Search: Edinburgh International Festival - Edinburgh Festival Guide

Wind Instruments in Period Performance Period performance has been famously dubbed ‘the most modern sound around’. Clarinettist and Director of the Royal College of Music Professor Colin Lawson discusses the value of using period instruments  today with Alexander Hayward of National Museums Scotland. Tuesday 20 August 2.30pm Lecture Theatre, National Museum of Scotland Tickets £6 1 hour approximately

Beckett on Film: A rare opportunity to experience the 19 films, shorts and features,from many different filmmakers and actors, of the Beckett on Filmproject produced by Michael Colgan and Alan Moloney.
What Where     Directed by Damien O’Donnell and starring Sean McGinley and.Gary.LewisFootfalls            Directed by Walter Asmus and starring Susan FitzGerald and Joan O’HaraCome and Go   Directed by John Crowley and starring Paola Dionisotti, Anna Massey and Siân Phillips7.20pm – 8.10pm
Saturday 31 AugustThe Hub
Tickets £4 per screeningSpecial Offer Buy a ticket for 3 to 6 screenings and save 20% or for 7 to 9 screenings and save 30%!
eif.co.uk/beckettonfilm

The lyrical Lieder performances of acclaimed German tenor Werner Güra take listeners on a spiritual and emotional journey. His glowing voice’s remarkable shadings only add to his dramatic yet subtlevocal.deliveries.
With pianist Christoph Berner, Güra begins his concert with songs of love and longing by Beethoven, from the highly personal song cycle An die ferne Geliebte (‘To the distant beloved’) to expressions of bittersweet desire in Wonne der Wehmut and An die Hoffnung.
After the interval, Güra brings together a selection of Schubert Lieder to convey the life, loves and losses of a Romantic hero, from the youthful Schlummerlied and Ganymed to the moving Willkommenund Abschied.
‘Güra, outstanding in his unfussy, intense delivery, is a formidable, rousing guide.’ The Guardian
This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Friday 16 August 11.00amThe Queen’s Hall
Tickets£29 £26 £21 £17.50 £11 £8
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
eif.co.uk/gura-berner
 
 

Virgin Money Fireworks Concert
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Garry Walker  ConductorMusorgsky  Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Ravel)
Join the city of Edinburgh in a celebration of summer festivals, inspirational music and breathtaking pyrotechnics as the Virgin Money Fireworks Concert brings the Edinburgh International Festival to a resplendent conclusion.
Set against the magnificent backdrop of Edinburgh’s iconic Castle, the evening brings together the stirring playing of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra with a thrilling concert-long fireworks display, specially choreographed to enhance the musical experience.
This year’s centrepiece is Musorgsky’s dazzling orchestral showpiece Pictures at an Exhibition. Its vivid musical depictions of Russian paintings, conveyed in virtuoso playing and barnstorming brass fanfares, are the perfect match for an astonishing display of pyrotechnics.
Visit eif.co.uk/virginmoneyfireworks for up-to-the-minute news, features and advice on how to make the best of your evening at the Virgin Money Fireworks Concert.
Please note that there are special ticket sales arrangements for this event.
Sunday 1 September 9.00pm
TicketsRoss Theatre (seated) £27.50Princes Street Gardens (standing) £12.50, priority entry £17.50
45 minutes approximately
eif.co.uk/virginmoneyfireworks
Sponsored byVirgin Money

Beckett on Film A rare opportunity to experience the 19 films, shorts and features,from many different filmmakers and actors, of the Beckett on Filmproject produced by Michael Colgan and Alan Moloney. Waiting for Godot    Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and starring Stephen Brennan, Barry McGovern, Johnny Murphy, Alan Stanford and Sam McGovern as the boy8.30pm – 10.30pm Saturday 31 AugustThe Hub Tickets £4 per screeningSpecial Offer Buy a ticket for 3 to 6 screenings and save 20% or for 7 to 9 screenings and save 30%! eif.co.uk/beckettonfilm

