Edinburgh International Festival

The original "official" festival

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. …