The original "official" festival
Edinburgh International Festival
Owen Wingrave was the result of a commission by the BBC to write an opera for television. It took about five…
Midori astonished me in Hong Kong nearly a quarter of a century ago by her assurance, as a girl barely in her…
The Deborah Colker Dance Company's Tatyana is a stunning event. Based on Pushkin's poem Onegin, it…
The eminent German choreographer Pina Bausch died in 2009 at the age of just 68.
“Requiem” is a rather misleading title for this massive orchestral and choral work: “Sacred Concert”, the…
"There is something in the very name of St. Kilda, which excites expectation. Remote and solitary, the…
Having reviewed Blomdahl’s Aniara, the first space opera, at the 1959 Festival, I was apprehensive about the…
Silviu Purcarete's freely adapted version of Goethe's Faust, held in an aircraft hangar sized hall at the…
Traditional Gaelic song and contemporary music are performed against a backdrop of vintage and modern film.
Everything was as it should be for Elgar's The Apostles.
Anton Bruckner failed to finish his ninth symphony, despite working on it for nine years before his death in…
As part of the Dance programme of this year’s International Festival, L-E-V Dance Company bring sister…
One of the highlights every year on the Edinburgh International Festival programme is the series of chamber…
I AM is a challenging piece that is more to be endured than enjoyed, but if you push on through, you may…
The Hub – home of the Edinburgh International Festival – is hosting a variety of eclectic Café Concerts in…
Today's recital at the Queen's Hall had to be changed at the last minute due to the original performer, Ivan…
A scintillating performance of Rachmaninov’s third Piano Concerto by Nikolai Lugansky made a thrilling…
Samuel Barber’s Music for a Scene from Shelley was his first orchestral work to be performed publicly.
The Rite of Spring, when first performed in 1913, stirred emotions to such an extent that members of the…
This autobiographical play is set in a run-down boarding house at 722 Toulouse in the French Quarter,…