The original "official" festival
Edinburgh International Festival
The last two years were tough on live, performing arts, but with signs that the worst of the pandemic is re
This year’s 2022 Edinburgh International Festival, which ended on Sunday, marked Fergus Linehan’s last as F
Since the Edinburgh International Festival of 2015 the man in over-all charge has been Fergus Linehan.
If there could be one word to summarise this performance, it would be ‘joy’.
Handel’s epic oratorio majestically narrates the famous biblical drama, which would have been so familiar t
Mozart was a fan of the clarinet, a fairly new instrument in his day.
It doesn't fit comfortably when the conductor tells us we are to have an unprogrammed starter instead of an
There was an electric atmosphere in the Leith Theatre – a fantastic venue to be at, and one of the more rec
For the third year running the Edinburgh International Festival will not be climaxing with the traditional
The sad death earlier in the year at the age of 44 of a former Cor Anglais player of the Royal Scottish Nat
Making their Festival debut, this performance from the Australian World Orchestra (AWO) was a real highpoin
Under Semyon Bychkov, their conductor since 2018, the mighty Czech Philharmonic showed us how Mahler's
Samsara is inspired by Wu Cheng’en’s 16th century Chinese novel ‘Journey to the West’, relating a fantastical…
We had expected to hear Tan Dun's Percussion Concerto: The Tears of Nature but Austrian-born percussionist
One of the fascinations was to watch the two choirs, each of eleven singers, move from station to station o
With the music so carefully reflecting the cultures he experienced, we felt that we were truly travelling w
The comic ballet, Coppélia by Delibes, first staged in Paris, 1870, relates the story of Doctor Co
‘What am I’, Medea asks Jason in a final bitter, brief encounter, ‘tigress, h
As part of the cultural programme, Refuge, Windows of Displacement is an autobiographical memoir b
If Drifters combined with Fleabag and added just a hint of B