Edinburgh International Festival

The original "official" festival

It is probably unique for the composer to take a curtain call at the premiere of an opera at the Edinburgh…
Edinburgh based Scottish Chamber Orchestra was conducted by its own Robin Ticciati.
Natalia Osipova is taking a break from the day-job as Principal Dancer with The Royal Ballet to try her hand…
A soaring polyphony on the grief and waste of war.
The last witch burning in Scotland in the early 18th century, enacted at this year's Edinburgh International…
Heiner Goebbels, the German avant-garde composer, has transposed texts from four of the most influential…
The story of Electra, so typical of the myths and legends of Ancient Greece, has murder and revenge at its…
Born in 1809 into an affluent, intellectual Jewish family who converted to Christianity, Felix Mendelssohn…
Every morning throughout the Edinburgh International Festival there is a chamber concert at the Queen's Hall.
For twenty five minutes Scottish percussionist Colin Curry mesmerised the audience as he seemingly pranced…
At 11am on Wednesday 28 August 2013, the morning after his performance of Bruch Violin no.
We have to be very brave to talk of death, or more truthfully, of what precedes death.
The Sixteen have gained a worldwide reputation since establishment by Harry Christophers in 1979.
After rustling with anticipation, an excitedly packed-out Usher Hall suddenly exploded with elation to…
For Angelin Preljocaj, the key word in any artistic endeavour is ā€˜collaboration’, his priority ā€˜change’.
James Hogg’s 1824 novel Confessions of a Justified Sinner has been described as ā€œstunningly duplicitousā€.…
Anton Bruckner failed to finish his ninth symphony, despite working on it for nine years before his death in…
Georgian sacred and folk music is quite distinctive. Unlike European and other a cappella songs, their…
Villa Grimaldi is one of more than 1,200 detention and torture centres in Chile that were operating under the…
Today's recital at the Queen's Hall had to be changed at the last minute due to the original performer, Ivan…