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EIF-2012-Cover-170212.indd 3 21/02/2012 16:29 EIF-2012-Cover-170212.indd 4 21/02/2012 16:30 Contents Edinburgh 02 Welcome to the Festival 04 Festival 2012 Supporters Make Friends International Those who help to make it happen 06 Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston with the World’s Outstanding theatre from Poland, Festival France and Switzerland Favourite Festival 10 Theatre Innovative and compelling drama from some Membership starts from just £50. 9 August – 2 September 2012 more of the world’s greatest directors Show your support by joining today. 18 Dance Contemporary and classical dance from around the world
Play your part in the Festival and help to bring the very best in opera, 30 NVA’s Speed of Light theatre, classical music and dance to Edinburgh every August. See the Unique fusion of sport and art greatest performers, orchestras and companies from around the world and ensure you never miss out on those must-see, sell-out shows. 32 Opera Membership brings a range of exciting privileges including From across Britain and beyond
– 10 days’ priority booking ahead of tickets 39 The Opening Concert going on sale to the general public. Frederick Delius’s A Mass of Life – exclusive access to a year-round programme of special events 40 Music including behind the scenes tours and talks with artists. World class conductors, orchestras and soloists
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– ‘money can’t buy’ experiences 32 67 Masterclasses and more – invites to exclusive VIP parties Creative insights and study events – a year-round programme of events and 68 Fringe Prize and discounts with partner organisations 18 Edinburgh University Events – 50% ticket discounts on a range of Festival performances 69 A Festival for Everyone For more information visit eif.co.uk/INsider How to access the Festival and get closer online
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World Shakespeare Festival
Welcome to The World Shakespeare Festival is a celebration of Shakespeare as As broadcast partner of the Festival BBC Radio 3 brings the Festival to the world’s playwright. Produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company those who would not otherwise be able to take part. Through live and in an unprecedented collaboration with leading UK and international pre-recorded broadcasts many Edinburgh International Festival concerts arts organisations, it is a cornerstone of the London 2012 Festival, can be enjoyed throughout the whole nation thanks to this visionary the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad. partnership. Full details at bbc.co.uk/radio3.
The Edinburgh International Festival is a proud partner of the World Festival 2012 Shakespeare Festival, presenting three exciting and contrasting Shakespeare productions: TR Warszawa’s vast multimedia 2008: Macbeth; a new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by acclaimed Russian director Dmitry Krymov; and an adaptation of An old saying in showbiz suggests that there are and Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, the immensely The Rape of Lucrece featuring the hugely charismatic actor and singer no great actors, only great roles. energetic actors of Dmitry Krymov’s theatre academy Camille O’Sullivan. Find out more at worldshakespearefestival.org.uk. from Moscow or the many talented young laureates Scotland is a thriving hub for arts and cultural activities and the Year The role that the Edinburgh International Festival has appearing at The Queen’s Hall will offer Festival of Creative Scotland provides the perfect showcase for this diverse chosen to play in 2012 is an enhancement of the afi cionados a fi rst optimistic glimpse of the future mix of creativity and energy. An exciting and imaginative programme part we have been playing ever since our inception of the performing arts from across the globe. The Cultural Olympiad and of special events will take place throughout the year, and throughout in 1947: as catalyst for inspiring ideas and creativity London 2012 Festival Scotland, covering everything from music to drama and from dance from around the world. The scale of our ambitions in 2012 will be revealed to art, designed to appeal to both visitors and locals. by a visit to the Lowland Hall at the Royal Highland As the UK prepares to host a Summer Olympic Centre where three of Europe’s greatest theatre The London 2012 Cultural Olympiad is the largest cultural celebration in For further inspiration visit visitscotland.com/creative. Games, the Festival is as eager as ever to offer its directors – Grzegorz Jarzyna, Christoph Marthaler the history of the modern Olympic and Paralympic movements. Spread special contribution to artists and audiences by and Ariane Mnouchkine – will in their unique ways over four years, it is designed to give everyone in the UK a chance to hosting one of the greatest and most diverse annual transform this vast space into a place of reverie be part of London 2012 and inspire creativity across all forms of culture, Edinburgh International Culture Summit celebrations of culture held anywhere in the world. and make-believe. especially among young people. And when a new generation of sportsmen and sportswomen are competing for glory in London, All who are involved in the Edinburgh International The culmination of the Cultural Olympiad is the London 2012 Festival, Culture Ministers from around the world will gather in the world’s Festival we believe that our programme of dance, theatre, Festival in 2012 are excited to be welcoming the bringing leading artists from all over the world together from 21 June City in August to debate the power and profi le of culture in forging and music and opera will introduce audiences to the world once again to a city that is proudly the world’s 2012 in this UK-wide festival – a chance for everyone to celebrate fostering international relationships. thrilling virtuosity of a new generation of talented festival city. I hope you will be among us in August London 2012 through dance, music, theatre, the visual arts, fi lm and performers. We are confi dent that the fl air and to experience the magic. digital innovation. The fi rst ever Edinburgh International Culture Summit will be hosted in dedication of the youthful artists of Juilliard Dance the magnifi cent Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh on 13 and from New York’s famous Juilliard School, the young Jonathan Mills Principal funders of the Cultural Olympiad and London 2012 Festival 14 August, after the Closing Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games musicians of the European Union Youth Orchestra Festival Director are Arts Council England, Legacy Trust UK and the Olympic Lottery in London and in the midst of the unrivalled explosion of cultural energy Distributor. The British Council will support the international development at Edinburgh’s Festivals. of London 2012 Cultural Olympiad projects. BP and BT are Premier Partners of the Cultural Olympiad and the London 2012 Festival. The Summit is a collaboration between the Scottish Government, Panasonic are the presenting partner of Film Nation: Shorts. the UK Government, the British Council and the Edinburgh International Festival. It brings together Culture Ministers with prominent artists, To sign up to receive information about the London 2012 Festival visit thinkers and others involved in developing and implementing london2012.com/festival. cultural policy.
It is planned to webcast the plenary sessions of the Summit.
Visit eics2012.com for details.
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Corporate Friends Consulate General of the Benefactors and Patrons Mr and Mrs R H Mitchell Republic of Poland Thank you to our Festival 2012 supporters Bank of Scotland Thank you to the following individuals Allan Myers AO QC Consulate General of Switzerland, and Maria Myers AO The Caledonian Hilton for their support of Festival 2012. Edinburgh Patricia and Alex Neish HEINEKEN Culture Ireland Benefactor Dr Paul Nisselle AM Macdonald Holyrood Hotel Embassy of Finland, London Mr and Mrs James Anderson Nick and Julie Parker The core investment which the Edinburgh International Festival Partners Maclay Murray & Spens LLP Embassy of Switzerland, London Ewan and Christine Brown Lady Potter Festival receives from the City of Edinburgh Council and o2 Embassy of the United States of Roxane Clayton Donald and Brenda Rennie Planet Flowers Creative Scotland plays a critical role in ensuring our Production Sponsor Production Sponsor America, London Claire Enders Sir Duncan Rice and Lady Rice Prestige Scotland stability and success. Government of South Australia Joscelyn Fox Mr Andrew and Mrs The Royal Bank of Scotland Government of Victoria, Australia Gavin and Kate Gemmell Carolyn Richmond Shell U.K. Limited Crucial support from other public sector bodies, charitable Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Frank Hitchman Ross Roberts funds, the corporate sector, international partners and Standard Life New Delhi Production Sponsor Donald and Louise MacDonald Fiona and Ian Russell agencies, trusts and foundations and our individual Institut français David McLellan Richard Simon benefactors, patrons and friends is also vitally important Principal Donors The Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh Opening Concert Partner Charles Smith American Friends of the Edinburgh Jean and Roger Miller in enabling us to maintain the Festival’s scale and quality. The Japan Foundation International Festival Michael Shipley and Philip Rudge Andrew and Becky Swanston We are grateful to all these organisations and individuals, The Ministry of Culture and National The Director’s Circle Keith and Andrea Skeoch Susie Thomson who make the Festival possible. Heritage of Romania Edinburgh International Jim and Isobel Stretton Claire and Mark Urquhart The Nehru Centre, London Festival Benefactors John-Paul and Joanna Temperley Robin and Sheila Wight Representation of the Government Edinburgh International Festival Ruth Woodburn Grants Hotel Partner Document Production Supporter of Flanders in the UK Mr Hedley G Wright Endowment Fund Neil and Philippa Woodcock Solutions Partner The Romanian Cultural Institute Zachs-Adam Family Edinburgh International Festival Royal Norwegian Consulate General, Friends and Patrons And others who prefer to Edinburgh Platinum Reserve remain anonymous Geoff and Mary Ball Corporate Associates Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain – SCFB Richard Burns Alba Water United States Consulate General, Aileen and Stephen Nesbitt Cullen Property Production Sponsor Official Retail Partner Edinburgh Project Grants Dimensions (Scotland) Ltd Platinum Supporter The Glasshouse Trusts and Foundations J Attias Hotel du Vin, Edinburgh Supported through the Aga Khan Foundation Katie Bradford Scottish Government’s Johnston Press plc The Bacher Trust The Rt Hon Lord Clarke Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund Justerini & Brooks The Binks Trust Lord and Lady Coulsfield Lufthansa Internet Services Provider Hotel Partner The John S Cohen Foundation Sue and Andy Doig Omni Centre Edinburgh Cruden Foundation Limited Jo and Alison Elliot The Rutland Hotel The Peter Diamand Trust Mr and Mrs Ted W Frison The Skinny The Evelyn Drysdale Charitable Trust Raymond and Anita Green Springbank Distillers Ltd Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust David and Judith Halkerston STRATHMORE SPRING WATER The Hamada Edinburgh Kenneth Harrold Telecoms Partner Production Sponsor Production Sponsor Festival Foundation Shields and Carol Henderson International Partners The Inches Carr Trust André and Rosalie Hoffmann and Agencies Eda, Lady Jardine Charitable Trust J Douglas Home Adam Mickiewicz Institute The Morton Charitable Trust Peter Horvath and Barnett Serchuk Australian High Commission, London The Negaunee Foundation Alan M Johnston Austrian Cultural Forum London Principal Supporters Risk Charitable Fund Fred and Ann Johnston Consulate General of the Federal The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Republic of Germany, Edinburgh Norman and Christine Lessels Ian Smith of Stornoway Legacy Niall and Carol Lothian Dunard Fund Sponsor Festival backstage University Partner Fireworks Concert Partner Consulate General of Ireland to Scotland The Stevenston Charitable Trust Alan Macfarlane Harold Mitchell Esq, AC Consulate General of Japan, The Sym Charitable Trust Chris and Gill Masters Edinburgh Duncan and Una McGhie Edinburgh Festivals Partner David Milne and Liz Sharpe Léan Scully EIF Fund Scottish Enterprise
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‘‘I am in blood Stepp’d in so far that, Royal should I wade no more, 2008 : Returning were as tedious as go o’er” Highland Macbeth Act lll Scene lV Macbeth AFTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TRANSLATED BY STANISŁAW BARAN´ CZAK Centre DIRECTED AND ADAPTED BY GRZEGORZ JARZYNA
TR Warszawa The Lowland Hall at the Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, is transformed into a theatre space hosting three vastly different shows impossible to present in conventional theatres. An enormous three-storey construction Performed in Polish with English supertitles with multimedia screens is the set for 2008: Macbeth; a special studio space is needed to allow the audience to be up close and personal with Stephanie Nelson and the characters in Meine faire Dame; while Les Naufragés du Fol Espoir Agnieszka Zawadowska Set and costume designers (Aurores) was originally created for the Cartoucherie, Théâtre du Soleil’s Abel Korzeniowski and Jacek Grudzien´ Music home in a huge converted munitions factory on the outskirts of Paris. Jacqueline Sobiszewski Lighting designer Cast includes Cezary Kosin´ ski and Danuta Stenka Three of Europe’s greatest theatre directors – Grzegorz Jarzyna, Christoph Marthaler and Ariane Mnouchkine each transform, in their nna Grzelewska unique ways, this vast open space into places of reverie and Military commander Macbeth unleashes a nightmare of carnage make-believe. Photo A and destruction. A war on terror that is a war of terror.
