The original "official" festival
Edinburgh International Festival
Currently dominating the advertising for the EIF, Alan Ayckbourn’s new play The Divide, in two parts, can…
Haydn's Nelson Mass is full of surprises not least in its flamboyant soprano opening. Are we really listening…
Concert performances of operas are often merely static shadows of fully-staged performances, but this double-…
The theme of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's concert at the Usher Hall was Shakespeare's play A Midsummer…
The Kronos Quartet received an ecstatic reception at the Usher Hall, their first appearance at the Edinburgh…
Celebrating its 40th birthday (and a new £11 million Glasgow home), it is timely indeed for Scottish…
Situated in Old College, the Playfair Library is the most sumptuous environment for Rudolf Buchbinder to have…
This was the first of two concerts where the instruments played correspond to those in use at the time the…
Iestyn Davies was a choir boy in the chapel of St John’s College Cambridge, went on to be a countertenor at…
The programme changes every day at the Queen's Hall during the International Festival period, but all…
“Everybody is rushing, running, trying to escape almost certain death in this hail of enemy shells. Today I…
Lo Real is an intense and uncomfortable theatrical experience that apparently does not appeal to everyone.
The Edinburgh International Festival launched its 2011 eclectic programme last night in traditional fashion…
From the moment each member of the Australian Chamber Orchestra marched on stage, we knew we were in for…
Tazieh is the folk-drama of Shi'a Islam, in
which the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet…
Silviu Purcarete's freely adapted version of Goethe's Faust, held in an aircraft hangar sized hall at the…
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra waited until the last minute before all the players came on to the stage.
The concert celebrated the fifty six year relationship Pierre Boulez had with the Edinburgh International…
There are fine theatrical moments in Jidariyya, from the opening in a hospital emergency room to its close.…
“Four men from the rebel Syrian Army check their assault rifles and sling them over their shoulders. Their…