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- This was the 2024 Edinburgh International Festival
- The Philharmonia Virtual Reality Experience at Space @ The Broomhouse
- Week Two at the 2024 Edinburgh International Festival
- Week One at the 2024 Edinburgh International Festival
- Opening Weekend at the 2024 Edinburgh International Festival
- Setting the Scene: the timeless staging of Carmen
- The Opening Event: Where to begin your Festival
- The Warm Up: Rituals That Unite Us
- Get to know: The Bamberger Symphoniker
- Fire In My Mouth: UK Premiere
- The Warm Up: A Sneak Peek
- NHS Festival Fridays: Prescribing World Class Music
- Gig Goers: The Ultimate Guide
- New performances added to the 2024 International Festival programme
- Grupo Corpo: Rhythm and Ritual
- Sink into Symphony: The Beanbag Concert Series is Back
- Carmen is as exciting as ever
- Festival Season for Families is here
- Join our pop-up and win tickets
- 2024 Festival Highlights
- Where to Start
- A Dancerʼs Dream: 25 young dancers experience the International Festival stage
- Announcing our Opening Event in Partnership with The Macallan
- The International Festival Recommends: Eight things to see and do in January
- Q&A with a trainee at Edinburgh International Festival
- Celebrating Nicola Benedetti’s contributions to the City of Edinburgh
- The International Festival Recommends: Eleven things to see and do in December
- First Performances and Theme announced as part of the 2024 Edinburgh International Festival
- The International Festival Recommends: Seven things to see and do in November
- Festival Director Nicola Benedetti to receive the Edinburgh Award 2023
- What is a song cycle?
- The International Festival Recommends: Seven things to see and do in October
- The 2023 International Festival in pictures
- Nicola Benedetti delivers successful first Edinburgh International Festival
- EIFF @ Edinburgh International Festival draws to a close
- A New Musical Landscape: Symphony No 9 in D minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
- A Hymn to Joy: Turangalîla-Symphonie by Olivier Messiaen
- Shadow and Light: A Child of Our Time by Sir Michael Tippett
- A weekend at the Edinburgh International Festival: week four
- A weekend at the 2023 Edinburgh International Festival: week three
- A weekend at the Edinburgh International Festival: week two
- A weekend at the 2023 Edinburgh International Festival: week one
- Love stories at the 2023 International Festival
- Traditional music around the world
- EIFF @ Edinburgh International Festival Reveals 2023 Programme
- What is Life is a Dream all about?
- Announcing free events across Edinburgh at the 2023 Festival
- Fremont to Close EIFF @ Edinburgh International Festival
- Silent Roar to Open EIFF @ Edinburgh International Festival
- What is Trojan Women all about?
- What is The Rite of Spring all about?
- Get to know Kyle Abraham
- Myths and legends in the 2023 International Festival programme
- Highlights of the 2023 International Festival
- The International Festival recommends: eight things to see and do in April
- What is an opera in concert?
- The International Festival recommends: Seven things to do in March 2023
- Announcing our new partnership with BE United to support Black, African and Caribbean creatives
- The International Festival recommends: eight things to see and do this February
- The ‘Edinburgh is a Story’ Walking Tour
- What is The Dream of Gerontius all about?
- What is Saul all about?
- What are the Brandenburg Concertos all about?
- Kalkadungu Yurdu by William Barton
- Six scary Festival scenes for Halloween
- Welcoming our new Festival Director Nicola Benedetti
- Three Black women who made classical music history
- Revealing the full details of our 2022 At Home Programme in partnership with abrdn
- Edinburgh is a Story by Edinburgh Makar Hannah Lavery
- Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
- The 2022 International Festival in pictures
- Scotland embraces the return of Edinburgh International Festival
- What is Beethovenʼs Fifth Symphony all about?
- 75 Hours at the 75th Edinburgh International Festival: week four
- 75 hours at the 75th Edinburgh International Festival: week three
- What is Counting and Cracking all about?
