Tag: EIF

On Sunday the second of the opening concerts of the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) was Bach’s St Matthew Passion at the Usher Hall. Conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performed wonderfully...

Although it is not possible to bring large orchestras from overseas this year is regarded as an opportunity for Scottish and UK orchestras to take centre stage at the Edinburgh International Festival. Some of...

Four hours plus of blood soaked, funereal pyre smoked havoc. A charnel house writhing in chaos quivering on foundations of betrayal and immorality. Welcome to the reimagined Mycenae palace of King Agamemnon set in an...

Long before pernicious 'post-truth/alternative fact`doggerel insinuated itself within the lexicon of Trump-speak, Ionesco's sobering voice, though often gagged by Romanian state censorship, had raged against the iniquitous corruption of language. Shouting out loud against many...

Senior Pupils introduce their school as a Festival venue Pupils at Castlebrae Community High School, in the Craigmillar area of Edinburgh, today hosted their own launch of this year’s International Festival. As part of the International Festival’s...

Whether it was modesty, reticence or goodness knows what else, Edinburgh International Festival director – and respected composer – Jonathan Mills had left it until the final concert of his final Festival to programme...

Quadrangularis Reversum, Cloud-Chamber Bowls, Belly Drums, Spoils of War: even just the names of the outlandish instruments invented and constructed by American maverick composer Harry Partch are astonishingly evocative. That’s without even hearing the...

Valery Gergiev is the new Honorary President of the Edinburgh International Festival. The Russian conductor, whose association with the Festival began 20 years ago, is only the third person to be invited to take...