Edinburgh International Festival

The original "official" festival

In this double bill, we observe contrasting dance pieces – one a European premiere – by two of Australia’s…
Full marks to the solo violinist, Baiba Skride, who worked her way through the forty minutes of Sofia…
The sonorous timbre of The Queen's Hall Steinway No.
Holyrood Park will be closed to vehicle traffic during the end of the Edinburgh Festival Fireworks Display.
The audience may have been slightly unsure what to expect from Russian director, Dmitry Krymov’s  Laboratory…
The Budapest Festival Orchestra won well-deserved vociferous applause from a full Usher Hall for a sparkling…
The large Cleveland Orchestra – more than 100 musicians – filled the concert platform to bursting point but…
It is difficult for the audience to get to grips with the plot of this Janacek opera, which has a number of…
Standing ovations are infrequent in Edinburgh, even at Festival time, but this tour de force concert…
The Juillard School in New York offers successful students the opportunity to study music, dance and drama.
This is a theatrical journey. It will take us from the dawn of a new era, through turbulent times and seas,…
It was a subtle programming idea for the four LSO Festival concerts to offer in apposition symphonies by two…