Edinburgh International Festival 2010
13th August to 5th September 2010
The Edinburgh International Festival is the world's largest arts festival with a phenomenal record of success since its inception in 1947 takes place each year in Edinburgh and the dates for the 2008 Edinburgh Festival have officially been announced and are from 8 August to 31August, 2008.
The range of activities in 2006 and 2007 included traditional and modern Opera, from Mozart and Tchaikovsky to the world premiere of The Assassin Tree with music by Stuart Macrae and words by Simon Armitage.
The Edinburgh International Festival 2007 held The British premiere of Balanchine's Don Quixote "Tilting at windmills", with input from Scottish Ballet producing what The Independent described as 'A genuinely exciting evening.' and with some of the international flavour provided by the Nederlands Dans Theater. This year as every Year an exciting programme of innovative works will be produced to cater for all tastes.
In theatre the programme of the Edinburgh International Festival included works by Shakespeare, Chekov and Anthony Neilsson while in Music a full programme included The Opening Concert: Elektra, András Schiff Orchestra of St Luke's , Richard Goode and Marcia Weinfeld, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Schumann's Manfred, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Richard Goode Lecture Recital, Ian Bostridge and Antonio Pappano, Richard Goode, Berliner Philharmoniker concluding with the Bank of Scotland Firework Concert.
The 2010 programme has now been released. Further information is available from the official Edinburgh Festival website.
But don't forget that Edinburgh Festival Fringe - the world's largest arts festival - runs in parallel and the Fringe dates for 2008 are 3-25 August
See also: Edinburgh Festival Fringe
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