Edinburgh International Festival

The original "official" festival

In short, Kate Tempest was amazing. More accurately, the combination of her and a crowd that revelled
‘Quickening’ is a majestic meditation on the beginnings of life – inviting us to wonder in awe, but also to
An audience of 15,000 gathered at Tynecastle Park, home to Hearts football team, for the
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra, led by conductor Garry Walker, open the Festival Fireworks Concert 2014 in

This year's Edinburgh International Festival finished with a concert in Princes Street Gardens - a concert in

It is completely fitting that a play written in France by an Irish playwright that first made its name in

‘Every light casts a shadow; every fire ends in dust’. So reads the programme note to Anything That Gives Off

Eighteen semi finalists arrived in Edinburgh at the weekend, all aged 18 or under, to try to reach the finals

Anyone who had the privilege of witnessing the extraordinary monologue, Novecento, staged at the EIF in 2001

Works from three of the world’s greatest ever composers: the programme for tonight’s concert was tantalising

The performance of ‘Hora’ by Israeli dance company, Batsheva, was completely overshadowed by the human rights

As the Edinburgh International Festival tackles the “thundering hooves” of rival UK festivals (notably

Clearly, this is the world's biggest and most spectacular annual fireworks concert, and an explosive evening

The Opening Concert set a very high standard with a particularly impressive Haydn’s The Creation.
The opera tells the story of a successful advertising executive, Harry Joy, who lived on the outskirts of a

The Orchestra of the Americas completed their five week tour of Poland, Ukraine and Germany with a concert

It took Paul Fegan three years to make ‘Where You’re Meant to Be’.
It’s 1967, the Edinburgh International Festival is a youthful 20 years old.
The soloists performing this morning at the Queen’s Hall chamber recital were the French Canadian cellist

We began with the Enescu recital - the two Romanian Rhapsodies are by far the best loved of his compositions