The original "official" festival
Edinburgh International Festival
The concert at the Usher Hall with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra opened with Ravel's composition Le Tombeau…
It is probably unique for the composer to take a curtain call at the premiere of an opera at the Edinburgh…
Kurt Weill's 1929 work Little Three Penny Music emerged from a darkened stage lit by the music desk lamps for…
A loving and moving cinematic tribute to Scots at work and play.
Full marks to the solo violinist, Baiba Skride, who worked her way through the forty minutes of Sofia…
Other than seeing some of the best young musicians at work, this was not a concert whose programme was…
This autobiographical play is set in a run-down boarding house at 722 Toulouse in the French Quarter,…
It is difficult for the audience to get to grips with the plot of this Janacek opera, which has a number of…
Villa Grimaldi is one of more than 1,200 detention and torture centres in Chile that were operating under the…
The large Cleveland Orchestra – more than 100 musicians – filled the concert platform to bursting point but…
Andrew Davis actively marshalled the large forces required for Britten’s War Requiem into a reasoned,…
As the title suggests this multimedia production centres around the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a…
The play is centred in the lobby of a grand hotel in Ostend.
The Kronos Quartet received an ecstatic reception at the Usher Hall, their first appearance at the Edinburgh…
See, the conqu'ring hero comes!
Handel's oratorio tells of the triumph of the Jewish warrior-hero Judas…
Situated in Old College, the Playfair Library is the most sumptuous environment for Rudolf Buchbinder to have…
We have to be very brave to talk of death, or more truthfully, of what precedes death.
Walking down to my seat in the front stalls, I quickly see that the Playhouse is packed up to the…
The choice of last night's opening concert of the Edinburgh International Festival was thought by many to be…
Geoff Sobelle is making a house, and a home.