The Lowland Hall can be reached by bus from Edinburgh city centre, Set in a contemporary and brutal Middle Eastern conflict, 2008: followed by a 10-minute walk, or by car. There will be a food and bar Macbeth is unflinching in its depiction of the machine of violence service so why not come in time for a drink and a snack or to see that, once set in motion, works faster and ever more efficiently. two shows in a day? Full directions can be found on page 72. If killing in a war is justified, so is killing in the privacy of one’s home. If you can kill men, why not also women and children? This very special project for 2012 has been supported by the City of Edinburgh Council, Creative Scotland and EventScotland. With spectacular pyrotechnics, immersive video effects and an extraordinary, layered soundscape that plays tricks on the ear, Shakespeare’s web of politics, ambition and the supernatural is transformed into a contemporary, and highly physical, theatrical film. Acclaimed director Grzegorz Jarzyna’s searing production of 4.48 Psychosis enthralled Festival audiences in 2008.
Saturday 11 – Monday 13 August, Thursday 16 – Saturday 18 August 7.30pm Wednesday 15 August 2.00pm Lowland Hall, Royal Highland Centre
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‘for a full two hours we ‘The hours fly by like a skiff laughed to ourselves in the Roaring Forties, until we cried’ carried along on a gale Frankfurter Allgemeine of pure theatrical genius… Sonntagszeitung one hell of a voyage’ The Guardian aurent L Photo Judith Schlosser Photo Michèle
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Meine faire Performed in English and German with English supertitles L es Performed in English and French with English supertitles
Christoph Marthaler Director A play collectively devised by Théâtre du Soleil Anna Viebrock Staging Half-written by Hélène Cixous loosely based on a mysterious, Dame – ein Sarah Schittek Costume designer N aufragés posthumous novel by Jules Verne HeidVoegelinLights Lighting designer Malte Ubenauf / Julie Paucker Dramaturgy Ariane Mnouchkine Director Sprachlabor du Fol Espoir Jean-Jacques Lemêtre Music
Returning from a conference on southern English accents, Hungarian My Fair Lady – linguist Professor Karpathy finds an enormous bouquet of flowers A gold rush, a group of genocidal Indian hunters foiled by commando waiting for him. Aghast, he finds a note scribbled in blood-red ink with ( Aurores) nuns, a runaway revolutionary archduke and Darwin and Queen Victoria a very sinister message in the form of a threatening riddle. Who could playing imperial monopoly… D.W. Griffith meets Cecil B. DeMille – a language laboratory have sent it? Is his secret cover blown? He only has until midnight to and all the time, the lights are going down over Europe. solve the mystery or face the consequences… The Castaways of the In a dance hall in the spring before the First World War, a socialist Delightfully witty and (very) loosely based on My Fair Lady, Meine faire visionary is shooting a silent film adapted from a Jules Verne adventure, Dame is set in a language laboratory where its characters attempt to Fol Espoir (Sunrises) using cooks and waiters as his cast. Long before the ship the Fol Espoir learn English from a very eccentric professor – with a secret to hide. runs aground on Cape Horn, high idealism and base motives are vying for the souls of all on board. Director Christoph Marthaler, one of Europe’s most acclaimed and influential directors whose work has rarely been seen in the UK, Ariane Mnouchkine’s work has rarely been seen in the UK because of Tuesday 14, Wednesday 15 skillfully blends music by Weber, Wagner, Bryan Adams and Ravel its sheer scale and complexity. Les Naufragés du Fol Espoir (Aurores) & Sunday 19 August 7.30pm into a subversive, profound and very funny examination of language Thursday 23 – Saturday 25, transforms the Lowland Hall into a spectacular world of the imagination Friday 17 & Saturday 18 August and linguistic confusion. Monday 27 & Tuesday 28 August and fantasy. 2.00pm 6.00pm Supported by Lowland Hall, Royal Highland Centre Lowland Hall, Royal Highland Centre Ewan and Christine Brown Tickets Tickets £30 £25 With additional support from £35 £30 Supported by 2 hours approximately 4 hours 10 minutes approximately
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‘Deprived of all familial ties, the heroine of ‘quite simply outstanding my play lives in solitude, totally speechless, ... I got an almost delirious in a hospital. All she aspires for is revenge joy from hearing, and on the one who is the cause of this, seeing, an hour long her mother who abandoned her.’ distillation of Beckett’s Tadashi Suzuki novel’ The Guardian nthony Woods Photo A
Suzuki Company of Toga Gate Theatre Dublin Waiting Performed in Japanese and Korean with English supertitles Watt Performed in English Tadashi Suzuki Director and designer Cast Barry McGovern Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Euripides Text for Orestes: Midori Takada Composer and musician BY SAMUEL BECKETT Tom Creed Director Orie Horiuchi Costume designer TEXTS FROM THE NOVEL Joan O’Clery Costume designer Takako Tomura Painter SELECTED BY BARRY MCGOVERN James McConnell Lighting designer Denis Clohessy Sound designer Electra Barry McGovern after Samuel Beckett Music
Electra’s father is murdered by her mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, leaving Electra hysterical with grief – and with an obsessional desire for revenge, as she is made a prisoner in her mother’s house. Watt is the extraordinary story of an itinerant character who walks one Her only hope is that her exiled brother Orestes will return and make day from a train station to the home of a Mr Knott whom he will serve. her dark fantasy of murdering her mother come true. The bizarre adventures of Watt and his struggle to make sense of the world around him are told with verbal elegance, immense pathos and In Suzuki’s staging of the Greek myth, the characters’ interior world is fierce humour. deepened by setting the tragedy in a psychiatric hospital, one in which all of humanity is irredeemably trapped. ‘McGovern reminded us that Beckett was, among many other things, One of the most enduringly influential directors and theatre makers one of the great Irish humorists... explosively funny’ alive, Tadashi Suzuki is also renowned for his writings and the Suzuki Saturday 11 – Tuesday 14 The Guardian Acting Method. Here he combines Euripides’s terrifying perception August 8.00pm of human frailty with the operatic force of Hofmannsthal, Richard Strauss’s librettist. Royal Lyceum Theatre ‘full of comic suprises... and oddly touching as well’ Saturday 11 – Monday 13 San Francisco Chronicle August 8.00pm Tickets £30 £24 £20 £16 £10 King’s Theatre, Edinburgh 1 hour approximately Tickets £30 £24 £16 £12 eif.co.uk/watt 1 hour approximately Tuesday 14 August Supported by
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‘I may never see a Friday 17 – Monday 20 August 8.00pm grander more theatrical Sunday 19 August 2.30pm event in my life’ King’s Theatre, Edinburgh The Observer on Faust, Gulliver’s Tickets Festival 2009 £30 £24 £16 £12 2 hours approximately Travels eif.co.uk/gulliver AFTER JONATHAN SWIFT
‘P urca˘ rete’s mighty show Radu Stanca National Theatre delivers a visual and of Sibiu, Romania aural experience so jaw droppingly bold that it Performed in Romanian with English supertitles makes most attempts Silviu Purca˘ rete Director Dragos¸ Buhagiar Set designer at immersive theatre Shaun Davey Music seem like a paddle in the shallows’ After the Festival triumph of Faust in 2009 director Silviu Purca˘ rete The Scotsman on Faust, returns with the Radu Stanca National Theatre of Sibiu, Romania and Festival 2009 the world premiere of his version of Gulliver’s Travels.
Irish writer Jonathan Swift’s savage political satire is seen through the eyes of visionary theatre maker Purca˘ rete with an original score by Irish composer Shaun Davey. Driven by Davey's musical journey, Purca˘ rete’s production gathers cultural and social aspects of contemporary society and explores themes of voyage, dream, exile, immigration, emigration, solitude and togetherness.
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‘Dmitry Krymov is a ‘A cross between Patti revolutionary… every Smith, Sally Bowles and moment is unexpected’ PJ Harvey… a major star’ The Moscow Journal The Scotsman Photo RSC/Ellie Kurttz
Chekhov International Royal Shakespeare Company Theatre Festival A Midsummer The Rape Performed in English
Dmitry Krymov’s Laboratory Performed by Camille O’Sullivan, Night’s Dream School of Dramatic Art Theatre Production of Lucrece accompanied by Feargal Murray on piano Performed in Russian with English supertitles Feargal Murray and Camille O’Sullivan Music WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Elizabeth Freestone Director Dmitry Krymov Director Lily Arnold Designer ( ) Vera Martynova Designer ADAPTED BY ELIZABETH FREESTONE, As You Like It Vince Herbert Lighting designer FEARGAL MURRAY AND CAMILLE O’SULLIVAN
AFTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shakespeare’s magical, shape-shifting play. Shakespeare's tragic poem The Rape of Lucrece, a terrible tale of lust, rape and politics, is both beautiful and violent. From political chronicle A joyous combination of incongruous things: dumbstruck actors, to sexual thriller, the poem’s exquisite tragedy is fully revealed in an suppressed emotions running riot, masterly solecism, divine blundering hypnotic evening of song and storytelling. and, fi nally, craftsmen transformed into poets... From Russia comes the world premiere of Dmitry Krymov’s interpretation of A Midsummer In this compelling and provocative performance by the internationally Night’s Dream. acclaimed singer Camille O’Sullivan, with original music played live by Feargal Murray, Camille inhabits the souls of both Tarquin and Lucrece, Dmitry Krymov is a director, artist and designer whose visually stunning narrating the fate of each. productions have established him as one of the most original directorial voices of his generation. Expect his take on Shakespeare’s most Wednesday 22 – Sunday 26 August 9.00pm magical of comedies to be unlike any Dream you have seen before. ‘when she sings it's as though her breath is soaked in paraffi n; Friday 24 & Saturday Royal Lyceum Theatre one spark and the whole room would ignite’ The Daily Telegraph 25 August 7.30pm Sponsored by Tickets Sunday 26 August 2.30pm £30 £24 £20 £16 £10 King’s Theatre, Edinburgh 1 hour 20 minutes approximately Tickets eif.co.uk/rapeofl ucrece £30 £24 £16 £12 Supported by Saturday 25 August 2 hours 30 minutes approximately
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‘A major international force’ Wonderland The Herald
CREATED BY VANISHING POINT
Vanishing Point Marcelo Montecino Photo Marcelo Performed in English
Matthew Lenton Director Kai Fischer Set, lighting and projection designer Mark Melville Composer and sound designer Villa+Discurso
In a darkly subversive take on the themes of Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll’s Teatro Playa classic tale, Wonderland begins with the mystery of a young woman leaving home and embarking on a dangerous journey. Performed in Spanish with English supertitles
‘In another moment down went Alice, never once considering how in the world Guillermo Calderón Writer and director she was to get out again.’
Wonderland examines the attraction of fame and stardom, the desire for something more, the allure of the erotic and the invasion of pornography into modern popular 1970s Chile – the main torture and extermination centre of General culture. Dreamlike, edgy and intensely physical, it is a mystery about a door that – Pinochet’s regime is the notorious Villa Grimaldi. 30 years later, three once opened – is almost impossible to close, a story about curiosity, temptation women argue about how to remodel the same blood-soaked building and power. complex and how modern Chile should respond to this awful and unwanted legacy, in Guillermo Calderón’s poignant and moving play, Villa. That door leads to a dark place, A dark and exciting place Discurso recreates the last hours in office of Michelle Bachelet, President But once you open it of Chile from 2006 until 2010, with an imaginary farewell speech. Once you enter that place You can’t come back Chilean playwright and director Guillermo Calderón explores the heart Things will not be the same any more. of his nation, with language of intensity and passion, in a double bill of searing contemporary dramas exposing both a terrible heritage and the great humanity it inspired. Please note this performance contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children. Discurso was developed at the International Residency of the Royal Court Theatre, London. A co-production between Vanishing Point, Napoli Teatro Festival, Italy, and Tramway, in association with Eden Court.
