The original "official" festival
Edinburgh International Festival
The long wait on our feet was worth it.
"There is something in the very name of St. Kilda, which excites expectation. Remote and solitary, the…
Expectations of the Russian National Orchestra performance at this year's EIF were high and its…
With the double basses raised and along the back of the orchestra, and with twelve violas at the front to the…
Other than seeing some of the best young musicians at work, this was not a concert whose programme was…
Film Noir meets modern technology and the consequences are both thought provoking and impressive.
Israel in Egypt, the fifth of the nineteen oratorios which George Frideric Handel composed in England, was…
Celebrating its 40th birthday (and a new £11 million Glasgow home), it is timely indeed for Scottish…
Good theatre is like the elixir of life and Brian Friel's play Faith Healer is a theatrical experience.…
Art and life are viewed through frames. We start with a photograph, “The Destroyed Room” by Jeff Wall.
The play is centred in the lobby of a grand hotel in Ostend.
The opening concert was as Italian as you can get, and impressive it was.
One of a series of talks aimed at re-examining aspects of the First World War and of other conflicts, Dr.
Edinburgh-born Donald Runnicles has stamped his authority so precisely on the BBC Scottish Symphony orchestra…
A diverse programme of music spanning 221 years was performed to a capacity (including standees) Queen's Hall…
This is the sixth successive year that The Sixteen has appeared at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Haydn's Nelson Mass is full of surprises not least in its flamboyant soprano opening. Are we really listening…
Haydn is not a name that cones readily to mind at the mention of Opera, yet he composed a large number. The…
This is a theatrical journey. It will take us from the dawn of a new era, through turbulent times and…
A stripped back Measure For Measure from Cheek by Jowl and Moscow’s Pushkin Theatre bares the soul of…