X-Nico

unusual facts about Edinburgh International Festival


Edinburgh International Festival

The first Festival concentrated mainly on classical music, a highlight being concerts given by the Vienna Philharmonic, reunited with their erstwhile conductor Bruno Walter who had left Europe after the Nazi occupation of his homeland.


Garfield Kennedy

Festival Times was the first publication to give dedicated and extensive coverage of the Edinburgh Festival (Fringe, International Festival and Film Festival).

Peter Zadek

This production won the Critics' Prize of the Edinburgh International Festival.

Tadashi Endo

In 2009, he choreographed Georg Friedrich Händel's opera Admeto, directed by Doris Dörrie and performed at the Edinburgh International Festival.


see also

Carol Hogel

She has been responsible for lavish patronage of the Edinburgh International Festival, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Opera and the National Galleries of Scotland.

Michael Wilcox

For Opera North, he worked with Jeremy Sams on a new libretto for Chabrier's Le roi malgré lui that was first staged at the Edinburgh International Festival as "The Reluctant King" in 1995.