The original "official" festival
Edinburgh International Festival
Celebrating its 40th birthday (and a new £11 million Glasgow home), it is timely indeed for Scottish…
It was somewhat disappointing, for this reviewer at least, for what is in effect Finland’s national orchestra…
50 years ago, Yehudi Menuhin founded the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music.
The quiet command and confidence that exuded from Leif Ove Andsnes’ playing was impressive.
The play is centred in the lobby of a grand hotel in Ostend.
Other than seeing some of the best young musicians at work, this was not a concert whose programme was…
Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray is a tale of the obsessive need to remain youthful and…
It is probably unique for the composer to take a curtain call at the premiere of an opera at the Edinburgh…
See, the conqu'ring hero comes!
Handel's oratorio tells of the triumph of the Jewish warrior-hero Judas…
The Rite of Spring, when first performed in 1913, stirred emotions to such an extent that members of the…
Simon Keenlyside’s acclaimed Queens Hall success in the 2010 festival did not replicate readily in the vaster…
It seemed strange to listen to the Christmas story in the middle of August, but that made it all the more…
This massive work, far too big for any liturgical purpose is generally regarded as Bach’s greatest…
The long wait on our feet was worth it.
Sitting in the plush, gilded and chandeliered interior of the Royal Lyceum Theatre, a bevelled double mirror…
As the title suggests this multimedia production centres around the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a…
Barry McGovern, internationally renowned for his interpretations and performances of Beckett, was born and…
Concert performances of operas are often merely static shadows of fully-staged performances, but this double-…
Reviewing this last part of Rona Munro’s triptych of plays on Scotland’s first three Stewart kings feels…
Haydn is not a name that cones readily to mind at the mention of Opera, yet he composed a large number. The…