The original "official" festival
Edinburgh International Festival
Every seat was filled for the first of two concerts at the Usher Hall which started the Baltimore Symphony…
The Orchestra of the Americas completed their five week tour of Poland, Ukraine and Germany with a concert…
The soloists performing this morning at the Queen’s Hall chamber recital were the French Canadian cellist…
Hailed in the EIF brochure as an ‘epic choral masterpiece’, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony was the final Usher Hall…
‘Caledonia’ is an undeniably ambitious undertaking, rather like the project it seeks to portray. Remembered…
Dame Mitsuko Uchida must be one of the International Festival's favourite pianists and this concert was…
Sir James MacMillan conducted the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in three works which had received their…
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…
It is completely fitting that a play written in France by an Irish playwright that first made its name in…
Last night’s concert at the Usher Hall was with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Founded in 1765 it is one…
The premiere of Midsummer – a play with songs in Autumn 2008 at the Traverse Theatre was a magical, romantic…
Théâtre de Complicité was co-founded by actor and director Simon McBurney in 1983, a Lecoq-inspired company…
It took Paul Fegan three years to make ‘Where You’re Meant to Be’.
We began with the Enescu recital - the two Romanian Rhapsodies are by far the best loved of his compositions…
The Opening Concert set a very high standard with a particularly impressive Haydn’s The Creation.
What should you do if two men walk on stage, then, for no apparent reason whatsoever, one of them suddenly…
That was a dazzling performance from one of the world’s greatest orchestras.
The colour and samba beat of Latin America fills the Festival Theatre with an exhilarating performance by the…
“It’s a kind of furtiveness, a weariness with all the conventions of the world so I guess you might say we’re…