The original "official" festival
Edinburgh International Festival
The story of Electra, so typical of the myths and legends of Ancient Greece, has murder and revenge at its…
The theme of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's concert at the Usher Hall was Shakespeare's play A Midsummer…
I've been a regular at the end-of-festival Fireworks for some years and this year's was the best yet.
The last witch burning in Scotland in the early 18th century, enacted at this year's Edinburgh International…
This welcome return by Scottish Opera to the Edinburgh Festival after too-long an absence was better-than…
Camille O’Sullivan is a beguiling, unassuming tour de force.
Arriving at the Festival Theatre, a man was standing outside making a general plea, “Does anyone have a spare…
We needed to cast our minds back to pre reformation times, to the fifteenth century, when music in church was…
Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn -
Robert Burns
For someone lured into appreciation of classical music by the voice of Kathleen Ferrier this concert was a “…
The sonorous timbre of The Queen's Hall Steinway No.
This was the first of two concerts where the instruments played correspond to those in use at the time the…
The Tell-Tale Heart is an adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe gothic, dark tale. A gripping monologue, we are…
William Alexander was delighted with his audience of over a hundred Chopin enthusiasts for a lunchtime…
It was a subtle programming idea for the four LSO Festival concerts to offer in apposition symphonies by two…
This autobiographical play is set in a run-down boarding house at 722 Toulouse in the French Quarter,…
Jean-Guihen Queyras is an extraordinarily versatile French cellist who played the three large scale movements…
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra gave a capacity Festival audience an evening to remember with a programme…
Art and life are viewed through frames. We start with a photograph, “The Destroyed Room” by Jeff Wall.
The large Cleveland Orchestra – more than 100 musicians – filled the concert platform to bursting point but…