Edinburgh International Festival

The Edinburgh International Festival announced that next Summer's programme will include a double-helping of the Bard - a comedy and a tragedy.<

An exhibition of photographs from the recent Edinburgh International Festival, entitled The Big Picture, has just opened at

The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra is well-remembered from its five-concert residency at the 2003 Edinburgh International Festival.

An estimated 250,000 people across the Scottish capital watched the Eastern themed Edinburgh International Festival 2011 go out with a bang last night at the annual Edinburgh Fireworks Concert.

It is no surprise that Cold Heat, a new work by Swedish composer Anders Hilberg, opened the Tonhalle Orchestra’s Festival concert.

The Philadelphia Orchestra was the first major orchestra I heard live.

That was a dazzling performance from one of the world’s greatest orchestras.

Jean-Guihen Queyras is an extraordinarily versatile French cellist who played the three large scale movements of Kodály’s Sonata for solo cello as the centrepiece of a delightful morning concert as part of The Queen’s Hall series. He was playing a cello made in 1696 whilst the Hungarian composer’s Sonata was written in 1915 in the midst of the Great War and not performed for another three years.

The final allocation of tickets for the annual Edinburgh Festival Fireworks Concert - this year dubbed the Virgin Money Festival Fireworks after its new sponsor - go on sale on Saturday 3 September at 10.00am. They are only available over the counter at The Hub on Castlehill.

Valery Gergiev has been made the new Honorary President of the Edinburgh International Festival, it was announced tonight.

Haydn is not a name that cones readily to mind at the mention of Opera, yet he composed a large number. The precise number is not known, as some have disappeared without trace, but the titles and production of at least 18 is known and it is accepted that the total could be 25.

Donald Runnicles has instilled new life into the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra as Chief Conductor, along the way carving out growing repute for himself as a Mahler specialist.

The Philharmonia, regarded by many as Britain’s leading orchestra, was in cracking form on its only appearance at this year’s International Festival, performing a balanced programme of

The Edinburgh International Festival and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra launched a new Friend of the Festival Fireworks Concert scheme today.

New York City based the TEAM are this year's recipients of the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize, for their musical drama Mission Drift. The award supports up-and-coming talent at the Edinburgh Fringe by giving the winner the opportunity to develop their ideas or devise a new work for the official Festival.

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) wrote thirty six operas, all within nineteen years. Semiramide is not one of the best known, but it is performed from time to time.

This was the first visit of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra to the Edinburgh Festival and they came in full force and determined to please.

Ravi Shankar has spent decades crossing boundaries, both geographical and musical, whilst remaining among the finest living exponents of Indian classical music.

Simon Keenlyside’s acclaimed Queens Hall success in the 2010 festival did not replicate readily in the vaster Usher hall, though a large - but not capacity - audience was vociferous at the baritone’s polished performance.

For a Canadian orchestra lauded as one of the best French orchestras in the world, it seems a little odd that an International Festival concert should not have any French or Canadian content.