Edinburgh International Festival

The original "official" festival

Making their Festival debut, this performance from the Australian World Orchestra (AWO) was a real highpoin
Under Semyon Bychkov, their conductor since 2018, the mighty Czech Philharmonic showed us how Mahler's
Samsara is inspired by Wu Cheng’en’s 16th century Chinese novel ‘Journey to the West’, relating a fantastical…
The comic ballet, Coppélia by Delibes, first staged in Paris, 1870, relates the story of Doctor Co
With the music so carefully reflecting the cultures he experienced, we felt that we were truly travelling w
‘What am I’, Medea asks Jason in a final bitter, brief encounter, ‘tigress, h
As part of the cultural programme, Refuge, Windows of Displacement is an autobiographical memoir b
We had expected to hear Tan Dun's Percussion Concerto: The Tears of Nature but Austrian-born percussionist
One of the fascinations was to watch the two choirs, each of eleven singers, move from station to station o
If Drifters combined with Fleabag and added just a hint of Bridesmaids, you'd ge
In trying to describe The Worst Thing You Could Do, I’ve come to find it isn’t a production to be
“Burns the man and Burns the poetic genius went wonderfully together.