Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto is one of the world's leading photographers. This exhibition presents works from two of his most visually poetic series, Lightning Fields and Photogenic Drawings.
Sir Roger Norrington is at the helm of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra performing Schumann's exotic and beguiling work to open the 2011 Festival.
Scandinavian baritone Bo Skovhus is one of the leading Lieder baritones of his generation. Accompanied by pianist Stefan Vladar, this all-Mahler programme includes Skovhus' wonderful settings of poems by Friedrich Rückert.
Professor Jonathan Spence explores the relationship between China and
the west against the backdrop of China's continued growth and increasing
power on the world stage.
Danish baritone Bo Skovhus talks about the various roles he has
played and the music of which he is such an acclaimed interpreter.
Shakespeare's The Tempest is transported to 5th-century Korea in this dramatic re-imagining and adaptation from the Mokwha Repertory Company.
Led by conductor Ilan Volkov, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra present a trio of works by one of Britain's finest living composers, Jonathan Harvey.
The celebrated actor from Taipei, Wu Hsing-kuo adapts themes and relationships from Shakespeare's monumental tragedy of power and deception, King Lear, in this one man tour de force.
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