Edinburgh International Festival
11 - 31 August

The official festival was launched in in 1947 as a stage for peace and unity in Europe after the Second World War. Since then it has become dwarfed by the other festivals that have sprung up around it, in particular the Festival Fringe. However, as in previous years, the programme still includes some of the world's best opera, theatre, orchestras and ballet companies.



Read our comprehensive preview of the EIF Theatre Programme

EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL REVIEWS

EIF THEATRE

• The Blind, a Technological Phantasmagoria

• The Girl On The Sofa

• La Cuisine

• Macbeth

• Maria Stuart

• Pritham Chakravarthy

• Variety

EIF MUSIC

• Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert

• Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert Preview

• Composers' Ensemble

• Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff and Robert Hill

• Das Lied Von Der Erde

• The Janacek Quartet

• Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

• NO TO NO WORLD PREMIERE

• Oedipe: Opera by Georges Enescu

• Oedipus Rex, preceded by Symphony of Psalms

• Orchestre National de Lyon

• Parsifal: Opera by Richard Wagner

• Piazzolla Quintets

• Pyatt Nikolitch Le Sage

• Richard Goode: Piano Recital

• Siegfried: Opera by Richard Wagner

• The Turn Of The Screw

EIF DANCE

• Conjunto Di Nero (Conjunction Of Black)

• Swan Lake - Royal Ballet of Flanders


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