Virgin Money Fireworks Concert
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Garry Walker  ConductorMusorgsky  Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Ravel)
Join the city of Edinburgh in a celebration of summer festivals, inspirational music and breathtaking pyrotechnics as the Virgin Money Fireworks Concert brings the Edinburgh International Festival to a resplendent conclusion.
Set against the magnificent backdrop of Edinburgh’s iconic Castle, the evening brings together the stirring playing of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra with a thrilling concert-long fireworks display, specially choreographed to enhance the musical experience.
This year’s centrepiece is Musorgsky’s dazzling orchestral showpiece Pictures at an Exhibition. Its vivid musical depictions of Russian paintings, conveyed in virtuoso playing and barnstorming brass fanfares, are the perfect match for an astonishing display of pyrotechnics.
Visit eif.co.uk/virginmoneyfireworks for up-to-the-minute news, features and advice on how to make the best of your evening at the Virgin Money Fireworks Concert.
Please note that there are special ticket sales arrangements for this event.
Sunday 1 September 9.00pm
TicketsRoss Theatre (seated) £27.50Princes Street Gardens (standing) £12.50, priority entry £17.50
45 minutes approximately
eif.co.uk/virginmoneyfireworks
Sponsored byVirgin Money

Unknowable Futures In the face of today’s ongoing technological revolution, author and journalist Ben Hammersley examines how we must consider today what we do not know for tomorrow. Chaired by journalist Robert Dawson Scott. Saturday 10 August 5.00pm The Hub Tickets £6 1 hour approximately eif.co.uk/interfaces Special Offer – Buy a ticket for 4 to 6 events and save 20%– Buy a ticket for 7 to 10 events and save 30%

French soprano Véronique Gens forged her international reputation as an inspirational singer of Baroque music, and she brings the same lucid purity so valued in that repertoire to a recital of Romantic,19th-century songs from her homeland, accompanied by the delicate playing of Susan Manoff.
Gens combines stylish poise with a strong sense of drama in a diverse programme, from Fauré’s mysterious dream of elopement Après un rêve to the unforgettably evocative L’invitation au voyage by Duparc. After rare discoveries by Chausson and early masterpieces by Debussy, she concludes with exotic songs by Hahn inspired by far-off antiquity.
‘every nuance beautifully shaded, every word sumptuously delivered’ The Big Issue
This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Friday 30 August 11.00amThe Queen’s Hall
Tickets£29 £26 £21 £17.50 £11 £8
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
eif.co.uk/gens-manoff
Supported by John-Paul and Joanna Temperley

A video of the 2002 OBIEwinning production of Racine’s Phèdre, set in a mobile modernist landscape of sliding Plexiglass panels, omnipresent monitors, hidden cameras, and badminton…
‘This blend of ironic seriousness, heightened theatricality and multimedia ballet has developed into one of the sharpest of theatrical instruments’ The Village Voice
Monday 12 August 12 noon1 hour 15 minutes
New Media Scotland
Tickets £4
eif.co.uk/woosterarchive

Cellist Peter Gregson’s new work To Dream Again unfolds after a series of interactions between the audience and bespoke data systems. Created especially for this world premiere, these audience interactions mean that each performance develops in an entirely different way in the laboratory venue and subsequently online, where it decays until finally it can no longer be heard. Quite the matter of life and data.
Peter Gregson is equally at home collaborating with some of the most exciting musicians working today (including Gabriel Prokofiev, Daníel Bjarnason and Max Richter) as he is with world-leading technologists, ranging from the Media Lab at MIT, Microsoft Labs and his own Google-funded incubator, The Electric Creative Colab. Commissioned by New Media Scotland, To Dream Again was developed during a six-month residency.
‘pushing the classical performance envelope’ Classical Music
Monday 19 & Tuesday 20, Thursday 22 – Saturday 24 August 9.00pmNew Media Scotland
Tickets £15
1 hour approximately
eif.co.uk/petergregson
Supported by the Alt-w Fund with investment from the Centre for Design Informatics