Wednesday 29 August – Monday 20 – Tuesday 21 August Saturday 1 September 7.30pm 7.30pm Royal Lyceum Theatre The Hub
Tickets en Wan Tickets £30 £24 £20 £16 £10 Supported through the £25 Scottish Government’s 2 hours approximately 2 hours 15 minutes approximately Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund Supported by eif.co.uk/wonderland eif.co.uk/villadiscurso
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‘when you think you’ve Young, wealthy and cosmopolitan, Eugene Onegin has seen and done Saturday 11 – Tuesday it all. Bored by life in St Petersburg, he moves to the country in the 14 August 7.30pm seen every move the hope of finding inspiration. There he meets the innocent and beautiful The Edinburgh Playhouse Tatyana who instantly falls in love with him, only to be coldly rejected. dancers have in them, Years later, now back in St Petersburg, Onegin is enchanted by Tickets they surprise you’ a glamorous high-society lady, Tatyana. The tables are turned, £30 £27 £22 £17 £12 £10 Tatyana and Onegin begs for her affections. Will love prevail after all? The Washington Post 1 hour 35 minutes approximately Straight from the heart of Rio de Janeiro, Deborah Colker Dance eif.co.uk/tatyana European Premiere Company transports Aleksandr Pushkin’s famous tale of young love, ‘a Brazilian revolution’ passion, obsession and rejection from 19th-century Russia to Sunday 12 August contemporary, sultry Brazil. With typically explosive energy and The Sunday Times choreography packed full of Brazilian colour and flair, Deborah Colker 6.15pm 7.15pm Dance Company’s seamless mixture of contemporary and classical Deborah Colker Dance Company dance has made it one of the most sought-after and exciting companies in the world. Deborah Colker Choreographer and director João Elias Executive director With an eclectic soundtrack featuring music by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky Gringo Cardia Art director and set designer and Terry Riley, this large-scale contemporary ballet combines Sponsored by Jorginho de Carvalho Lighting designer compelling storytelling with a wonderfully inventive set to poignantly Berna Ceppas Music director capture the intense emotional rollercoaster of this tale – from joyous Fabia Bercsek Costume designer elation to bitter disappointment and betrayal.
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Angelin Preljocaj Choreographer Ballet Karlheinz Stockhausen Music Holger Förterer Scenography Patrick Riou Lighting Preljocaj Sylvie Meyniel Costume Designers
And then, one thousand years of peace peace of years thousand one then, And Inspired by the wild, techno-organic rhythms of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Helikopter Quartet, a score And then, one thousand composed for the vast whirring sound of four sets of helicopter propellers and four stringed instruments, years of peace Angelin Preljocaj creates a scintillating dance that sets immense physical challenges. Displaying incredible virtuosity, six dancers intertwine and rotate, echoing the blades of the helicopter in ever more complex forms and shapes. Angelin Preljocaj Choreographer Laurent Garnier Music (except Les anges by Benjamin Rippert and ‘Moonlight’ Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven) Subodh Gupta Set designer Eldorado Igor Chapurin Costume designer Cécile Giovansili Lighting designer (Sonntags Abschied)
Angelin Preljocaj Choreographer Karlheinz Stockhausen Music And then, one thousand years of peace exists in a post-apocalyptic Nicole Tran Ba Vang Set and costume designer world, a world where apocalypse means ‘lifting the veil’, revealing what Cécile Giovansili and lies in the darkest depths of our being. Angelin Preljocaj Lighting designers
Ballet Preljocaj draw you into an all-consuming exploration of human ‘This displays what rituals, beliefs and relationships. Travelling from an intense, dramatic and modern dancing should primordial opening through to a serene, contemplative finale, renowned Eldorado (Sonntags Abschied) is another French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj throws you into the beating always be, a mixture superb synergy between music and movement heart of our existence. as choreographed by Preljocaj to music by of extreme demands, Stockhausen. Trapped in a distinctive sound-world, Initially created in collaboration with the Bolshoi Theatre, the work fuses pure aesthetics and the dancers respond to the music in an almost two distinct styles of movement – the fast, driving power of Preljocaj's visceral way, compelled to move, as if against their contemporary work with the grand classical ballet of the Bolshoi. Set to flawless performance.’ will, by the cascading waves of sound, and only a pulsating soundtrack by techno music legend Laurent Garnier, allowed to rest when the music ends. mixed with samples from Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata, And then, Le Figaro one thousand years of peace combines intricate and edgy action with slow, graceful movement in an ever-evolving dance that reveals our innermost hopes, desires and fears. ‘Breathtaking’ Luxemburger Wort
Friday 17 August – Supported by JC Carbonne Carbonne JC Sunday 19 August 7.30pm The Bacher Trust Photo Wednesday 22 August 7.30pm The Edinburgh Playhouse The Edinburgh Playhouse
Tickets Tickets £30 £27 £22 £17 £12 £10 £30 £27 £22 £17 £12 £10 1 hour 45 minutes approximately 1 hour 40 minutes approximately
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‘mesmerising... ‘A refined and captivating... simply plain classy company’ marvellous dancing’’ Dance Europe The Times of India Tony Lewis Photo Tony Photo Harkirsn Singh Bhasin, NCPA
Uncharted Seas (extract) Breathe European Premiere Aditi Aditi Mangaldas Concept, choreography, costume and stage Leigh Shubha Mudgal and Aneesh Pradhan Vocal composition Leigh Warren Artistic director Sander Loonen Light designer Frances Rings Choreographer Mangaldas Warren+ William Barton Composer and musician India Flint Costume designer Nic Mollison Lighting designer Uncharted Seas takes you to the heart of classical Kathak. Dancers Dance weave in and out of the shadows with grace, poise and a stunning sense Dancers of rhythm. The search for the intangible, for God, truth, beauty, love and freedom, is the essence of Uncharted Seas. Dressed in traditional Dancers writhe, intertwine and pulse with natural, spellbinding rhythm costumes, the sounds of the ghunghroo (ankle bells) meld with the live as though each gesture were merely an extension of their own breath. Company music, creating a distinct percussive beat that adds a unique flavour to Renowned for defying convention and enticing Set to the intensely haunting indigenous sounds of the didgeridoo, every performance. audiences with sublime marriages of movement and sound, Leigh Warren + Dancers presents a unique performed live by legendary player William Barton, Breathe is rooted THE DRISHTIKON DANCE FOUNDATION and inspiring double bill of dance, the first time these in the ancient and modern traditions of the company’s native Australia. two pieces have been performed together.
Dancer and choreographer Aditi Mangaldas's Timeless (extract) company presents a powerful and beautiful double bill. Impulse Kathak loosely translates as ‘the art of storytelling’ and Aditi Mangaldas Concept and choreography features hypnotically intricate footwork, high energy Shubha Mudgal and Aneesh Pradhan Music composition Leigh Warren Choreographer pirouettes and complex rhythmic patterns of beats. Anuradha Parikh Stage designer Michael Nyman Composer Fabiana Piccioli Lighting designer Mary Moore Set and costume designer Kimie Nakano Costume designer Zephyr Quartet Musicians Nic Mollison Lighting designer Kaboom Studios (Jason Lam and Adam Synnott) Saturday 18 & Saturday 25 August 7.30pm Projection designers Sunday 19 August 7.30pm Timeless moves furthest from the classical Kathak roots of the company. & Sunday 26 August 2.30pm Entrancing, distinctive and exhilarating, Timeless utilises a totally new Royal Lyceum Theatre Festival Theatre, Edinburgh contemporary movement vocabulary and Mangaldas’s choreography Tickets draws you in to a compelling and many textured abstract world. Tickets Placing Michael Nyman’s String Quartet No 2 at the heart of the action, £30 £24 £20 £16 £10 £30 £27 £22 £17 £12 dancers are inspired and propelled by the witty and dynamic music, performed live on stage by the Zephyr Quartet. Dancers, musicians 1 hour 45 minutes approximately 1 hour 35 minutes approximately and cutting-edge visual technology play together to produce a stunning eif.co.uk/aditi eif.co.uk/leighwarren visualisation of the sound itself.
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Episode 31 European Premiere Juilliard Dance Alexander Ekman Choreographer Mikael Karlsson, Ane Brun and Erik Satie Music New York’s famous Juilliard School has trained dancers and choreographers who have gone Nicole Pearce Lighting designer on to influence the shape and evolution of dance around the world. Its impressive alumni include Luke Simcock Costume designer Ohad Naharin, artistic director of Batsheva Dance Company, and the late, great Pina Bausch. Encounter the future stars of dance in an exceptional triple bill.
Stylish young Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman’s new commission, exclusively for Juilliard, is an energetic playground of dance. Ekman, associate choreographer for Nederlands Dans Theater 2, contrasts pumping, almost tribal sequences with The Waldstein Sonata strong balletic poses to show off the Juilliard dancers’ José Limón Choreographer superb technique, youth and vigour. Ludwig van Beethoven Music Clifton Taylor Lighting designer Tracy DiGesu Costume designer Janet Pilla Staging Yuxi Qin Piano
Created by Juilliard teacher and modern dance pioneer José Limón, ‘They looked like they The Waldstein Sonata is set to Beethoven’s lively and playful sonata of
Photo Nan Melville could have danced all the same name and features many of Limón’s characteristic movements, sweeping gestures and group interaction. The music is performed live night; I certainly could by Yuxi Qin, a pianist from the Juilliard School. have watched them’ New York Times Gnawa Nacho Duato Choreographer and set designer ‘These performers look Devota and Lomba Costume designer Nicholas Fischtel Lighting designer ready to enter the Hassan Hakmoun, Adam Rudolph, Juan Arteche, profession. Wait – Xavier Paxadiño, Abou-Khalil, Velez, Kusur and Sarkissian Music Kevin Irving Staging they have entered it’ Village Voice
Driven by the rhythms of the Mediterranean, acclaimed Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato’s Gnawa captivates with sensual, bold and pulsating movement.
Saturday 25 – Monday 27 August 8.00pm The Edinburgh Playhouse Supported by Tickets Léan Scully EIF Fund £30 £27 £22 £17 £12 £10 2 hours approximately With additional support from
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‘a superb international troupe Photo Gadi Dagon of dancers… an ambitious and thoughtful choreographer’ The Daily Telegraph on Batsheva Hora Dance Company, Festival 2008
Batsheva Dance Company
Ohad Naharin Choreographer Avi Yona Bueno Lighting and stage designer Anna Mirkin Costume designer Isao Tomita and Ryoji Ikeda Music
Hora is a thrilling spectacle of movement, an emotional rollercoaster that successfully highlights – in a company that deliberately works without soloists – the uniqueness of each one of the dancers. Set against a stark, luminous green background, the dancers’ athleticism, technique and energy take centre stage, showing beautiful asymmetrical shapes with immense grace and visceral physicality in hyper-definition.
Led by artistic director Ohad Naharin, one of the world’s most distinctive choreographers, Batsheva Dance Company makes a welcome return to the Festival following 2008’s sensational Deca Dance.
Isao Tomita’s alien soundtrack blends great classical works by Wagner, Ives and Debussy with the theme from Star Wars and music featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey, as the dancers twist, jerk and articulate their way through Naharin’s striking choreography with insect-like precision and grace. Sexy and elegant, Hora sees contemporary dance flirt with science fiction in a production that is out of this world.
Co-produced by Montpellier Danse 2010 and Lincoln Center Festival, New York
Thursday 30 August – Saturday 1 September 7.30pm The Edinburgh Playhouse
Tickets £30 £27 £22 £17 £12 £10 1 hour approximately
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‘Spectacular... aptly captures the magic and hope of the well-known fairytale. In short, it is genius.’ Ballet-Dance Magazine Valentin Baranovsky Photo Valentin Photo Natasha Razina
Thursday 30 August – Saturday The legendary Mariinsky Ballet Artist in Residence with American Supported by 1 September 7.30pm brings Charles Perrault’s classic Ballet Theatre and former Director Harold Mitchell Esq, AC Saturday 1 September 2.30pm fairytale to the Festival, in this of the Bolshoi Ballet, Alexei large-scale production that Ratmansky is one of the most Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Production Sponsor offers a sumptuous mix of sought after choreographers
Tickets engrossing storytelling and in the world. His exquisite and Cinderella £46 £39.50 £32 £25 £20 £12 grand classical ballet with inventive choreography blends a fresh contemporary twist. classical ballet with innovative Mariinsky UK tour MUSIC BY SERGEI PROKOFIEV 2 hours 50 minutes approximately movement that is full of wit, supported by BP VALERY GERGIEV CONDUCTOR eif.co.uk/cinderella Cinderella is forbidden from going charm and character. to the ball, and instead is forced Saturday 1 September to do the dirtiest household chores. Complete with a full corps When an old tramp appears and de ballet, the dancers’ every 7.15pm Cinderella takes pity on her, she movement is highlighted and Mariinsky Ballet reveals herself to be a fairy and intensified by Prokofiev’s gorgeous
grants Cinderella her greatest musical score performed live by Valery Gergiev Music director and conductor wish – it seems she will go to the Mariinsky Orchestra and led by Alexei Ratmansky Choreographer the ball after all. the great Valery Gergiev. Prepare Ilya Utkin and Yeveny Monakhov Set designers to be captivated, entranced and Elena Markovskaya Costume designer But there is one condition: she enchanted in equal measure. Gleb Filshtinsky Lighting designer must leave by midnight or the magic spell will be broken.
