Final chance to get your tickets 🔜

The Berliner Philharmoniker arrive this weekend - we cannot wait. Didn't manage to get tickets? Don't miss Mere Mortals, the hot-dance ticket in town from Azure and Floating Points.

Before then there's plenty to get involved in. We're into our final week of world-class performances. 

Relive the highlights ⬇️

The Epic Final Week

Mere Mortals
Fri 28 – Sun 30 Aug

Open Pandora’s Box and come face to face with the perils of our tech-obsessed age. San Francisco Ballet takes on eternal philosophical questions about the quest for knowledge through the contemporary lens of artificial intelligence.

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Verdi’s A Masked Ball
Wed 26 – Sun 30 Aug

Love and deception swirl at the center of Giuseppe Verdi’s stunning opera A Masked Ball (Un ballo in maschera) from Zurich Opera House. Riccardo, the Governor of Boston, is in love with his best friend’s wife. Caught between love and loyalty, Riccardo risks everything – his political standing and even his life.

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Clown Show
Thu 27 – Sun 30 Aug

Roll up, roll up for theatre-maker Geoff Sobelle’s contemporary portrait of America as a falling-apart circus.

Sobelle is joined by an army of clowns holding it together as best they can, performing the original score on questionable instruments. Together, they invite you into a crumbling empire to witness the greatest show on earth before it disappears completely.

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The Reviews Are In

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "You could barely imagine a more fiercely committed advocate for the work"
– The Scotsman on Voices of Canada: Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “Its approach is startlingly original.”
– The Edinburgh Reporter on HANG TIME

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “The experience becomes increasingly ceremonial, moving between moments of seduction, joy, grief, brutality and contemplation.“
– The QR on Ihsane

★ ★ ★ ★ “Koo makes a charming host” 
– The Herald on Haribo Kimchi

★ ★ ★ ★  “Hang Time is a dark and chilling testament.”
– The Guardian on HANG TIME

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Only one week left of the 2026 Edinburgh International Festival. 

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