Throughout Festival 2012, Edinburgh’s Arthur’s Seat is the focus for a remarkable fusion of innovative public art and sporting endeavour.
The Opening Concert presents one of the grandest choral pieces ever written: Delius’s A Mass of Life.
Military commander Macbeth unleashes a nightmare of carnage and destruction. A war on terror that is a war of terror.
Donald Runnicles and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform two transcendental evocations of nature and landscape - Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony and Strauss's Alpine Symphony.
Start your day with an unforgettable musical experience. Immerse yourself in a world of music and a profusion of styles to excite and delight every taste.
Major international star and English baritone Sir Thomas Allen reflects upon his career as a singer with music writer and BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom Service.
Deborah Colker Dance Company transports Aleksandr Pushkin’s famous tale of young love, passion, obsession and rejection from 19th-century Russia to contemporary, sultry Brazil.
Janáček’s penultimate opera is at once a mystery thriller and a meditation on desire and eternal life, featuring some of the composer’s most radiant, life-affirming music.
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