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Throughout Festival 2012, Edinburgh’s Arthur’s Seat is the focus for Angus Farquhar Creative director a remarkable fusion of innovative public art and sporting endeavour. Jane Connarty Associate director Litza Bixler Choreographer Through a mass choreographed act of walking and endurance running, Phil Supple Lighting designer NVA’s Speed of Light will illuminate the iconic mountain, which James Johnson Product designer rises dramatically from the heart of the city. A mesmerising visual display Resonance Radio Orchestra Sound design NVA’s unfolds on the ascent to the summit as hundreds of runners wearing specially commissioned light suits take to the intricate path networks below. As a member of the walking audience, you become part of the work, with portable light sources set against the dark features of the mountainside.
Speed of Light In 2012, NVA’s Speed of Light, also includes working with seven of Edinburgh’s other Festivals on a programme of curated events, lectures, workshops and discussions investigating human endurance, through the World Premiere subculture of long-distance running and the experience of the runner. NVA’s Speed of Light is one of only four national projects commissioned by Legacy Trust UK’s Community Celebrations programme, which aims to build a lasting legacy from the UK’s hosting of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 9 –12, 15 –19, 22–27, 29–31 August and 1 September Guided walking groups meet at Speed of Light base Supported by Please note, all walking participants will require a level of physical fitness to climb Arthur’s Seat and sturdy footwear must be worn. every 15 minutes at 9.15pm, 9.30pm, 9.45pm, Participants must be aged 12 or over, with children under 16 10.00pm, 10.15pm, 10.30pm, 10.45pm and 11.00pm accompanied by an adult. Please contact Hub Tickets for details Arthur’s Seat, Holyrood Park, or visit eif.co.uk/speedoflight near Holyrood Palace car park
This performance contains some flash lighting. Tickets Product sponsor GDS £24 £18 concessions 2 hours 30 minutes approximately For advice about levels of physical fitness or mobility please refer to speedoflight2012.org.uk or contact Hub Tickets. eif.co.uk/speedoflight Photos Alan McAteer
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LEOŠ JANÁCˇ EK LIBRETTO BY LEOŠ JANÁCˇ EK AFTER KAREL Cˇ APEK
New Production Premiere
Sung in English with English supertitles
Do you wish for immortality? Janácˇ ek’s penultimate opera is Opera North Even if your endless life would at once a mystery thriller and a be one without love? meditation on desire and eternal Emilia Marty Ylva Kihlberg life. It keeps its audience guessing Albert Gregor Paul Nilon The squabbling over the contested until its thrilling conclusion’s Vítek Mark Le Brocq will of Baron Jaroslav Prus has transcendent revelations on life Kristina Stephanie Corley gone on for almost a century, but and love, and features some of Jaroslav Prus Robert Hayward the mysterious opera diva Emilia the composer’s most radiant, Janek Adrian Dwyer Marty seems to know far more life-affirming music. Dr Kolenatý James Creswell than she should about the history Hauk-Šendorf Nigel Robson of the case. Men inexplicably fall Richard Farnes conducts the at her feet and, strangely eager premiere of this new production Richard Farnes Conductor to possess an arcane document by acclaimed director Tom Cairns, Tom Cairns Director hidden with Prus’s will, she with an exceptional cast of soloists. Hildegard Bechtler Set designer coldly uses them to discover Bruno Poet Lighting designer its whereabouts.
Saturday 11 August & Artwork © Opera North Monday 13 August 7.15pm Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
Tickets £68 £60 £52 £42 £30 £20 £16 2 hours 30 minutes approximately
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David et Jonathas
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER LIBRETTO BY FRANÇOIS BRETONNEAU
Sung in French with English supertitles
Les Arts Florissants
Jonathas Ana Quintans David Pascal Charbonneau Achis Frédéric Caton La Pythonisse Dominique Visse Joabel Kresimir Spicer Saul Neal Davies William Christie Conductor Andreas Homoki Stage production Paul Zoller Set designer Gideon Davey Costume designer Franck Evin Lighting designer
Love, jealousy, witchcraft and war: Charpentier’s 1688 sacred opera is a dramatic and moving reinterpretation of an Old Testament tragedy set on the eve of battle.
Envious of the close friendship between his son Jonathas and David, King Saul banishes David from the Israelite camp. Despite his desire for peace, David reluctantly joins the rival Philistine army, only too aware that he may be forced to fight his beloved friend in the coming war. When battle commences, will anybody be able to claim a true victory?
David et Jonathas is one of Charpentier’s most dramatic stage works, full of stirring music and passionate arias that convey its achingly poignant story.
Conductor William Christie’s reputation for interpreting the works of the great French Baroque composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier is second to none: he even named his Friday 17 August, exceptional period ensemble, Les Arts Florissants, after another of the composer’s operas. His cast are some of the top names in early opera and the production is by acclaimed Sunday 19 August & German director Andreas Homoki. Monday 20 August 7.15pm Festival Theatre, Edinburgh A new production from Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Tickets Co-produced by Opéra Comique, Théâtre de Caen and Teatro Real. £68 £60 £52 £42 £30 £20 £16 2 hours 45 minutes approximately Supported by
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‘Subtly haunting and quietly powerful… I want to hear it again soon.’ The Daily Telegraph on Clemency Photo Stephen Cummiskey
The Lady from the Sea Clemency In the Locked Room & Ghost Patrol
Craig Armstrong James MacMillan In the Locked Room Libretto by Zoë Strachan Libretto by Michael Symmons Roberts Huw Watkins Libretto by David Harsent Scottish Based on a play by Henrik Ibsen Based on a short story by Thomas Hardy Derek Clark Conductor Michael McCarthy Director World Premiere Katie Mitchell Director Ghost Patrol Derek Clark Conductor Stuart MacRae Libretto by Louise Welsh Opera Harry Fehr Director Matthew Richardson Director Sarah and Abraham are visited in their old age by three travellers. Their conversation becomes increasingly unsettling and the visitors World Premieres make the unlikely claim that Sarah is to have a new child. As the couple All sung in English Ellida, daughter of a lighthouse-keeper, lives a narrow life with a wonder who the bearers of such news might be, talk turns to a mission Michael Rafferty Conductor With players from The Orchestra of Scottish Opera husband several years her senior. She is full of longing for the sea and of vengeance, and a horrifying plan that leaves them pleading for their for freedom, and the arrival of a mysterious stranger creates a storm neighbours’ lives. that threatens to submerge the whole family. He offers an escape from These four new works are the culmination of a the stifling world she inhabits, and Ellida must decide whether to do her Clemency puts a contemporary twist to a Biblical tale, creating the A closed door sparks an obsession so strong that the boundaries five-year plan by Scotland’s national opera company duty or answer the call of the sea… spiritual intensity and reflection for which James MacMillan’s work between reality and fantasy begin to blur. A modern day bar where to explore what opera might mean in the 21st is so well known, and was received to great acclaim at its world three people who are trying to escape their past collide, uncovering century. The first stage, Five:15 – Operas Made in Known equally for his popular music collaborations and his scores premiere in London’s Royal Opera House in May 2011. MacMillan’s a terrible secret and unleashing inevitable tragedy. Scotland, saw 15 new, short operas developed in for cinema and stage, including Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet and richly coloured 50-minute work is for the intimate forces of five singers partnerships between some of the leading artistic Moulin Rouge!, Armstrong is a pioneering musician whose distinctive and string orchestra and is a haunting piece with a potent lasting impact. Presented as a double bill, these two short operas explore the lights in Scotland. As part of the celebration of classical works have been praised for their delicacy and beauty. capacity of the mind to shape our lives, whether through the potency Scottish Opera’s 50th anniversary, this year the of imagination or the overwhelming power of memories. Composers Company presents longer pieces created by teams The Lady from the Sea also makes use of video design, playing to Commissioned by Scottish Opera, ROH2, Britten Sinfonia and Boston Huw Watkins and Stuart MacRae hail from a generation who are rapidly from Scotland and further afield. Armstrong’s extensive cinematic experience. Lyric Opera. Co-produced by Scottish Opera and ROH2. establishing themselves amongst the leading composers in the UK. Huw Watkins teams up with multi award-winning poet David Harsent and Stuart MacRae with acclaimed crime novelist Louise Welsh to Special Ticket Offer Book all 3 performances A Scottish Opera and Edinburgh International Festival co-production. bring these evocative tales to the stage. for only £60 and save 20%.
Co-commissioned and co-produced by Scottish Opera and Music Theatre Wales. Friday 31 August 8.00pm & Saturday 1 September 4.00pm King’s Theatre, Edinburgh Thursday 30 August 8.00pm, Wednesday 29 August 8.00pm & Saturday 1 September 12 noon Tickets Saturday 1 September 9.00pm & Sunday 2 September 3.00pm £25 £12.50 King’s Theatre, Edinburgh Traverse Theatre 50 minutes approximately Tickets Tickets eif.co.uk/clemency Supported through the £25 £12.50 £25 Scottish Government’s Saturday 1 September 1 hour 20 minutes approximately 2 hours 10 minutes approximately Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund eif.co.uk/ladyfromthesea 2.45pm 3.45pm eif.co.uk/lockedroom-ghostpatrol
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The Opening Concert Royal Scottish National Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis Conductor Edinburgh Festival Chorus Christopher Bell Chorus Master A Mass Anna Christy Soprano Pamela Helen Stephen Mezzo soprano Robert Murray Tenor of Life Hanno Müller-Brachmann Bass baritone Photo Kristin Hoebermann the and the Holy Grail, from Photo The Round Table School Lancelot du Lac’, 1470 by French de Messire ‘Livre The Bridgeman Art Library/Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris FREDERICK DELIUS The Opening Concert presents one of the grandest choral pieces ever written: Delius’s A Mass of Life. Not a mass in any traditional Tristan und Isolde King Arthur religious sense, the work is instead a glorious choral celebration of positivity, of man’s will to embrace the rich possibilities of life and of our RICHARD WAGNER HENRY PURCELL Friday 10 August 7.30pm potential for strength, energy, pride and sincerity. Using a text drawn Usher Hall from Nietzsche’s Also sprach Zarathustra, it’s an exceptionally beautiful score and one of Delius’s crowning achievements, with music of huge Welsh National Opera The Sixteen Tickets joy and passion. £46 £39 £32 £26 £20 £12 Concert performance sung in German Concert performance sung in English 2 hours 10 minutes approximately Sir Andrew Davis has a reputation second to none in his interpretations of British music, delivering performances full of vivid detail and visceral eif.co.uk/opening excitement. He’s joined by four exceptional soloists from Britain, Tristan Ben Heppner Sophie Bevan Soprano Germany and America, and the massed forces of the Edinburgh Isolde Jennifer Wilson Robert Murray Tenor Festival Chorus. Brangäne Susan Bickley Jonathan Lemalu Bass baritone Sponsored by Kurwenal Phillip Joll King Marke Matthew Best Harry Christophers Conductor Melot Simon Thorpe
Lothar Koenigs Conductor Making its fourth consecutive appearance at the Festival, including the acclaimed performance of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen in 2009, The Sixteen brings its expertise in early English music to bear on Wagner’s extraordinary opera Tristan und Isolde is one of the most the spectacular Restoration drama King Arthur. powerful experiences that the artform has to offer. Its glorious music, possessed of remarkable strength and subtlety, conveys a mystical With music by Purcell and a libretto by poet laureate John Dryden, story of a love so profound it can only be fully realised in death. the piece recounts not the legends of Camelot but the raging battles It is hard not to fall under the heady spell of the work’s unstoppable between King Arthur’s god-fearing Britons and the heathen Saxons yearnings and ever-mounting tensions. to save Arthur’s intended, the blind Princess Emmeline of Cornwall. A masterpiece of 17th-century patriotism, it contains some of Purcell’s Welsh National Opera music director Lothar Koenigs is acclaimed for his most lyrical and powerful music, with rousing martial episodes, tender Wagner interpretations that grasp the music’s natural ebb and flow yet arias including the famous ‘Fairest Isle’, and a glorious final vision of are never overblown. He directs a cast of exceptional operatic talents. a united Britain.
