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2022-04-04 07:51:02
The 2022 Edinburgh International Festival celebrates the festival's 75th birthday, the final programme by artistic director Fergus Linehan and a return to a full programme in indoor spaces
Edinburgh Festival Theatre (Photo Wikimedia) The final concert of the 2019 Edinburgh International Festival was a performance of Wagner's Gotterdammerung. It could not have been more apt. The 2020 festival did not happen, and 2021 was in somewhat reduced format with the majority of events taking place in semi-outdoor spaces. This year, the festival's 75th anniversary year and Fergus Linehan's final year as artistic director (next year the Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti takes over the role), things are back to normal with a full programme of events in indoor spaces. There is no overall theme, except perhaps one of joy and celebration and as if to emphasise that change from last year, the opening concert will feature 300 people on the stage of the Usher Hall. I spoke to Andrew Moore, the festival's Head of Music to find out more about what will be on offer. Whilst the festival's […]
2018-08-26 09:57:09
Edinburgh Festival Theatre Stefan Herheim’s Lyon Opera production is hyperactively camp – even the conductor has a cameo – but the singing is warm and rich There’s more than a hint of melodrama about Rossini’s Cinderella. Amid the comic touches and the larger than life characters at heart the work is essentially a moral fable: that simply by being kind and good, the poor, downtrodden servant girl really does get to marry the prince and live happily ever after. Not for nothing is the opera subtitled “virtue triumphant”. On its own terms it works beautifully, Cinderella’s pathos thrown into relief by the moments of typical Rossinian comedy. Not that you would guess this from Lyon Opera’s production which the company brought to Edinburgh. Director
2017-08-22 18:12:01
2015-08-24 02:50:54
Confectionary created in the southwest Edinburgh village of Juniper Green added an extra sweet flavour to the second week of this year's Herald Angel Awards at Edinburgh Festival Theatre on Saturday. The sponsorship of the week's awards by Woods Brownie Co meant that each guest was greeted with cake to accompany their morning coffee before the prize-giving began, and could enjoy another for the socialising afterwards.
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