Edinburgh International Festival

The original "official" festival

The Edinburgh Festivals' Cavalcade relocates to Holyrood Park this year for the first time ever due to the…
In Scotland, the Kirk outlawed witchcraft as devil-worshipping heretics in 1563 and 1,500 people were…
Brian Friel's poetic and often surreal style, accompanied by his obsession with language and his skill for…
It has been agreed with stakeholders and retailers that Edinburgh's tram project will continue track laying…
Tickets for the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival are on sale to the public this Saturday, 4 April at…
The 18th century Scottish Enlightenment, often harked back to as Edinburgh's golden age of intellectual and…
More money than ever before was taken at the Edinburgh International Festival box office in 2008. The final…
Heiner Goebbels, the German avant-garde composer, has transposed texts from four of the most influential…
A quartet of young Israeli musicians making their Edinburgh International Festival debut today were forced to…
This year's International Festival slogan is "artists without borders," which is why the appearance of…
The Edinburgh International concert at the Usher Hall last night should have included Schumann's Piano…
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…