‘Ben Heppner is, quite simply, the eminent Wagnerian.’ ‘Harry Christophers conducted with the lightest and sunniest The Vancouver Province of touches’ The Daily Telegraph
Jennifer Wilson: ‘Through her voice she could tell the audience ‘a measured, polished performance, stylishly articulated’ The Guardian volumes about a single word.’ The Houston Chronicle
Wednesday 15 August 5.00pm Supported by Monday 27 August 7.30pm Supported by Usher Hall The Stevenston Usher Hall Charitable Trust Tickets Tickets £46 £39 £32 £26 £20 £12 £42 £35 £26 £24 £17 £12 5 hours 10 minutes approximately 2 hours 10 minutes approximately
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Scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Midsummer Night’s Scene from
Photo John Wood Photo Dario Acosta Photo Photo Chris Christodoulou Titiana and Boltom by Edwin Landseer, 1848–51 (detail), Titiana and Boltom by Edwin Landseer, Melbourne National Gallery of Victoria, Felton Bequest, 1932 Alpine Symphony Deborah Voigt Soprano A Midsummer London BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Brian Zeger Piano Night’s Dream Philharmonic Orchestra
Donald Runnicles Conductor Songs by Amy Beach, Verdi, Richard Strauss, Respighi, Scottish Chamber Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski Conductor Ben Moore and Bernstein Beethoven Symphony No 6 ‘Pastoral’ Sir Roger Norrington Conductor Tatiana Monogarova Soprano Strauss Alpine Symphony Sergei Skorokhodov Tenor Angelika Kirchschlager Mezzo soprano Vladimir Chernov Baritone The celebrated American soprano Deborah Voigt has been lauded for Sophie Bevan Soprano her vivid characterisation and soaring voice. She returns in a concert Mary Bevan Soprano Edinburgh Festival Chorus Donald Runnicles and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra return contrasting richly Romantic songs from Europe with a diverse selection Christopher Bell Chorus Master to the Festival with two transcendental evocations of nature and of dazzling American vocal works, accompanied by her regular NYCoS National Girls Choir landscape, following last year’s memorable performance of Mahler’s collaborator, US pianist Brian Zeger. Christopher Bell Chorus Master Denisov Bells in the Fog ‘Resurrection’ Symphony. Myaskovsky Silentium Voigt’s choice of Verdi songs, including the folk-like Stornello and the Berlioz Les nuits d’été Rodion Shchedrin Concerto for Orchestra No 2 ‘The Chimes’ Beethoven’s much-loved ‘Pastoral’ Symphony conveys the peace and drinking song Brindisi, were not written for his operas, but they are Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream Rachmaninov The Bells happiness that the composer found in the natural world in music full still full of drama and theatricality. Voigt is known as a specialist in of drama and wonder, complete with episodes describing a babbling the turbulent, emotionally charged Lieder of Richard Strauss, which brook, enchanting birdsong and a tumultuous storm. sit perfectly alongside Respighi’s deceptively simple songs, whose caressing melodies reveal a deep intensity. Mendelssohn’s incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream Tolling Russian bells resound throughout the London Philharmonic It is a mountain tempest that Strauss portrays in his Alpine Symphony, transports us to Shakespeare’s fairy world with its enchanting Orchestra’s all-Russian programme. Rachmaninov’s grand choral a piece that charts a day’s climbing from the foreboding of night to its The 3 Songs by Robert Browning by US composer Amy Beach are evocations, including the well-loved ‘Wedding March’. Sir Roger symphony The Bells charts a startling journey from birth to death in glorious vision from the summit. Written on a grand scale, and for an sensitive creations, with abruptly changing moods, and the concert Norrington, one of the founding fathers of historically informed music of jubilation, passion and redemption. Vladimir Jurowski directs enormous orchestra including organ, a huge battery of percussion and songs by Bernstein and contemporary composer Ben Moore combine performance, has long produced striking and unforgettable three Russian-born soloists and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus in this an off-stage brass band, the Symphony summons a majestic vision easy tunefulness with a grand, romantic sweep. interpretations of cherished masterpieces. The sensitivity of the moving masterpiece based on verse by Edgar Allan Poe. that is the ideal canvas for Runnicles and his orchestra. Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s gossamer sound is the perfect match for Mendelssohn’s magical textures. The same writer is the inspiration behind the vivid musical storytelling ‘She has a magnificent voice: huge, agile, even, lustrous and individual.’ in Myaskovsky’s Silentium, which follows Edison Denisov’s mysterious ‘The BBC SSO’s playing was transcendent... one of the most beautiful The Washington Post The Shakespearean theme is established in Berlioz’s languid Les nuits and impressionistic Bells in the Fog. The colourful Second Concerto for things I have ever heard.’ The Herald d’été, settings of six poems by French poet Théophile Gautier that pay Orchestra by Rodion Shchedrin, named ‘The Chimes’, evokes the bells affectionate homage to the great English dramatist. Celebrated Austrian and powerfully expressive chant of ancient Russia. mezzo soprano Angelika Kirchschlager is famed for the warmth and This concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at a future date. vividness of her readings, ideal qualities in these beautifully crafted songs of love, desire and longing. ‘The orchestral sound glowed, glittered and swooned’ The Guardian
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Nicola Benedetti Violin Brahms Tragic Overture Toby Spence Tenor Denis Matsuev Piano Szymanowski Symphony No 2 Leonidas Kavakos Violin Szymanowski Symphony No 1 Brahms Symphony No 2 Edinburgh Festival Chorus Violin Concerto No 1 Christopher Bell Chorus Master Szymanowski Symphony No 4 Brahms Symphony No 1 Violin Concerto No 2 ‘ThisBrahms orchestraSymphony No 3 consistently Brahms Symphony No 4 Brahms’s Second is the sunniest of the composer’s four symphonies, turnsBrahms Variations out performances on a theme by Haydn a cut its cheerful, pastoral mood drawing comparisons with Beethoven’s Szymanowski Symphony No 3 ‘Song of the Night’ Powerhouse conductor Valery Gergiev, the Edinburgh International well-loved ‘Pastoral’ Symphony. The piece’s tender melodies and genial above their rivals’ Festival’s Honorary President, brings the London Symphony Orchestra intimacy are only clouded by the briefest of storms in the brooding slow Valery Gergiev concludes the LSO’s festival residency with the final to the festival for what promises to be a fascinating four-concert movement, revealing the steely strength behind the naive charm that London Evening Standard symphonic creations by both Brahms and Szymanowski. Brahms’s residency contrasting the glowing nobility of Brahms with the exotic, Brahms evokes in the work. Szymanowski’s Third Symphony is one of the composer’s most Fourth Symphony is the summation of his orchestral music, serious perfumed passions of Szymanowski. admired and most sumptuous works, an intoxicating creation yet transcendent, passionate but intellectually rigorous. It’s hard not Szymanowski’s dramatic Second Symphony, on the other hand, is a for tenor soloist, choir and orchestra that describes the soul’s to feel moved by the slow unfolding of the final movement’s towering It was her performance of Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No 1 that grand statement that shows the impact of Mahler and Richard Strauss, communication with God during a starlit Persian night. Evoking passacaglia, based on church music by Bach. won Ayrshire-born violinist Nicola Benedetti the BBC Young Musician while also drawing on the lush impressionism of Debussy. Sensuous and the subtle colours of Debussy, Ravel and Scriabin, its shimmering title in 2004 at the age of 16, and the Polish composer’s sensuous, passionate, and scored for a huge orchestra, it has gorgeous melodies, orchestral textures convey the mysteries of the supernatural in Szymanowski’s Symphony No 4 is a piano concerto in all but name, its mystical music has been in her blood ever since. brilliant colours and a magnificent conclusion. iridescent, ecstatic music. percussive brilliance tempered by magical moments of lyrical reflection.
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Philippe Herreweghe Conductor Franz Welser-Möst Conductor Franz Welser-Möst Conductor Gianandrea Noseda Conductor
Hanna-Elisabeth Müller Soprano Lutoslawski Concerto for Orchestra Lars Vogt Piano Garrick Ohlsson Piano Okka von der Damerau Alto Smetana Má Vlast (parts 1 – 4) Maximilian Schmitt Tenor Lutoslawski Piano Concerto Edinburgh Festival Chorus Tareq Nazmi Bass Smetana Má Vlast (parts 5 – 6) Christopher Bell Chorus Master Shostakovich Symphony No 6 Collegium Vocale Gent Best known for the unforgettable ‘Vltava’ (also known as ‘The Moldau’), Richard Causton Twenty-Seven Heavens which vividly depicts the country’s mighty river, the six symphonic (New Music 20x12 UK premiere) Brahms Gesang der Parzen poems of Má Vlast, ‘My Homeland’, conjure the spirit of Smetana’s Debussy Nocturnes Bruckner Te Deum beloved Bohemia, conveying its history, traditions and nature in music Franz Welser-Möst concludes the Cleveland Orchestra’s account of Busoni Piano Concerto Symphony No 9 of wonder and imagination. Smetana’s Má Vlast with the powerful final movements, which depict the glories of Bohemian pride in music of blazing defiance. Shostakovich Franz Welser-Möst and his mighty Cleveland Orchestra bring their power wrote his seldom-heard Symphony No 6 just after the dark years of The exceptional young players of the European Union Youth Orchestra and precision to the piece in a welcome return to the Festival. Folk Stalin’s purges, and the jollity of its conclusion makes a startling contrast take on one of the largest and grandest piano concertos ever written. Following their acclaimed festival appearance in 2009, music, this time from Poland, also lies behind Lutoslawski’s colourful with its haunting opening. Busoni’s vast creation, with a male chorus swelling its overwhelming Philippe Herreweghe and his period-instrument Orchestre des Concerto for Orchestra, a virtuoso showpiece that shines a spotlight conclusion, is rarely performed because of the demands it places on Champs-Élysées return with transcendental music by two of the on the individual talents of Cleveland’s exceptional players. Compelling German pianist Lars Vogt is the soloist in Lutoslawski’s its performers. The rich, deep sound of acclaimed US pianist Garrick greatest 19th-century composers. Piano Concerto, a piece full of energy and shimmering colours that Ohlsson is ideal for the piece’s vast canvas. proudly displays the inspiration its composer took from Chopin and Brahms’s searching Gesang der Parzen (‘Song of the Fates’) is ‘This world-class orchestra... outshines all competitors these days’ Rachmaninov. It’s the perfect showpiece for Vogt’s combination of Conductor Gianandrea Noseda also brings his thrilling energy to bear a brooding meditation on man’s destiny, expressed in a work of The Wall Street Journal muscularity and refinement, and for the remarkable warmth and clarity on Debussy’s magical Nocturnes, three sound portraits of subtle shades tremendous power. The spiritual theme continues in the joyful Te Deum of the Cleveland Orchestra’s sound. and dazzling light. Twenty-Seven Heavens, by Richard Causton, is part by one of music’s most profound mystical explorers, Anton Bruckner. of New Music 20x12, delivered by PRS for Music Foundation with the BBC, LOCOG and NMC Recordings. Bruckner’s monumental Ninth Symphony is the composer’s crowning ‘The Cleveland Orchestra is one of the greatest in the world orchestral achievement, a piece that explores profound emotions yet – the playing is perfection.’ The Guardian remains possessed of a serene, radiant mysticism. Herreweghe has ‘The EUYO played... with such vitality and brilliance that they certainly devoted his career to returning masterworks to their original essences, turned heads.’ Berliner Zeitung and tonight his orchestra plays instruments from Bruckner’s time.
This concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at a future date. This concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at a future date.
