Edinburgh International Festival
The original "official" festival
With the exception of ‘Waiting for Godot’, ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ is probably Samuel Beckett’s best-known play,…
A dark, chilling ambience envelops the fog shrouded set where you can just make out an old Belfast sink, the…
This is the Little Mermaid as you have never seen it. The original Anderson tale of 1837 is, a Meow Meow…
EG dance editor Vivian Devlin previews the Edinburgh International Festival programme.
The Opening Concert at the Usher Hall on Saturday 5th August begins with Haydn’s Surprise Symphony, just as…
Festival Director Fergus Linehan has given us nine operas this year, more than usual. He has told us of the…
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…