Edinburgh International Festival

The original "official" festival

ā€˜Caledonia’ is an undeniably ambitious undertaking, rather like the project it seeks to portray. Remembered…
ā€˜Every light casts a shadow; every fire ends in dust’. So reads the programme note to Anything That Gives Off…
The final chamber concert in the Edinburgh International Festival Queen’s Hall series was with three…
We began with the Enescu recital - the two Romanian Rhapsodies are by far the best loved of his compositions…
The Edinburgh International Festival morning chamber concerts and recitals at the Queens Hall are always a…
A dark, chilling ambience envelops the fog shrouded set where you can just make out an old Belfast sink, the…
As the Edinburgh International Festival tackles the ā€œthundering hoovesā€ of rival UK festivals (notably…
Put Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh in the same space and watch the sparks fly.
The Queen's Hall was full to capacity, and the performance commenced on time at 11.00am.
Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) is synonymous with a risk-taking sense of rebellion, demonstrating, time and…
It’s 1967, the Edinburgh International Festival is a youthful 20 years old.
The opera tells the story of a successful advertising executive, Harry Joy, who lived on the outskirts of a…
This is the Little Mermaid as you have never seen it. The original Anderson tale of 1837 is, a Meow Meow…
To illustrate the universality of music, the ensemble playing at this morning’s Queen’s Hall recital came…
The Orchestra of the Americas completed their five week tour of Poland, Ukraine and Germany with a concert…
Dame Mitsuko Uchida must be one of the International Festival's favourite pianists and this concert was…
Peter Brook, often referred to as ā€˜our greatest living theatre director’, has a formidable reputation.
This year's Edinburgh International Festival finished with a concert in Princes Street Gardens - a concert in…
Eighteen semi finalists arrived in Edinburgh at the weekend, all aged 18 or under, to try to reach the finals…
Clearly, this is the world's biggest and most spectacular annual fireworks concert, and an explosive evening…