Monday 20 August 8.00pm Tuesday 21 August 8.00pm Supported by Wednesday 22 August 8.00pm Supported by Thursday 23 August 8.00pm Sponsored by Usher Hall Usher Hall Edinburgh International Usher Hall Edinburgh International Usher Hall Festival Friends and Patrons Festival Friends and Patrons Tickets Tickets Tickets Tickets £42 £35 £26 £24 £17 £12 £42 £35 £26 £24 £17 £12 £42 £35 £26 £24 £17 £12 £42 £35 £26 £24 £17 £12 Performance of Lutoslawski Performance of Lutoslawski 1 hour 55 minutes approximately 1 hour 45 minutes approximately supported by 2 hours approximately supported by 2 hours 10 minutes approximately With additional support from
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Untitled-5 44 22/02/2012 15:26 Untitled-5 45 22/02/2012 15:26 46 Music Music 47 ürti Ákos Marco Borggreve Photo Marco K Photo Borggreve Photo Marco Photo Silvia Lelli Hartung Photo akg-images/Gerd Gustav Mahler The Budapest City of Birmingham Jugendorchester Nutcracker Festival Orchestra Symphony Orchestra
Daniele Gatti Conductor BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Iván Fischer Conductor Andris Nelsons Conductor
Wagner Prelude to Act 3 from Parsifal Ilan Volkov Conductor József Lendvay Violin Baiba Skride Violin Good Friday Music from Parsifal Mahler Symphony No 7 National Youth Choir of Scotland Bartók Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz100 Sofia Gubaidulina Offertorium, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Christopher Bell Chorus Master Violin Concerto No 1 Sibelius Symphony No 2 Mahler Symphony No 5 Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker (complete ballet) The Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester is one of the world’s most revered ensembles of young musicians – and also one of the largest, with over Often considered to embody the spirit of Finnish nationalism, Sibelius’s 80 string players alone. None of its members is over the age of 26, Iván Fischer founded the Budapest Festival Orchestra 29 years ago Second Symphony is one of the composer’s warmest pieces, emerging and they are hand-picked from the best young musicians throughout Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker suite is one of the composer’s best-loved and today it is one of central Europe’s most prestigious ensembles, from forest murmuring at its opening to the blazing light of its grandiose Europe. Famed for its breathtaking energy, agility and great sonic beauty, works, with timeless pieces including the ‘Trepak’, ‘Waltz of the Flowers’ its unmistakable sound combining Magyar fire with thrilling spontaneity. conclusion’s triumphant fanfares. the orchestra excels in music on a grand scale, including the works by and ‘Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy’. Hearing the suite’s wealth of It is just the orchestra to bring a spellbinding authenticity to its the two great 19th-century composers in tonight’s programme. melody in its rightful place as part of Tchaikovsky’s complete ballet score compatriot Béla Bartók’s folk-inspired Hungarian Peasant Songs, The violin concerto Offertorium by Tartar-born composer Sofia places the famous movements in their true dramatic context, and also and to his youthful First Violin Concerto, a tender musical love letter Gubaidulina has become a modern classic, its profound spiritual Mahler’s dark-hued Symphony No 7 charts a journey from dusk offers the chance to discover lesser-known gems. that went unanswered. Soloist József Lendvay, too, is steeped in message conveyed in music of glowing transcendance. Written in to dawn, with music that is passionate and lyrical, yet also at times Magyar culture: the son of a Hungarian folk musician, he brings defiance of Soviet oppression, its score was smuggled out of the chilling and grotesque. Conductor Daniele Gatti has a well-established Ilan Volkov directs the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in sumptuous a virile virtuosity to the music of his homeland. USSR for its 1981 premiere in Vienna. It is just the piece to showcase reputation as a fine Mahlerian. He also has an instinctive flair for opera, music that’s perfect for festive occasions of all seasons, and enchants the lyricism and emotional depth of Latvian-born violinist Baiba and conducts the mystical orchestral meditations from Wagner’s final listeners whatever their age. The famous Adagietto used in Visconti’s 1971 film Death in Venice Skride’s playing to the full. stage work. forms the slow movement of Mahler’s Symphony No 5. It is a beautiful love song without words. Hearing the whole symphony is a triumphant This concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at a future date. journey from tragedy to jubilation. ‘Andris Nelsons is six-and-a-half feet of pure energy’ The Daily Telegraph ‘As an exercise in orchestral technique it was supreme, as a musical encounter it was better still.’ New Statesman ‘there really is something going on between Nelsons and the ‘The Budapest Festival Orchestra filled the Royal Albert Hall with CBSO… an alchemy that makes the combination irresistible ‘Simply ravishing... an extraordinary phenomenon’ The Scotsman pounding, blinding energy.’ The Daily Telegraph in concert.’ The Guardian
‘the sheer power of the Budapest players took the breath away’ The Scotsman
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Friday 24 August 8.00pm Sponsored by Saturday 25 August 7.30pm Sponsored by Sunday 26 August 7.30pm Sponsored by Tuesday 28 August 8.00pm Baiba Skride’s performance supported by Usher Hall Usher Hall Usher Hall Usher Hall Mr and Mrs Tickets Tickets Tickets Tickets James Anderson £42 £35 £26 £24 £17 £12 £42 £35 £26 £24 £17 £12 £42 £35 £26 £24 £17 £12 £42 £35 £26 £24 £17 £12 2 hours 10 minutes approximately 2 hours approximately 2 hours 15 minutes approximately 1 hour 45 minutes approximately
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Photo Bernard Benant Photo Clive Barda Photo Felix Broede London The National Gallery, Photo akg-images The English Concert Philharmonia Scottish Belshazzar’s David Daniels Orchestra Chamber Orchestra Feast
Harry Bicket Director and harpsichord Esa-Pekka Salonen Conductor Robin Ticciati Conductor Royal Scottish National Orchestra
David Daniels Countertenor Viviane Hagner Violin Alina Pogostkina Violin David Robertson Conductor Nadja Zwiener Violin Anja Kampe Soprano Katharina Spreckelsen Oboe Unsuk Chin Violin Concerto Sir Willard White Bass baritone Neal Davies Baritone Bruckner Symphony No 4 in E flat ‘Romantic’ A. Scarlatti Sinfonia ‘Clori, Dorino e Amore’ Mahler What the Wild Flowers Tell Me (arr. Britten) Edinburgh Festival Chorus Cantata ‘Perchè tacete, regolati concenti’ Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Christopher Bell Chorus Master J.S. Bach Concerto in A for oboe d’amore BWV1055 Shostakovich Symphony No 14 Concerto in C minor for oboe and violin BWV1060 Principal conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the Philharmonia Ives The Unanswered Question Vivaldi Cantata ‘Cessate, omai cessate’ Orchestra in Bruckner’s magnificent Fourth Symphony, one of the Feldman Coptic Light Handel ‘Crede l’uom’ from Il trinofo del tempo e del disinganno composer’s most popular works. Walton Belshazzar’s Feast ‘Voi che udite’ from Agrippina Lyricism and virtuosity mingle in Tchaikovsky’s brilliant Violin Concerto, ‘Perfido’ from Radamisto Nicknamed the ‘Romantic’ in reference to its themes of medieval a showpiece of agility and speed that also demands great sensitivity chivalry, the Symphony moves from an evocative awakening of nature in its wistful slow movement. Its soloist, Russian-born violinist Alina in its first movement to the majestic affirmations of its conclusion in Pogostkina, is one of the most sought-after young talents today, The Festival’s concert programme concludes as it began: with grand, music of radiant grandeur. praised for her subtle nuances and fiery passion. celebratory British choral music. Walton’s much-loved Belshazzar’s World-renowned countertenor David Daniels joins The English Concert, Feast is one of the composer’s most acclaimed pieces, telling of the one of Europe’s most celebrated period-instrument ensembles, for The Violin Concerto by South Korean-born composer Unsuk Chin won The carefree mood is earlier set by What the Wild Flowers Tell Me, Jews’ miraculous regaining of their freedom following the fall of the sparkling vocal and instrumental showpieces by some of the continent’s the 2004 Grawemeyer Award, contemporary music’s most coveted Britten’s delicate arrangement of the second movement of Mahler’s Babylonian King Belshazzar. Welsh-born baritone Neal Davies, a regular greatest Baroque composers. prize, for its glittering sounds and expressive beauty. German violinist Third Symphony, one of the composer’s most graceful, gentle pieces. visitor to the Festival, takes the demanding solo part in a thrilling work Viviane Hagner, tonight’s soloist, knows the virtuosic solo part better full of rich orchestration and fiery climaxes. Daniels’s peerless lyricism and infectious energy will be put to good use than anyone: she gave the first performance in 2002, and even Conductor Robin Ticciati changes the atmosphere completely with in three passionate arias by Handel. Scarlatti’s Perchè tacete, regolati advised the composer on the score. Shostakovich’s Symphony No 14, a gripping examination of our American conductor David Robertson precedes Walton’s opulent concenti and Vivaldi’s Cessate, omai cessate are intense cantatas of mortality that rages against death and celebrates life. It’s a riveting oratorio with music by two of his pioneering compatriots. Ives’s unrequited love, one full of ornate floating melodies, the other brimming setting of 11 poems for two singers and chamber orchestra, for The Unanswered Question is an enigmatic piece with a solo trumpet with rage and heartbreak – and both ideal settings for Daniels’s vivid ‘The orchestra were at the top of their game’ The Guardian which Ticciati is joined by two celebrated soloists – the outstanding throwing out interrogations to the cosmos. The shimmering web of characterisation and gymnastic vocal abilities. German-born soprano Anja Kampe and the powerful bass baritone hushed sounds that forms Morton Feldman’s Coptic Light delights ‘The Philharmonia’s playing was terrific, in detail and in grand design’ Sir Willard White. the ear with its luminous patterns of light and shade. The Observer ‘Bicket is a sure and stylish Baroque hand and directed his colleagues with grace and aplomb’ Chicago Classical Review Robin Ticciati and Scottish Chamber Orchestra: ‘One of the great partnerships in British music’ The Daily Telegraph
Wednesday 29 August 7.30pm Supported by Thursday 30 August 8.00pm Supported by Friday 31 August 7.30pm Supported by Saturday 1 September 8.00pm Sponsored by Usher Hall American Friends Usher Hall Joscelyn Fox Usher Hall Donald and Usher Hall of the Edinburgh Louise MacDonald Tickets International Festival Tickets Tickets Tickets £42 £35 £26 £24 £17 £12 £42 £35 £26 £24 £17 £12 £42 £35 £26 £24 £17 £12 £42 £35 £26 £24 £17 £12 1 hour 45 minutes approximately 1 hour 55 minutes approximately 2 hours approximately 1 hour 40 minutes approximately
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Garry Walker Conductor
Walton Orb and Sceptre Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (excerpts) Walton Suite from Henry V (excerpts)
Bringing Edinburgh’s summer festival season to a magnificent conclusion, the Virgin Money Fireworks Concert combines passionate music from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra with breathtaking Perfomed by the Musicians of the pyrotechnics, specially choreographed by international fireworks artists Imperial Household Agency, Tokyo Pyrovision to enhance the musical experience. It is all set against the Gagaku stunning backdrop of Edinburgh’s historic castle.
This year’s Virgin Money Fireworks Concert is a feast of pageantry and Gagaku is the world’s oldest living orchestral tradition. This music of patriotism, celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and also echoing Imperial Court Music unforgettable elegance and beauty dates back to 5th century Japan. the Festival’s Shakespearean offerings. Performed by a powerful ensemble of wind instruments, plucked strings and Dance of Japan and deeply resonant percussion, its slow-moving melodies and exquisite Walton’s noble Orb and Sceptre march was written for the coronation harmonies suggest a serene world of ancient ritual and contemplation. of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. It is followed by Vaughan Williams’s glowing pastoral evocation of the folk song ‘Greensleeves’. Prokofiev’s Gagaku performances are as arresting to watch as they are to hear. ballet score for Romeo and Juliet is where the greatest love story meets Dancers interpret the stately music with stylised movements, and the greatest entertainment, and is well-known to viewers of the BBC’s the musicians’ dramatic costumes and the dazzling decor are just The Apprentice. The concert’s triumphant conclusion is Walton’s music as important as the astonishing music. for Laurence Olivier’s great 1944 film Henry V.
