An eight-hour choral extravaganza of a universal prayer is to open the Edinburgh International Festival at the Usher Hall.

With tickets for this year’s Edinburgh International Festival now on sale, Scotsman critics Kelly Apter, Joyce McMillan, Fiona Shepherd and Ken Walton offer their first impressions of this year’s prog ...

Organisers say public funding for the Edinburgh International Festival has declined by 40% in the past decade. Creative Scotland has closed a major fund for artists to create new work amid budget ...

The Edinburgh International Festival has announced its 2025 programme, showcasing opera, music, theatre, and dance from 1 to 24 August. This year’s theme is “The Truth We Seek”, following last year’s ...

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THIS year's Edinburgh International Festival offers a wide range of performances across multiples genres. Featuring more than 1,700 artists from 42 countries, including 600 from Scotland ...

Director Brett Bailey discusses his work at the 2014 Edinburgh International Festival. Moving, vital, disturbing, unbearable, essential… just some of the words reviewers have used to describe ...

And no, sorry, sleeping does not count. We ask because that will be the length of the Edinburgh International Festival’s opening performance – a piece of classical music called The Veil of the ...

The East and South East Asian Lit Fest has partnered with Edinburgh International Book Festival and Cheltenham Literature ...

An eight-hour choral extravaganza of a universal prayer is to open the Edinburgh International Festival at the Usher Hall. John Tavener's The Veil of the Temple will be performed by Edinburgh Festival ...