Edinburgh International Festival

The original "official" festival

The Gewandhausorchester of Leipzig is one of the most established orchestras in Germany (it was the first…
Haydn's Nelson Mass is full of surprises not least in its flamboyant soprano opening. Are we really listening…
For half an hour Sarah Connolly CBE entranced us as she sung six of Alma Mahler's lieder, German romantic…
Ibsen’s pioneering, modernist plays of the late 19th century are set in northern Norway, insular small town…
At the end of the UK premiere of ā€˜Kairos’ last night, Ballett Zurich received a standing ovation from the…
A diverse programme of music spanning 221 years was performed to a capacity (including standees) Queen's Hall…
A group of actors are discovered on stage, straw tails attached to their rears, pawing the ground, whinnying…
As the title suggests this multimedia production centres around the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a…
The Edinburgh International concert at the Usher Hall last night should have included Schumann's Piano…
The Budapest Festival Orchestra won well-deserved vociferous applause from a full Usher Hall for a sparkling…
Israel in Egypt, the fifth of the nineteen oratorios which George Frideric Handel composed in England, was…
For twenty five minutes Scottish percussionist Colin Curry mesmerised the audience as he seemingly pranced…
It is no surprise that Cold Heat, a new work by Swedish composer Anders Hilberg, opened the Tonhalle…
Barry McGovern, internationally renowned for his interpretations and performances of Beckett, was born and…
James Hogg’s 1824 novel Confessions of a Justified Sinner has been described as ā€œstunningly duplicitousā€.…
Art and life are viewed through frames. We start with a photograph, ā€œThe Destroyed Roomā€ by Jeff Wall.
ā€œRequiemā€ is a rather misleading title for this massive orchestral and choral work: ā€œSacred Concertā€, the…
The playwright Guillermo Calderon, born 1971 in Santiago, grew up during the military dictatorship of…
Lo Real is an intense and uncomfortable theatrical experience that apparently does not appeal to everyone.
In the Locked Room Stylishly conducted by Michael Rafferty and with a dazzling array of orchestral colours…