The original "official" festival
Edinburgh International Festival
What country, friends, is this? Why, this is Illyria, a slightly shabby sea-side resort where end-of-the-…
Walking down to my seat in the front stalls, I quickly see that the Playhouse is packed up to the…
Ravi Shankar has spent decades crossing boundaries, both geographical and musical, whilst remaining among the…
The Deborah Colker Dance Company's Tatyana is a stunning event. Based on Pushkin's poem Onegin, it…
Iestyn Davies was a choir boy in the chapel of St John’s College Cambridge, went on to be a countertenor at…
Hocus Pocus tends to bring witches, cauldrons and rhyming incantations to the forefront of the mind, but in…
Donald Runnicles has instilled new life into the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra as Chief Conductor, along…
"I myself, meanwhile, after innumerable attempts, had laid down a final form; a flag with a red background, a…
At 11am on Wednesday 28 August 2013, the morning after his performance of Bruch Violin no.
James Hogg’s 1824 novel Confessions of a Justified Sinner has been described as “stunningly duplicitous”.…
Puccini’s seventh opera La Fanciulla, better known to most of us as The Girl of the Golden West, had a…
The long wait on our feet was worth it.
As a refreshing change from the formal, fully staged performances, this selection of short small scale…
There are fine theatrical moments in Jidariyya, from the opening in a hospital emergency room to its close.…
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment make you listen again to Haydn.
Under Sir Roger Norrington they put…
L.A. Dance Project is an artist collective co-founded in 2012 by the choreographer/dancer Benjamin Millepied…
There are elements to the 2013 EIF programme which are forever 1970s’s America, with performances by Philip…
For twenty five minutes Scottish percussionist Colin Curry mesmerised the audience as he seemingly pranced…
Every morning throughout the Edinburgh International Festival there is a chamber concert at the Queen's Hall.
It may have been that some in the audience had come for The Planet's and knew they had to put up with the…