The original "official" festival
Edinburgh International Festival
Israel in Egypt, the fifth of the nineteen oratorios which George Frideric Handel composed in England, was…
The audience may have been slightly unsure what to expect from Russian director, Dmitry Krymov’s …
Brian Friel's play, The Yalta Game, is based on a short story by Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Lapdog,…
There is an old saying “from the sublime to the ridiculous” but at this year’s Edinburgh Festival, for this…
Having reviewed Blomdahl’s Aniara, the first space opera, at the 1959 Festival, I was apprehensive about the…
George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion premiered in London in 1914. It was a satire on class and women’s…
The Budapest Festival Orchestra won well-deserved vociferous applause from a full Usher Hall for a sparkling…
This welcome return by Scottish Opera to the Edinburgh Festival after too-long an absence was better-than…
The reputation of the Czech Pavel Haas Quartet has been gathering momentum since winning the Paolo Borciani…
Edinburgh-born Donald Runnicles has stamped his authority so precisely on the BBC Scottish Symphony orchestra…
That was a dazzling performance from one of the world’s greatest orchestras.
Columbus discovered the New World in 1492 and with it the prospect of new musical traditions.
It was while the highly respected Walter Hussey was Dean of Chichester Cathedral that he and John Birch, the…
Iván Fischer makes you look and listen to opera differently by knitting music and the theatre more closely.
A loving and moving cinematic tribute to Scots at work and play.
Situated in Old College, the Playfair Library is the most sumptuous environment for Rudolf Buchbinder to have…
Physical dexterity is pushed to the extreme in an engrossing but often repetitive evening in this double bill…
It is no surprise that Cold Heat, a new work by Swedish composer Anders Hilberg, opened the Tonhalle…
Hervé Niquet conducted his five choirs, forty voices in all, accompanied by cornett, dulcians, sackbutts,…
The Queen's Hall chamber series today featured a father and daughter recital - Mischa Maisky on cello and…