- 75 hours at the 75th Edinburgh International Festival: week two
- Announcing the 2022 At Home programme in partnership with abrdn
- 75 hours at the 75th Edinburgh International Festival: week one
- Eight compelling new works at the 2022 Festival
- New show from Gabriel Byrne joins our 2022 programme
- Welcoming a new leadership team in our 75th anniversary year
- How we celebrated Pride month in 2022
- Celebrating our 75th anniversary with over 35,000 free tickets
- What is Rusalka all about?
- New podcast released for World Refugee Day
- Celebrating LGBTQ+ artists at Leith Theatre
- Around the world in eight concerts
- How well do you know our classical composers?
- The 2022 International Festival reading list
- Welcoming the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra to Edinburgh this August
- Highlights of the 2022 International Festival
- 2022 Classical Music Highlights
- Nicola Benedetti to become our next Festival Director
- Statement on Valery Gergiev
- First shows announced as part of the 2022 Edinburgh International Festival
- Thank you for celebrating the return of live performance to Edinburgh
- The 2021 International Festival in pictures
- Meet Me Halfway encourages walking and cycling this Festival
- My Top Five Festival Highlights: Janice Parker
- New Damon Albarn Show Announced
- Search For Next Festival Director Begins
- Edinburgh International Festival At Home in partnership with abrdn
- Five reasons to see woman.life.song
- My Top Five Festival Highlights: Christine Devaney
- Festival Favours
- My Top Five Festival Highlights: Karine Polwart
- My Top Five Festival Highlights: Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE
- International conductors lead UK orchestras at this year’s International Festival
- 2021 Opening Event cancelled
- My Top Five Festival Highlights: Aidan O’Rourke
- Highlights of the 2021 International Festival
- Keith Skeoch appointed as Chair of the Edinburgh International Festival Board
- Edinburgh International Festival goes outdoors for 2021
- A message from the Festival team
- His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh
- Leith Academy drama studio receives new seating bank
- Discover the extraordinary creative potential of AI with The New Real
- Scottish Ballet’s Coppélia shortlisted for FEDORA Ballet Prize
- Edinburgh International Festival Releases Compilation CD to Bring Music to those Creatively and Socially Isolated at Christmas
- Fly the Flag for Human Rights
- Edinburgh International Festival collaborates with leading STEAM partners for Festival UK 2022
- Hannah Lavery talks about Lament for Sheku Bayoh
- Resilience Stories: Aberdeen Standard Investments
- Thanks to Virgin Money for 10 Fantastic Years of Partnership
- Play On: Stages
- Edinburgh Festival Chorus: Finding Community in Lockdown
- Culture Club Classes: Summer Edition
- The August Festivals in 2020
- John Byrne: The Ghost Light
- Hardship Funds
- Faces of Edinburgh Festivals
- Queen's Hall Series and The Ghost Lights
- Keeping up with Culture over the Coming Months
- A message from our Festival Director
- 2020 programme announcement postponed
- Edinburgh International Festival Opts for Digital Launch in Response to Coronavirus
- A week at Leith Academy
- Be the face of the International Festival’s behind-the-scenes content
- Former International Festival Managing Director Joanna Baker to be Honoured with a CBE
- Introducing the new brand for Leith Academy residency designed by students
- National Theatre of Scotland returns to Edinburgh International Festival with Medea
- Creating the Festival Ambassadors
- You Are Here with Serge Aimé Coulibaly
- Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra to visit 2020 Edinburgh International Festival in celebration of Japan’s Olympic Summer
- Fireworks and Symphonie fantastique: The International Festival Finale
- The 2019 International Festival in videos
- Edinburgh International Festival announces winners of the Sir Ian McKellen Bursary
- The 2019 International Festival comes to an end
- The Herald Young Critics Reviews
- A day in the life of Wallis Giunta
- Edinburgh International Festival Creates New Board for the Future
- Five reasons to see Hard to be Soft: A Belfast Prayer
- Five reasons to see Breaking the Waves
- Five reasons to see HEAR WORD! Naija Woman Talk True
