Edinburgh International Festival

The original "official" festival

When the 2017 programme marking the event’s 70th anniversary was unveiled by Director Fergus Linehan on 15th…
The Edinburgh International Festival will mark its 70th year by remembering the spirit of 1947 when the first…
The Standard Life Opening Event marks the start of the 70th Edinburgh International Festival with an epic,…
The Edinburgh International Festival has raked in £4.2 million in income from ticket sales for the first time…
As the Edinburgh International Festival tackles the “thundering hooves” of rival UK festivals (notably…
The Edinburgh International Festival draws to its close tonight with the ever popular annual Virgin Mone
The Gewandhausorchester of Leipzig is one of the most established orchestras in Germany (it was the first…
For half an hour Sarah Connolly CBE entranced us as she sung six of Alma Mahler's lieder, German romantic…
James Thiérrée, acrobat, clown, actor, illusionist, musician, has pockets bursting at the seams with artistic…
Without a doubt the star of the concert was violin soloist, Pekka Kuusisto. I have never seen a soloist so…
It was while the highly respected Walter Hussey was Dean of Chichester Cathedral that he and John Birch, the…
‘Made in Hong Kong, assembled in Fife’ is how musician Andy Chung describes his background. James Connolly,…
‘Every light casts a shadow; every fire ends in dust’. So reads the programme note to Anything That Gives Off…
It was a joy to watch Daniil Trifonov at the piano again. A few years ago his lurching towards the keyboard…
Every morning during the Edinburgh International Festival the Queen’s Hall is the focal point for chamber…
One of the most innovative French choreographers, Angelin Preljocaj is renowned for the range of his work…
Was there ever a more unlikely star than Alan Cumming? The Dundee lad became the toast of Broadway, a Bond…
A stripped back Measure For Measure from Cheek by Jowl and Moscow’s Pushkin Theatre bares the soul of…
All three compositions the Russian pianist Danil Trifonov chose for the performance are rarely performed,…
It took Paul Fegan three years to make ‘Where You’re Meant to Be’.