Tag: Edinburgh International Festival 2018

The 2018 Edinburgh International Festival ended last evening with the Virgin Money Fireworks Concert. Drawing hundreds of thousands of Festival-goers from more than 80 countries, the three-week International Festival staged some of the world’s...

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And not a glass slipper to be seen...Ingenious optical illusions, sumptuous video projections and unstoppable comedy. Renowned Norwegian director Stefan Herheim’s extraordinary production of Rossini’s effervescent Cinderella opera is stuffed full of ideas and comic...

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What makes a house into a home?You are cordially invited to a magical house party on the grandest scale. HOME builds an entire house before your very eyes, and then explores how it turns into...

  As resident company at the 2018 International Festival, the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord brings three contrasting yet equally daring works to Edinburgh. Peter Brook is among the most influential figures in international theatre,...

'My crime wasn't doing something. My crime was being something. Being different in a way everyone else could see.'  Born into poverty in an isolated village in rural France, a boy grows up amongst hard...

John Gay’s 18th-century opera brought forward into the modern daySwarming with highwaymen, thieves, jailors, pimps and prostitutes, John Gay’s savagely satirical and wildly entertaining ‘ballad opera’ invites you into a world of greed, crime,...

Edinburgh's City Youth Cafe hosts Canada's National Youth OrchestraA number of members of Canada's NYO performed an extract earlier today from their upcoming Usher Hall concert at the 6VT Edinburgh City Youth Cafe in...

Part 2 of L-E-V Dance Company's 'Love Cycle'Sharon Eyal is one of the most exciting choreographic talents to emerge in recent years. Working with multimedia designer Gai Behar, she formed L-E-V Dance Company, creating...

Spooky fun for all the family....A spellbinding spectacle for children from seven years old and their families, Hocus Pocus weaves together dance, theatre, visual art and bewitching lighting to tell a wondrous story of...

First piece in the two-part 'Love Cycle'.One of the most exciting choreographic talents to emerge in recent years, Sharon Eyal, worked with multimedia designer Gai Behar, and formed L-E-V Dance Company, creating work that is...

15,000 free tickets for this year's opening event will be released on Monday 2 July 2018. The Aberdeen Standard Investments Opening Event - Five Telegrams will be a sound and light spectacular that we are...