Edinburgh International Festival

The original "official" festival

‘Quickening’ is a majestic meditation on the beginnings of life – inviting us to wonder in awe, but also to
In short, Kate Tempest was amazing. More accurately, the combination of her and a crowd that revelled
An audience of 15,000 gathered at Tynecastle Park, home to Hearts football team, for the
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra, led by conductor Garry Walker, open the Festival Fireworks Concert 2014 in

Eighteen semi finalists arrived in Edinburgh at the weekend, all aged 18 or under, to try to reach the finals

The Edinburgh International Festival morning chamber concerts and recitals at the Queens Hall are always a

Every morning during the Edinburgh International three week festival, chamber concerts are held in the Queens

The musicians of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra were in their places and each practising their own part

Hailed in the EIF brochure as an ‘epic choral masterpiece’, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony was the final Usher Hall

This is the Little Mermaid as you have never seen it. The original Anderson tale of 1837 is, a Meow Meow

This year's Edinburgh International Festival finished with a concert in Princes Street Gardens - a concert in

As the Edinburgh International Festival tackles the “thundering hooves” of rival UK festivals (notably

The Opening Concert set a very high standard with a particularly impressive Haydn’s The Creation.
A dark, chilling ambience envelops the fog shrouded set where you can just make out an old Belfast sink, the

It’s 1967, the Edinburgh International Festival is a youthful 20 years old.
The soloists performing this morning at the Queen’s Hall chamber recital were the French Canadian cellist

‘Every light casts a shadow; every fire ends in dust’. So reads the programme note to Anything That Gives Off

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was commissioned to write a work to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the

Dame Mitsuko Uchida must be one of the International Festival's favourite pianists and this concert was

Théùtre de ComplicitĂ© was co-founded by actor and director Simon McBurney in 1983, a Lecoq-inspired company