- Get to know... Serge Aimé Coulibaly
- West Side Story wows
- Sun, Seagulls and Supergirl
- A weekend trip to the Festival City
- Get to know... Robert Icke
- Five reasons to see The Crucible
- International companies at the International Festival
- Five reasons to see The Secret River
- James McArdle on tackling an epic
- 1927: Animating Roots
- Get to know... Helen Pickett
- Getting global with Shooglenifty
- Critically acclaimed works in the programme
- Marcel Khalife: The Arabic Bob Dylan
- Heart of Hollywood
- Five reasons to see Peter Gynt
- Full details announced for the Aberdeen Standard Investments Opening Event: LA Phil at Tynecastle
- 1927: A theatre company with a twist
- Winners revealed for the 2019 Virgin Money Fireworks Concert poster competition
- Cast announced for Red Dust Road and Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation
- The 2019 International Festival Reading List
- Full Details of You Are Here Programme Unveiled
- Leith Academy meets Beatbox Academy
- Applications open for Sir Ian McKellen Bursary
- The Greeks
- The search for The Secret River
- Virgin Money Fireworks Concert poster competition 2019
- What is Eugene Onegin all about?
- Something's coming... something good
- Los Angeles Philharmonic at 100
- Approval for Edinburgh's Dunard Centre - a new music and performance venue
- Ballet Black’s Cira Robinson to feature in The Crucible at Edinburgh International Festival
- Celebrating Sir James MacMillan at 60
- Edinburgh International Festival Launches 2019 Programme
- Looking forward to the 2019 launch
- Orchestre de Paris set to visit 2019 Edinburgh International Festival
- National Theatre of Scotland join the 2019 programme with work by Jackie Kay
- Sir Ian McKellen returns to the International Festival
- Francesca Hegyi OBE appointed as Executive Director of Edinburgh International Festival
- Get to know Aidan Oliver, Chorus Director of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus
- Scottish Ballet’s The Crucible announced for 2019
- James McArdle returns to the International Festival in Peter Gynt
- Seven times we got spooked at the International Festival
- The International Festival begins pitch process for creative design for 2019–2022
- The International Festival 2018 in videos
- The 2018 International Festival comes to an end
- 300 young dancers from across Scotland performed in Akram Khan Company's Kadamati at the Palace of Holyroodhouse
- The Young Herald Critics reviews
- Get to know... the Virgin Money Fireworks Concert
- Make it your own - teaching Kadamati to young dancers
- UK opera stars join Scottish Chamber Orchestra for Virgin Money Fireworks Concert
- Behind the dance – learning the moves for Kadamati
- Looking back at the Light on the Shore with Edinburgh Gin Seaside
- A taste of Midsummer
- The meaning behind the movements: programme notes for Five Telegrams
- 48 hours at the International Festival
- 2018 playlists
- Make the most of your first trip to the International Festival
- The International Festival and Sustainability - Not Waiting for Godot
- Scottish Composers in the Programme
- Details announced for Power, Gender and the Arts
- Paying tribute to the centenary of the First World War
- How a techno piper reinvented Scotlandʼs Bothy Culture
- School’s out for summer!
- Full Details Announced for Lau-Land at Edinburgh International Festival
- Cast announced for National Theatre of Scotland’s Midsummer
- Oliver Knussen Composer and Conductor 1952-2018
- The inspiration behind Five Telegrams
- Winners revealed for the 2018 Virgin Money Fireworks Concert poster competition
- Take part in #FiveTelegrams
- World Music Day 2018
- Glasgow's Numbers announce full line up for International Festival Event
- Five reasons to be enchanted by La Cenerentola
- The International Festival Wins Six Awards at the CATS
- Castlebrae Community High School wins Employability & Creativity Across Learning Award at Scottish Education Awards 2018
- Opportunities for young people at the Aberdeen Standard Investments Opening Event: Five Telegrams
- International Festival Managing Director Joanna Baker to step down
- Five reasons to make yourself at HOME
- Virgin Money Fireworks Concert poster competition 2018
- Quiz: How well do you know the 2018 International Festival programme?
- Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason to make the Edinburgh International Festival debut
- Get to know... youth orchestras and ensembles
- Lit out loud – spoken word in the programme
- Folk tales and myths in the programme
- Full Programme for Light on the Shore with Edinburgh Gin Seaside announced
- Shining a light on a new partnership with Edinburgh Gin
- Appointment of the new Chorus Director of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus
- International celebration of dance
- The International Festival 2018 reading list
- What is The Barber of Seville all about?
- Calling young dancers to perform at the International Festival
- First production of the 2019 International Festival announced in Shanghai visit
- Piano Day 2018
- Get to know the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
- Edinburgh International Festival Announce Residency in Leith Academy
- 2018 International Festival Programme Revealed
- Photograph the International Festival
- Five Telegrams part of 14-18 NOW
- Here's to 2018!
- Portrait Exhibition of Castlebrae High School Pupils
- First show of the 2018 International Festival announced
- Interview: 2017 International Festival Photographer
- Edinburgh International Festival Director’s Contract Extended
- Edinburgh International Festival receives 2017 Fair Saturday Award
- Behind the scenes at the 2017 International Festival
- Edinburgh International Festival receives EFFE Award
- This was the 2017 International Festival
- Commemorative plaque unveiled
- Virgin Money Fireworks Concert 2017 in facts and figures
- First Minister visits Castlebrae Community High School
- 14 times the cast of Die Walküre were EXTRA
- 2017 playlists
- 2019 playlists
- Five reasons to see Rain at the International Festival
- 70 years of stories in the International Festival programme
- Five reasons to let Don Giovanni seduce you this August
- Five Conductors Share Their Operatic Favourites
- Get to know musicians joining The Music of The Incredible String Band line-up
- International Festival welcomes The Earl of Wessex as New Patron
- A Flight like no other
- Launch of Storytelling Website to Celebrate 70 Years of the International Festival
- Get to know María Pagés
- Professor Niall Lothian OBE elected as Chairman of the Board
- International Festival Portraits | Joshua Bell
- International Festival Portraits | Anoushka Shankar
- International Festival Portraits | Alan Ayckbourn
- International Festival Portraits | Zinnie Harris
- International Festival Portraits | Martin Creed
- Get to know Bryn Terfel
- International Festival launches cultural leaders Mentor Programme
- The 450th anniversary of Claudio Monteverdi's birth
- International Dance Day 2017
- Get to know Benjamin Clementine
- Artist in residence: Joshua Bell
- Piano Day 2017
- Disabled Access Day 2017
- The International Festival Young Peopleʼs Jury
- Who are the International Festival Young People's Jury?
- 2016 International Festival Welcomes the World to Edinburgh
- Get to know Natalia Osipova
- Get to know Daniil Trifonov
- Get to know James Thierrée
- Ten great reasons to come to the International Festival this August
- Mahler's Last Notes
- International Festival Portraits | Meow Meow
- International Festival Portraits | John Tiffany
- International Festival Portraits | Alan Cumming
- International Festival Portraits | Barry Humphries
- International Festival Portraits | James Yorkston
- International Festival Portraits | Crystal Pite
- International Festival Portraits | Marin Alsop
- Crossing the Border
- Cabaret in the Weimar Republic
- The Art of Listening Goes Down Under...
- Shakespeare at the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival
- A day in the life of... a Creative Learning Officer
- International Festival Portraits | Juliette Binoche
- International Festival Portraits | Nicola Benedetti
- International Festival Portraits | Robert Lepage
- International Festival Portraits | Anne-Sophie Mutter
- International Festival Portraits | Simon McBurney
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