The original "official" festival
Edinburgh International Festival
It seemed strange to listen to the Christmas story in the middle of August, but that made it all the more…
"All children, except one, grow up. Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, "Oh, why can't you…
A seemingly nervous conductor squeezes himself along the front row of the auditorium before falling into the…
The playwright Guillermo Calderon, born 1971 in Santiago, grew up during the military dictatorship of…
Traditional Gaelic song and contemporary music are performed against a backdrop of vintage and modern film.
We needed to cast our minds back to pre reformation times, to the fifteenth century, when music in church was…
A scintillating performance of Rachmaninov’s third Piano Concerto by Nikolai Lugansky made a thrilling…
Ivo Pogorelich excites debate and controversy today as much as he did in 1980 at the Fryderyk…
A stripped back Measure For Measure from Cheek by Jowl and Moscow’s Pushkin Theatre bares the soul of…
We have to be very brave to talk of death, or more truthfully, of what precedes death.
In this double bill, we observe contrasting dance pieces – one a European premiere – by two of Australia’s…
Ibsen’s pioneering, modernist plays of the late 19th century are set in northern Norway, insular small town…
It is no surprise that Cold Heat, a new work by Swedish composer Anders Hilberg, opened the Tonhalle…
This massive work, far too big for any liturgical purpose is generally regarded as Bach’s greatest…
It's late and the lighting in The Hub theatre is so dim that it becomes impossible to read the free…
Hervé Niquet conducted his five choirs, forty voices in all, accompanied by cornett, dulcians, sackbutts,…
“Everybody is rushing, running, trying to escape almost certain death in this hail of enemy shells. Today I…
The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra is well-remembered from its five-concert residency at the 2003 Edinburgh…
Samuel Barber’s Music for a Scene from Shelley was his first orchestral work to be performed publicly.
The programme changes every day at the Queens Hall during the International Festival period, but all concerts…