The original "official" festival
Edinburgh International Festival
This is the second play in a trilogy being produced by Teatro Cinema, the new experimental theatre company…
The opera tells the story of a successful advertising executive, Harry Joy, who lived on the outskirts of a…
Every morning during the Edinburgh International Festival the Queen’s Hall is the focal point for chamber…
James Thiérrée, acrobat, clown, actor, illusionist, musician, has pockets bursting at the seams with artistic…
We began with the Enescu recital - the two Romanian Rhapsodies are by far the best loved of his compositions…
Every seat was filled for the first of two concerts at the Usher Hall which started the Baltimore Symphony…
Works from three of the world’s greatest ever composers: the programme for tonight’s concert was tantalising…
The Opening Concert set a very high standard with a particularly impressive Haydn’s The Creation.
Last night’s concert at the Usher Hall was with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Founded in 1765 it is one…
This is the 450th anniversary of the birth in Italy of Monteverdi. The world of opera was at its beginning.
To illustrate the universality of music, the ensemble playing at this morning’s Queen’s Hall recital came…
This year's Edinburgh International Festival finished with a concert in Princes Street Gardens - a concert in…
Sir James MacMillan conducted the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in three works which had received their…
Every morning during the Edinburgh International three week festival, chamber concerts are held in the Queens…
Eighteen semi finalists arrived in Edinburgh at the weekend, all aged 18 or under, to try to reach the finals…
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was commissioned to write a work to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the…
For half an hour Sarah Connolly CBE entranced us as she sung six of Alma Mahler's lieder, German romantic…
In 2007, Dr. Hugo Slim produced his book ‘Killing Civilians; Method, Madness and Morality in War’.
At the EIF 2010, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch performed Agua, a vibrant, vivacious vision of Brazilian…
That was a dazzling performance from one of the world’s greatest orchestras.