The original "official" festival
Edinburgh International Festival
It is probably unique for the composer to take a curtain call at the premiere of an opera at the Edinburgh…
The Deborah Colker Dance Company's Tatyana is a stunning event. Based on Pushkin's poem Onegin, it…
Vadim Gluzman was the violin soloist in Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto composed in 1942 when Barber was with…
The playwright Guillermo Calderon, born 1971 in Santiago, grew up during the military dictatorship of…
Celebrating its 40th birthday (and a new £11 million Glasgow home), it is timely indeed for Scottish…
Oper Frankfurt’s fantastical offering – supported by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany…
There are fine theatrical moments in Jidariyya, from the opening in a hospital emergency room to its close.…
Birds with Skymirrors is an adventurous, uncompromising show by Samoan choreographer Lemi Ponifasio.
Simon Keenlyside’s acclaimed Queens Hall success in the 2010 festival did not replicate readily in the vaster…
The eminent German choreographer Pina Bausch died in 2009 at the age of just 68.
The concert at the Usher Hall with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra opened with Ravel's composition Le Tombeau…
“Everybody is rushing, running, trying to escape almost certain death in this hail of enemy shells. Today I…
Some of the pieces in this year’s Edinburgh International Festival create a mirror-like effect, with each…
“Four men from the rebel Syrian Army check their assault rifles and sling them over their shoulders. Their…
Everything was as it should be for Elgar's The Apostles.
Born in 1809 into an affluent, intellectual Jewish family who converted to Christianity, Felix Mendelssohn…
The story of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Mathew Passion is taken from Martin Luther’s German translation of…
Israel in Egypt, the fifth of the nineteen oratorios which George Frideric Handel composed in England, was…
Today's concert at the Queen's Hall was with the Venezuelan pianist Gabriel Montero.
The Wooster Group of New York specialise in experimental work, often taking a classic play, dissecting the…