Edinburgh International Festival

The original "official" festival

‘Quickening’ is a majestic meditation on the beginnings of life – inviting us to wonder in awe, but also to
In short, Kate Tempest was amazing. More accurately, the combination of her and a crowd that revelled
An audience of 15,000 gathered at Tynecastle Park, home to Hearts football team, for the
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra, led by conductor Garry Walker, open the Festival Fireworks Concert 2014 in…
‘Caledonia’ is an undeniably ambitious undertaking, rather like the project it seeks to portray. Remembered…
Every morning during the Edinburgh International three week festival, chamber concerts are held in the Queens…
Every seat was filled for the first of two concerts at the Usher Hall which started the Baltimore Symphony…
James Thiérrée, acrobat, clown, actor, illusionist, musician, has pockets bursting at the seams with artistic…
‘Made in Hong Kong, assembled in Fife’ is how musician Andy Chung describes his background. James Connolly,…
Théâtre de Complicité was co-founded by actor and director Simon McBurney in 1983, a Lecoq-inspired company…
Akram Khan’s trust in the power of collaboration is significantly rewarded in a new piece of work, delivering…
Dame Mitsuko Uchida must be one of the International Festival's favourite pianists and this concert was…
The premiere of Midsummer – a play with songs in Autumn 2008 at the Traverse Theatre was a magical, romantic…
The Edinburgh International Festival morning chamber concerts and recitals at the Queens Hall are always a…
The Orchestra of the Americas completed their five week tour of Poland, Ukraine and Germany with a concert…
As the Edinburgh International Festival tackles the “thundering hooves” of rival UK festivals (notably…
The novella “Carmen” (1845) by Prosper Mérimée, is the story of a wild, seductive gypsy girl who works in a…
Peter Brook, often referred to as ‘our greatest living theatre director’, has a formidable reputation.
Put Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh in the same space and watch the sparks fly.
Anyone who had the privilege of witnessing the extraordinary monologue, Novecento, staged at the EIF in 2001…