Edinburgh international festival will explore America’s creativity and cruelty, says director August festival presents largest-ever jazz programme alongside full-scale operas and Scottish folk music

The #MangoMussolini has desecrated the #KennedyCentre, but Americans will be more than welcome to enjoy a feast of culture from the Americas at the #EdinburghInternationalFestival

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As You Like It: A Radical Retelling, Edinburgh International Festival 2025 review - breathtakingly audacious, deeply shocking There is, let’s be honest, a certain self-congratulatory self-satisfaction among some particularly well-heeled sections of the Edinburgh International Festival audience, event-goers who’ve forked out ...

★★★★ AS YOU LIKE IT: A RADICAL RETELLING #EdinburghInternationalFestival 2025 - A cunning ruse leaves audiences facing their own privilege and complicity in #CliffCardinal's bold theatrical creation - 'breathtakingly audacious, deeply shocking', says David Kettle www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/you-...

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Faustus in Africa!, Edinburgh International Festival 2025 review - deeply flawed What new light can the age-old legend of Faust selling his soul to the devil shed on colonialism in Africa, slavery, the rape and destruction of the natural world, the exploitation and murder of the c...

★★ FAUSTUS IN AFRICA! #EdinburghInternationalFestival 2025 - Bringing the #Faust legend to comment on colonialism produces bewildering results - and this production from #HandspringPuppetCompany and #WilliamKentridge is deeply flawed, says David Kettle www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/faus...

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📣 REVIEW | MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS at Edinburgh International Festival

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💬 “a work of rare ambition: visually striking, musically daring, dramatically urgent”

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Well this was amazing. A punk ballet of the life of Mary Queen of Scots? Yes please! #edinburghinternationalfestival

Frang, Romaniw, Liverman, LSO, Pappano, Edinburgh International Festival 2025 review - sunlight, salt spray, Sea Symphony Right from the bracing brass fanfare that began this Sea Symphony, you know exactly where you were: right in the midst of the deck, with the spray in your face and the wind in your hair.

★★★★★ #VildeFrang #NatalyaRomaniw #WillLiverman @londonsymphony.bsky.social #AntonioPappano #EdinburghInternationalFestival 2025 - Full force of the midday sea in the #UsherHall, with the best captain at the helm - Simon Thompson on sunlight, salt spray & Sea Symphony theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

Orpheus and Eurydice, Opera Queensland/SCO, Edinburgh International Festival 2025 review - dazzling, but distracting There’s a lot to shout about in this Orpheus, especially the way it looks. In a thin year for staged opera at the Edinburgh International Festival, they’ve gone for an eye-popper with this staging of ...

ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE #OperaQueensland #SCO #EdinburghInternationalFestival 2025 - Eye-popping acrobatics don’t always assist in Gluck’s quest for operatic truth - dazzling but distracting, says Simon Thompson, but an opera production unlike anything he has seen before theartsdesk.com/opera/orpheu...

14 August 2025

#EdinburghFringe
Pleasance Courtyard
- Dear Annie, I Hate You
- God Is Dead And I Killed Him
- Fly, You Fools!
- Lunchbox

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Church Hill Theatre
- Cutting The Tightrope

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Female aerialist, with long, blonde, hair, on silks.

Female aerialist, with long, brown, hair, dressed in red, on a silk, with two blindfolded women in red dresses, behind.

A woman and a man on a bed, which is presented vertically, with a woman in red, with long brown hair, standing over them.

Circus and Opera? Don't mind if I do! Brilliant combo. #orpheusandeurydice #circa #scottishopera #operaaustralia #operaqueensland #EIF #EdinburghInternationalFestival #Playhouse #ScottishChamberOrchestra

Elschenbroich, Grynyuk / Fibonacci Quartet, Edinburgh International Festival 2025 review - mahogany Brahms and explosive Janáček Leonard Elschenbroich and Alexei Grynyuk crafted a fine programme for their EIF recital, centring around Brahms’ relationship with the Schumanns. He famously met them in 1853, when Robert Schumann dec...

String partnerships demonstrate brilliant listening as well as first rate playing, in mahogany #Brahms and explosive #Janáček - ★★★★ #LeonardElschenbroich #AlexeiGrynyuk / ★★★★ #FibonacciQuartet #EdinburghInternationalFestival 2025 - review by Simon Thompson www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

LSO and Pappano on great form at the Usher Hall this evening #edinburghinternationalfestival

✨World premiere of Dance People by the Lebanese–French dance company, Maqamat, and what a night it was!

Amazing to see everyone getting involved. This is exactly what the Edinburgh Festival is all about!

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It was a joy to see Edinburgh University and EIF come together to support the world premiere of Dance People in the beautiful Old College Quad. The atmosphere was wonderful, and the audience’s enthusiasm made the evening truly special.