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Sunday 2 September 9.00pm Tickets Ross Theatre (seated) £27.50 Wednesday 22 August 7.30pm Princes Street Gardens (standing) Festival Theatre, Edinburgh £12.50 Tickets New for 2012 Sponsored by £30 £27 £22 £17 £12 Supported by £17.50 for priority entry 2 hours 10 minutes approximately 45 minutes approximately
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Greyfriars Kirk Homayun Sakhi Trio Hebrides Ensemble Tickets and Synergy Vocals £20 Homayun Sakhi Rubab JAMES MACMILLAN WORLD PREMIERE Greyfriars Salar Nader Tabla 1 hour approximately Abbos Kosimov Doyra William Conway Cello and director eif.co.uk/greyfriars
Kabul-born virtuoso Homayun Sakhi is arguably Greyfriars Series is supported by Special Ticket Offer Save £20 Scotland’s premier new-music group, Hebrides Buy for 8 concerts and the 9th is free the greatest living exponent of the Afghan rubab, Ensemble joins forces with Synergy Vocals and The Binks Trust a plucked stringed instrument of great subtlety. renowned bass Brindley Sherratt for the world This is a rare chance to hear the highly expressive premiere of a new hour-long piece, co-commissioned music of Afghanistan, involving thrilling interplay by the Festival, by leading Scottish composer James between the three musicians, building to exciting His Majestys Sagbutts and MacMillan. Based on the story of the Resurrection, conclusions full of swirling melodic colours. Since it was the day of preparation… is a major Cornetts and Concerto Palatino Concerto Caledonia work full of dazzling virtuoso music in which Sherratt A CELEBRATION OF GIOVANNI GABRIELI MUSIC BY TOBIAS HUME portrays the figure of Christ. Friday 17 August 5.45pm
eif.co.uk/homayunsakhi Two of the world’s finest early brass ensembles join One of Scotland’s premier early-music ensembles, Wednesday 22 August 5.45pm forces to reveal the awe-inspiring splendours of Concerto Caledonia has an enviable reputation for Renaissance brass music, exploring the gleaming reviving little-known but important music from the eif.co.uk/hebrides-synergy sounds of Giovanni Gabrieli’s monumental pieces country’s past. Joined by tenor Thomas Walker, Supported by to mark the 400th anniversary of his death. the group explores subtle instrumental gems and Aga Khan Foundation songs by 16th-century Scottish composer, viol Supported through the The virtuoso players of both His Majestys Sagbutts player and soldier Tobias Hume, which display Scottish Government’s and Cornetts and Concerto Palatino ensure an his extraordinarily fertile imagination. Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund authentically resplendent sound. Ricercar Consort 01 MUSIC BY JOHN BLOW AND HENRY PURCELL Wednesday 15 August 5.45pm This concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Philippe Pierlot Bass viol and director eif.co.uk/caledonia Early Music Show at a later date. Robin Blaze Countertenor Alim Qasimov Ensemble Carlos Mena Countertenor Alim Qasimov Voice, daf Monday 13 August 5.45pm Fargana Qasimova Voice, daf Arcangelo and Iestyn Davies Philippe Pierlot and his renowned period-instrument eif.co.uk/sagbutts Rauf Islamov Kamancha MUSIC BY GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Ricercar Consort make a welcome return to the Zaki Valiyev Tar AND NICOLA ANTONIO PORPORA Festival for two concerts of early English music. The Rafael Asgarov Clarinet, balaban first explores poignant songs and odes by Purcell Javidan Nabiyev Naghara Iestyn Davies Countertenor alongside Blow’s Ode on the Death of Henry Purcell. Dalmatica Arcangelo Alim Qasimov has been described as one of the Dialogos Jonathan Cohen Cello and director Monday 20 August 5.45pm world’s greatest vocalists. His performances of Azeri Katarina Livljanic´ Director Stéphanie-Marie Degand Violin eif.co.uk/ricercar1 mugham – the classical music of Azerbaijan – are Kristian Bezuidenhout Organ, harpsichord recognised worldwide for their searing intensity and Kantaduri Mónica Pustilnik Guitar, lute raw emotion. Qasimov shares the stage with his Josˇ ko Caleta Director daughter Fargana, their soaring voices combining in dramatic vocal duets on themes of love and devotion. Exciting young period-instrument ensemble Ricercar Consort 02 Paris-based vocal ensemble Dialogos brings alive Arcangelo makes its Festival debut with the MUSIC BY CHRISTOPHER TYE some of the earliest known music, in performances acclaimed countertenor Iestyn Davies. AND WILLIAM BYRD Thursday 23 August 5.45pm renowned for their purity and spirituality. Dalmatica is a collaboration between the six female singers Handel and Porpora were two great rival composers Philippe Pierlot Bass viol and director eif.co.uk/alimqasimov of Dialogos and Kantaduri, a choir of six traditional in the 18th century, the former supported by King Croatian male cantors. They each explore the George II and the latter by his son, Frederick, Prince extraordinary richness of Dalmatian chant and of Wales. Both composers strove for ever greater For their second concert, Philippe Pierlot and the Supported by religious music since the Middle Ages, in which feats of expression, as displayed in the simmering Ricercar Consort explore uplifting and moving music Aga Khan Foundation Roman Catholic and Byzantine traditions collide, passions of their chamber cantatas performed today. by Byrd and Tye for viol consort, an expressive early creating a glowing sound fresco of colourful, Their extraordinarily taxing vocal parts were designed ensemble that can be considered a predecessor of compelling pieces. to show off the solo singer’s virtuosity and subtlety. the string quartet.
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Untitled-6 52 22/02/2012 15:27 Untitled-6 53 22/02/2012 15:27 54 The Queen’s Hall Series The Queen’s Hall Series 55 The Queen’s Photo Mats Bäcker Borggreve Photo Marco Photo Felix Broede Photo Robert Piwco Photo Robert Piwco Hall Ferrier Centenary Trio Zimmermann Antonio Meneses Cello Celebration Concert Schubert String Trio in B flat D471 Maria João Pires Piano Schoenberg String Trio Series Kitty Whately Mezzo soprano Mozart Divertimento in E flat Schubert Sonata in A minor ‘Arpeggione’ Njabulo Madlala Baritone Brahms Three Intermezzi Op 117 Sir Thomas Allen Baritone Mendelssohn Song without Words in D Op 109 Roger Vignoles Piano Brahms Cello Sonata No 1 in E minor Start your day with an unforgettable musical experience at the Festival’s Praised for its ravishing sound and commanding performances, celebrated and hugely popular Queen’s Hall Series. Immerse yourself Trio Zimmermann was formed in 2007 by violinist Frank Peter in a world of music – from the USA to Russia, from Europe to Australia Songs by Gounod, Debussy, Duparc, Ravel and Brahms, Zimmermann, violist Antoine Tamestit and cellist Christian Poltéra, – and a profusion of styles to excite and delight every taste, from piano and folksongs from Northumbria and South Africa each an internationally acclaimed soloist in his own right. The ensemble Portuguese-born pianist Maria João Pires has the ability to transfix and song recitals to string quartets, and from early opera to jazz guitar. thrilled Festival audiences in 2010 with an all-Beethoven programme. audiences with her performances, combining spellbinding poetry and utter sincerity. She is joined by Brazilian cellist Antonio Meneses, As well as much-loved chamber masterpieces by Mozart, Beethoven, Despite its title, Mozart’s Divertimento in E flat is not light music at all formerly cellist of the renowned Beaux Arts Trio, who is admired for his Schubert and Brahms, there are thrilling discoveries to be made in The legendary contralto Kathleen Ferrier was one of the finest voices – it is one of the towering achievements of chamber music. It is also luminous, refined playing. Together, their elegant interpretations let the French wind quintets, a wide-ranging chamber orchestra programme, Britain has ever produced, achieving world renown and a very special one of Mozart’s noblest works, each instrument playing an equal role beauty of the music they play shine through. and the arresting music of contemporary British composer relationship with the Edinburgh International Festival through her in conveying its warm-hearted intimacy. Thomas Adès. memorable performances in its early years. This thrilling showcase Their programme is one of understated passion, from the lyricism and of vocal talent celebrates her legacy. Schoenberg’s String Trio is a remarkably intense and virtuosic piece, aching melancholy of Schubert’s ‘Arpeggione’ Sonata to the joyful Alongside performances by many of the world’s most respected and Schubert’s single-movement Trio in B flat opens the concert on Song without Words by Mendelssohn. Pires performs three solo-piano established artists, this year’s Queen’s Hall concerts focus on some The Kathleen Ferrier Award was set up to honour outstanding young a generous, easy-going note. intermezzi by Brahms, deeply personal works of tranquillity and of the finest young musicians of today, figures whose acclaimed singers at the start of their careers, and its winners represent the most peacefulness, and the two players come together for the same interpretations have already made a truly global impact. exciting hopes for the opera houses and Lieder platforms of the future. composer’s songful First Cello Sonata, full of rapturous expression. London-born mezzo soprano Kitty Whately, praised for her sweet-toned ‘Individually... (they) are fabulous musicians – but combined they voice and natural charisma, was the 2011 recipient, and South African are explosive’ The Scotsman baritone Njabulo Madlala won in 2010 with his rich, creamy tones and ‘There was totally equal converse, as though only a single musical dramatic characterisation. mind were at work’ The Times The Queen’s Hall Series is supported by This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. They are joined by two masters of the Lieder recital, Sir Thomas Allen Edinburgh International Festival Benefactors and pianist Roger Vignoles, for a wide-ranging programme contrasting the rich Romanticism of Gounod and Brahms with the subtle, evocative impressionism of Debussy, Ravel and Duparc, and also eif.co.uk/queenshall taking in folksongs from Allen’s Northumbrian and Madlala’s South African homelands.
Saturday 11 August 11.00am Supported by Monday 13 August 11.00am Tuesday 14 August 11.00am Supported by The Queen’s Hall Frank Hitchman The Queen’s Hall The Queen’s Hall Donald and Louise MacDonald Tickets Tickets Tickets £29 £26 £21 £17.50 £11 £8 With additional support from £29 £26 £21 £17.50 £11 £8 £29 £26 £21 £17.50 £11 £8 1 hour 45 minutes approximately Ian Smith of 1 hour 45 minutes approximately 1 hour 45 minutes approximately Stornoway Legacy eif.co.uk/ferrier eif.co.uk/zimmermann eif.co.uk/pires-meneses
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Airs and instrumental music from early French opera by Cambert, Lully, Grabu, Charpentier and Rameau Making its Festival debut, Les Vents Français gathers together five Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is one of the most gifted musicians Leonidas Kavakos has been widely praised for his passionate of the world’s top wind players, each one a virtuoso soloist – flautist of his generation, his immaculate performances establishing a rapturous performances combining physicality with an intense intimacy. He Emmanuel Pahud, oboist François Leleux, clarinettist Paul Meyer, atmosphere with their clear-headed, penetrating interpretations. returns to the Festival after a triumphant recital in 2008, when he bassoonist Gilbert Audin and horn player Radovan Vlatkovic´ . He makes a welcome return to the Festival with music by two also had popular success with the London Symphony Orchestra The musicians of Les Arts Florissants are considered to be among the They celebrate French wind music at its elegant, witty best. of the composers most dear to him. under Valery Gergiev, with whom he performs Szymanowski’s Violin world’s greatest interpreters of the sparkling, brightly coloured works of Concerto No 2 in the Usher Hall this year. French Baroque opera, with fresh, sensual performances full of dancing Succinct and delicious pieces by Ibert and Milhaud frame Ravel’s Beethoven’s ‘Waldstein’ Sonata is a tour de force of invention and rhythms and simmering passions. glittering Le tombeau de Couperin. Barber’s bluesy Summer emotion, from the meditative stillness of its slow movement to its Joined by the inspirational Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky, a performer Music contrasts languid charm with lively activity, and the richly triumphant conclusion, while the Piano Sonata in F Opus 54, shows who mixes subtle refinement with breathtaking virtuosity, Kavakos Under conductor Paul Agnew, they bring together some of the genre’s Romantic Quintet in G minor by Paul Taffanel is full of lyricism the composer’s humorous side. Chopin’s exquisite waltzes, full of performs four ravishing chamber masterpieces. most fascinating moments, and also chart a brief history of the period, and opulent harmonies. sophistication, are the ideal vehicles for Andsnes’s lucid, supple playing, from the very first French opera, Robert Cambert’s Pomone of 1671, and the ballades demand the power and commanding technique that Brahms’s dreamy, rain-inspired First Sonata is full of languid melodies through to the imaginative, sensual music of Rameau’s highly virtuosic are his trademark. and graceful tenderness, while Respighi’s seldom-heard Violin Sonata is Les Indes galantes of 1735. On the way, we discover Lully’s first and last This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. a turbulent piece, with passionate climaxes and soaring solo lines. Violin stage works, Cadmus et Hermione and Armide, the French-style opera and piano are in competition in Stravinsky’s fiery Duo concertante, and that Louis Grabu wrote for the English court of Charles II, and the dark ‘His playing was impressively pristine, lucid and supple.’ Janácˇ ek’s folk-inspired Violin Sonata swings restlessly between sunny yet spectacular Médée by Charpentier. The New York Times melodies and episodes of great poignancy.
