The original "official" festival
Edinburgh International Festival
Sounding brass and clashing cymbals!
This flagship drama of the 2015 EIF, with screen star Juliet Binoche in a leading role, was highly…
Other than seeing some of the best young musicians at work, this was not a concert whose programme was…
This sole Festival appearance by one of the world’s great orchestras, playing a massive symphony by a great…
"I myself, meanwhile, after innumerable attempts, had laid down a final form; a flag with a red background, a…
In this double bill, we observe contrasting dance pieces – one a European premiere – by two of Australia’s…
The sonorous timbre of The Queen's Hall Steinway No.
Purcell’s best known opera was given a radical new twist by Frankfurt Opera, who contracted three acts into…
The Kronos Quartet received an ecstatic reception at the Usher Hall, their first appearance at the Edinburgh…
We have to be very brave to talk of death, or more truthfully, of what precedes death.
With the double basses raised and along the back of the orchestra, and with twelve violas at the front to the…
In 2007, Dr. Hugo Slim produced his book ‘Killing Civilians; Method, Madness and Morality in War’.
Some of the pieces in this year’s Edinburgh International Festival create a mirror-like effect, with each…
Lo Real is an intense and uncomfortable theatrical experience that apparently does not appeal to everyone.
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) wrote thirty six operas, all within nineteen years. Semiramide is not one of…
The Rite of Spring, when first performed in 1913, stirred emotions to such an extent that members of the…
Film Noir meets modern technology and the consequences are both thought provoking and impressive.
“Requiem” is a rather misleading title for this massive orchestral and choral work: “Sacred Concert”, the…
Heiner Goebbels, the German avant-garde composer, has transposed texts from four of the most influential…
Brian Friel's play, The Yalta Game, is based on a short story by Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Lapdog,…