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Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer, Edinburgh International Festival 2025 review - mania and menuets Fresh from their triumph at the Proms, the Budapest Festival Orchestra arrived at the Edinburgh International Festival with a programme that centred on dance, and culminated in as fine a performance o...

★★★★ #BudapestFestivalOrchestra #IvánFischer #EdinburghInternationalFestival 2025 - The Hungarians bring dance music to Edinburgh, but Fischer’s pastiche falls flat - Simon Thompson on mania and menuets www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

Works and Days, Edinburgh International Festival 2025 review - jaw-dropping theatrical ambition With the sheer density of theatrical creations jostling for attention across Edinburgh’s festivals, there’s no shortage of arresting stagings, innovative visuals and powerful, memorable design. (Just ...

'Jaw-dropping theatrical ambition' ★★★★ WORKS AND DAYS #EdinburghInternationalFestival 2025 - Nothing less than the history of human civilisation is the theme of #FCBergman's visually stunning show, says David Kettle www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/work...

I've avoided playing Mendelssohn's Elijah for decades as it hurts so much to play (much stamina required!) but ahead of @rsno.bsky.social 's performance at #EdinburghInternationalFestival I'm listening to it and reminding myself what a gorgeous, lush piece of music it is. Can't wait!

Kolesnikov, Tsoy / Liu, NCPA Orchestra, Chung, Edinburgh International Festival 2025 review - transfigured playing and heavenly desire Say what you like about this year’s slimmer-than-usual Edinburgh International Festival, but when it has hit the spot, it has done so triumphantly. Nowhere has that so far been truer than in the piano...

Transfigured playing and heavenly desire, as three star pianists work wonders, and an orchestra dazzles ★★★★★ #PavelKolesnikov #SamsonTsoy / ★★★★ #BruceLiu #NCPAOrchestra #MyungWhunChung #EdinburghInternationalFestival 2025 - review by Simon Thompson www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

Really looking forward to this! One of my favourite pieces of music.
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Make It Happen, Edinburgh International Festival 2025 review - tutting at naughtiness You could distinctly hear the murmurs of recognition from the Edinburgh audience – responding to knowing mentions of the city’s Leith and Morningside areas, the building of Royal Bank of Scotland’s im...

★★★★ MAKE IT HAPPEN #EdinburghInternationalFestival 2025 - #JamesGraham's dazzling comedy-drama on the rise and fall of #RBS fails to snarl - David Kettle enjoys the sparky humour, but finds any dark heart missing www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/make...

Edinburgh 2025: The Best of the Best – Top Theatre Shows at the Fringe & International Festival | West End Theatre Edinburgh in August is a feast of theatre. Between the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), the city hosts every possible type of theatre in every possible type of...

Edinburgh 2025: The Best of the Best – Top Theatre Shows at the Fringe & International Festival

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Our annual comparison of the top picks from leading publications, compiled into a “Best of the Best” for the #EdinburghFringe & #EdinburghInternationalFestival

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I’m back singing tonight at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo with @singinthecity.bsky.social.

I’m excited to be performing with an audience tonight… there’s a few videos up already on YouTube from the Press Night yesterday which look amazing.

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Leaflet programme for “Make it Happen” at the Edinburgh International Festival

My first show this year of the Festival! #MakeitHappen – a brilliant satire on RBS’ role in the banking crash. Well worth seeing #EdIntFest #EdinburghInternationalFestival

I dunno how I feel about this. It wasn’t what I expected. music and singing, but not a musical. Quite a few laughs, but not a comedy. Acting first class - both the leads superb, Brian Cox brings the comedy! I enjoyed it. But.. #makeithappen #Edinburgh #edfringe25 #edinburghinternationalfestival

The Warm Up: Make it Happen The Warm Up 2025 · Episode

If you are interested in the global financial crisis, Adam Smith and Fred the Shred then you will want to know that Make It Happen opens on the Edinburgh Festival today and featured the Scottish banker and the Scottish economist.
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Swing by The Broomhouse Hub TOMORROW (Thursday, 24 Aug.) for FREE ice cream & FREE @edintfest.bsky.social tickets.

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White paper with green handwriting reads: 'I always... I sometimes... I never...'

People sit or stand around a rectangular table with papers and drinks on top of it.

White paper with colourful handwriting says things like: 'Gives emotions a voice. Can you imagine if there wasn't music? Inspire and motivate. Makes you feel better. Certain songs if you want a cry. Celine Dion... SING IT!'

As part of @spacebroomhouse.bsky.social's ongoing partnership with the #EdinburghInternationalFestival, members of our #PHEW group discussed the parallels between mental health & music.

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