go on sale tomorrow at 10.00am.…
Ruhe - which means "silence" in German - is an extraordinary piece of theatre. It deals with the thorny…
The Queen's Hall chamber series today featured a father and daughter recital - Mischa Maisky on cello and…
This welcome return by Scottish Opera to the Edinburgh Festival after too-long an absence was better-than…
Tazieh is the folk-drama of Shi'a Islam, in
which the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet…
There are fine theatrical moments in Jidariyya, from the opening in a hospital emergency room to its close.…
Georgian sacred and folk music is quite distinctive. Unlike European and other a cappella songs, their…
Israel in Egypt, the fifth of the nineteen oratorios which George Frideric Handel composed in England, was…
Festival
Director Jonathan Mills made a bold choice in opening his second festival with
this bitter satire…
Today's concert at the Queen's Hall was with the Venezuelan pianist Gabriel Montero.
The programme changes every day at the Queens Hall during the International Festival period, but all concerts…
The Tell-Tale Heart is an adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe gothic, dark tale. A gripping monologue, we are…
This year's theme of Artists without Borders is reflected across the programme which features an…
Few cities undergo such a transformation as Scotland's capital city in the month of August.
The normally easy…
A further six-month delay in the refurbishment of the
Scottish capital's main concert hall has forced the…
The 62nd Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) programme, which was launched this morning at The Hub in…