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More » A look behind the scenes of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, the play based on Haruki Murakami's award-...

Festival 2011 - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

More » Get behind the wheel with the Festival Drivers as they take performers and staff across the City of...

Festival Driver

More » As regular Festival performers since 1965, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus have been on...

Edinburgh Festival Chorus

More » Meet Norman Motion, the man behind the music, and witness the intricate skills of a piano tuner at...

Norman Motion: Piano Man

More » Enter a world of extraordinary acrobatics, gorgeous costumes and brilliant music, as Dr...

Festival 2011 - Peking Opera Explained

More » Giving an overview of Festival 2011, Jonathan Mills, the Festival Director explained how the 2011...

Festival 2011 - East Meets West

More » Enter the dream-like world of Richard Strauss’ epic opera Die Frau ohne Schatten. Stage...

Festival 2011 - Inside Die Frau ohne Schatten

More » Discover the story behind the story with One Thousand and One Nights as director Tim Supple...

Festival 2011 - A Journey into One Thousand and One Nights

More » Experience the drama and beauty of Ea Sola's Drought and Rain (re-creation 2011). The ...

Festival 2011 - Drought and Rain (re-creation 2011)

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More » Deborah Colker and her dancers visited schools in Midlothian as part of the Edinburgh International...

Deborah Colker schools dance workshops

Deborah Colker and her dancers visited schools in Midlothian as part of the Edinburgh International Festival's year long outreach and education programme.

What is Festival backstage?

It is a unique series of short films that take you behind-the-scenes of Festival 2012 created together with Standard Life and Edinburgh Napier University

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