Edinburgh International Festival

The original "official" festival

Anna Calvi stands transfixed in spotlights while shredding electricity from her fingertips like a Young God…
This is one of those "only in Edinburgh" moments. A brass band floats down the Union Canal in Edinburgh…
Lo Real is an intense and uncomfortable theatrical experience that apparently does not appeal to everyone.
Iván Fischer makes you look and listen to opera differently by knitting music and the theatre more closely.
James Hogg’s 1824 novel Confessions of a Justified Sinner has been described as “stunningly duplicitous”.…
Mozart is believed to have visited Prague three times. His Symphony No 38 was first performed there on his…
Last night’s concert with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the second of its two EIF concerts, featured…
It's late and the lighting in The Hub theatre is so dim that it becomes impossible to read the free…
Robert Lepage and his creative team, collectively known as Ex Machina, reconstruct memories from his past in…
Failing to fall asleep is young Tommy, tormented by nightmares not of monsters but of the death of his mother…
A loving and moving cinematic tribute to Scots at work and play.
This flagship drama of the 2015 EIF, with screen star Juliet Binoche in a leading role, was highly…