‘So immaculately assured and yet sounded so spontaneous’ This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Kavakos: ‘playing so good that you could scarcely believe it came from The Guardian a fallible human being.’ Financial Times
Lugansky: ‘rippling brilliance in his artistic armoury’ Daily Express
This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Wednesday 15 August 11.00am Supported by Thursday 16 August 11.00am Supported by Friday 17 August 11.00am Saturday 18 August 11.00am Supported by The Queen’s Hall Mr Hedley G Wright The Queen’s Hall Donald and The Queen’s Hall The Queen’s Hall Dunard Fund Louise MacDonald Tickets Tickets Tickets Tickets £29 £26 £21 £17.50 £11 £8 £29 £26 £21 £17.50 £11 £8 £29 £26 £21 £17.50 £11 £8 £29 £26 £21 £17.50 £11 £8 1 hour 45 minutes approximately 1 hour 45 minutes approximately 1 hour 45 minutes approximately 1 hour 45 minutes approximately
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Untitled-7 56 22/02/2012 15:28 Untitled-7 57 22/02/2012 15:29 58 The Queen’s Hall Series The Queen’s Hall Series 59 Tyler Boye Photo Tyler Photo Sian Trenberth Photo Kathy Panama Borggreve Photo Marco Calder Quartet Rebecca Evans Soprano John Williams Guitar Luca Pisaroni Bass baritone Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ Malcolm Martineau Piano John Etheridge Guitar Justus Zeyen Piano Thomas Adès Arcadiana Andrew Norman ‘... toward sunrise and the prime of light...’ Songs by Purcell, Bellini, Mozart, Bizet, Gounod, Hahn, Songs by Schubert, Rossini, Meyerbeer and Liszt Mendelssohn String Quartet in F minor Op 80 Saint-Saëns, Obradors, Bernstein and Dilys Elwyn-Edwards Two of the world’s greatest guitarists – one the most celebrated classical guitarist of his generation, and the other a luminary of jazz and blues guitar – unite for an eclectic concert fusing jazz, folk, world and classical music. They have collaborated for over a decade, combining their Luca Pisaroni has been hailed as one of the most captivating and The players of the Calder Quartet from Los Angeles are as at ease Hearing Welsh soprano Rebecca Evans perform is an electrifying contrasting styles into a fascinating mix. versatile singers of his generation, with a rich, dark voice that’s also performing with rock musicians Airborne Toxic Event and Andrew WK experience. She brings a warmth and natural charm to her music, startlingly agile. The Venezuelan-born, Italian-educated bass baritone as they are in their incisive interpretations of the Classical repertoire. yet her interpretations display her astonishing technical assurance Both guitarists have refused to recognise orthodox musical boundaries, has been praised for his opera performances worldwide, and today’s and a fierce emotional intensity. as today’s performance demonstrates. Among compositions by John recital appropriately focuses on vivid, opera-inspired songs that are They have collaborated extensively with British composer Thomas Williams and jazz and blues standards from John Etheridge, they play full of drama and passion. Adès, and their lyrical performances of his nostalgic Arcadiana, Her recital ranges from restrained yet vivid songs by Purcell to the dazzling music from across Africa, Bach, and Paul Hart’s witty homage seven exquisite miniatures evoking idyllic memories of places real tongue-in-cheek recipe settings of Bernstein’s La bonne cuisine, to Beethoven, Ludwig’s Horse, written specially for the duo. Schubert’s Three Songs D902 are showpieces that reveal the clear and imagined, have been widely acclaimed. by way of the languid love songs of Bellini’s Sei ariette. Evans also influence of Rossini, and they are followed by a vibrant selection from includes a selection of Mozart’s Lieder and the 1977 Nature Songs Rossini’s Péchés de vieillesse and seldom-heard gems by Meyerbeer. Alongside a rapturous short piece by young US composer Andrew by her compatriot Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, as well as two Spanish sets: ‘Together they made charming music that bridged their different Pisaroni’s Liszt selection includes the beautiful Petrarch Sonnets, Norman and the glowing melodies of Mozart’s ‘Dissonance’ Quartet, Granados’s passionate La maja dolorosa, and folk-inspired songs worlds while allowing scope to display their individual skills.’ which display the composer’s masterful gifts as a dramatist, with they also perform Mendelssohn’s last major work, a hugely impassioned by Obradors. London Evening Standard characteristically virtuosic piano accompaniments delivered by piece full of rage and lamentation, written shortly after the death of the German pianist Justus Zeyen. composer’s beloved sister. Evans is joined by the acclaimed Edinburgh-born pianist Malcolm Martineau, accompanist of choice for a whole generation of This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. renowned Lieder artists. ‘Lithe and handsome, Pisaroni has an attractive stage presence, and ‘a group of four dynamic and wickedly talented musicians’ his singing was mellifluous and expressive.’ San Francisco Chronicle Hollywood Weekly ‘A riveting, note-perfect performance’ Mail on Sunday This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Monday 20 August 11.00am Tuesday 21 August 11.00am Supported by Wednesday 22 August 11.00am Thursday 23 August 11.00am The Queen’s Hall The Queen’s Hall David McLellan The Queen’s Hall The Queen’s Hall
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Untitled-7 58 22/02/2012 15:29 Untitled-7 59 22/02/2012 15:29 60 The Queen’s Hall Series The Queen’s Hall Series 61 Vadim Shults Photo Vadim Photo Javier del Real Photo Thibaut/Naive Records Photo Ben Ealovega Borggreve Photo Marco Daniil Trifonov Piano Anne Schwanewilms Soprano Dietrich Henschel Baritone Francesco Piemontesi Piano Scriabin Piano Sonata No 3 Malcolm Martineau Piano Steven Osborne Piano Mozart Piano Sonata in D K284 Medtner Three Fairy Tales (Skazki) Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien Stravinsky Three Dances from The Firebird (arr. Agosti) Songs by Debussy, Wolf and Strauss Songs by Wolf, Korngold, Martin and Mahler Webern Variations Op 27 Debussy Images, Book 1 Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D845 Chopin Etudes Op 25
German lyric soprano Anne Schwanewilms is one of today’s finest opera German baritone Dietrich Henschel brings his wide experience on the singers, and her imaginative insight, dramatic flair and lustrous tone are opera stage to his dramatic, heartfelt concert performances, in which The enormously gifted young Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi One of the most exciting new names in pianism, young Russian pianist equally apparent in her bewitching song recitals. he truly embodies the emotions of his songs. His welcome return to is one of the piano world’s rising stars, admired for his intimate, Daniil Trifonov spectacularly won two of the world’s toughest piano the Festival is in a programme of rich, passionate late-Romantic song. singing tone and his keen musical integrity. His carefully considered competitions – Israel’s Arthur Rubinstein Competition and Russia’s Joined by Malcolm Martineau, she performs a selection from Hugo interpretations are all the more thrilling for their sudden eruptions of Tchaikovsky Competition – within weeks of each other in 2011, Wolf’s settings of highly charged poems by Eduard Mörike, each one He is joined by the acclaimed Scottish pianist Steven Osborne, praised wild abandon. confirming his glowing reputation as one of his generation’s most a miniature drama of expressive intensity and harmonic sophistication. widely for his dazzling pianism, his characterful, nuanced interpretations outstanding pianists. She also takes on three of Richard Strauss’s joyful Opus 49 songs, and the restrained intensity of his playing. Piemontesi’s gift for theatricality is the ideal match for Schumann’s and the ethereal symbolism of Debussy’s contemplative early effervescent Faschingsschwank aus Wien (‘Carnival Scenes from Trifonov has been praised for his astonishing technical command, Proses lyriques. Alongside poignant settings of Byron and Michelangelo by Wolf, Vienna’), with its vivid scenes of Viennese dance, drama and revelry, his overwhelming energy, and his total absorption in his music. Henschel and Osborne perform evocative songs from both ends of which he precedes with Mozart’s grand D major Sonata. Webern’s He performs pieces by three of his compatriots – Scriabin’s rhapsodic Korngold’s career: four remarkable Lieder written when the composer Variations are terse and taut, and Piemontesi concludes his recital Third Sonata, three of Medtner’s vividly descriptive Fairy Tales, and ‘Schwanewilms and her accompanist rose to majestic heights was just a teenager, and three later songs that draw on his well-loved with the emotional intensity of Schubert’s great Sonata in A minor, Guido Agosti’s dazzling, flamboyant arrangements of Stravinsky. of musicianship’ Opera Today film scores. The powerful Jedermann Monologues by Frank Martin are one of the composer’s most personal creations. Debussy’s Images and Chopin’s Etudes provide an opportunity for among the composer’s most moving creations, dealing with mortality, Trifonov to display his sensitivity and delicacy as well as his supreme faith and redemption. Henschel contrasts them with four of Mahler’s technical skills. vivid folk-poetry settings from Des Knaben Wunderhorn. ‘Clarity of thought is complemented by clarity of touch, incisive intellect by a good dose of fantasy.’ BBC Music Magazine
‘Every note he touched was pure gold... Compelling, radiant, every ‘Dietrich Henschel and pianist Steven Osborne perform with sheer gesture in the music lovingly communicated’ New York Concert Review intelligence and communicative power’ The Daily Telegraph This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Friday 24 August 11.00am Supported by Saturday 25 August 11.00am Monday 27 August 11.00am Tuesday 28 August 11.00am Supported by The Queen’s Hall The Inches Carr Trust The Queen’s Hall The Queen’s Hall The Queen’s Hall Frank Hitchman
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Untitled-7 60 22/02/2012 15:29 Untitled-7 61 22/02/2012 15:29 62 The Queen’s Hall Series The Queen’s Hall Series 63 Photo Paul Henderson-Kelly Photo Lisa-Marie Mazzucco Photo Mitch Jenkins Sims Photo John Ferro Toby Spence Tenor Llyr Williams Piano Australian Emerson String Quartet Julian Milford Piano Liszt Vallée d’Obermann Chamber Orchestra Mozart String Quartet in D K575 Sonetto del Petrarca No 104 Thomas Adès The Four Quarters Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Les jeux d’eaux à la villa d’Este Richard Tognetti Director and violin Beethoven String Quartet in E flat Op 127 Mahler Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Tarantelle di bravura (Venezia e Napoli) Schumann Dichterliebe Piano Sonata in B minor CPE Bach String Symphony in B flat Wq182 No 2 Peteris Vasks Vox amoris Scelsi Anagamin The Queen’s Hall Series concludes with one of America’s finest string Grieg String Quartet in G minor (arr. Tognetti) quartets, famed for its impeccable technique, assured musicality and Internationally renowned British lyric tenor Toby Spence has long been The hypnotically intense performances of pianist Llyr ˆ Williams have dramatic spontaneity. acclaimed in an astonishingly wide range of music, from the Baroque thrilled audiences with their breathtaking power and revelatory insights. through to contemporary works, and admired for the passion and For this concert, he scales the heights of 19th-century piano virtuosity In a wide-ranging programme, the Emerson String Quartet contrasts insights of his powerfully expressive interpretations. in contrasting pieces by one of the greatest ever composers for Acclaimed for its vibrant, stylish delivery, the Australian Chamber two late masterpieces from Mozart and Beethoven with a fresh work the instrument. Orchestra is an ensemble like no other. Its performers stand to play, by one of Britain’s leading composers, Thomas Adès, which the players He opens his recital with Beethoven’s stormy An die ferne Geliebte giving the orchestra the huge sense of energy that defines its elegance premiered only last year. (‘To the Distant Beloved’), a cycle of love songs to a faraway lover that Liszt is famed for his spectacular showpieces that push performers and verve. Violinist Richard Tognetti is the driving force behind the are full of heartfelt longing and inner turmoil. After five striking Lieder to their limits. But his music is equally possessed of a transcendental orchestra and it is his dramatic orchestral arrangement of Grieg’s Beethoven’s Opus 127 Quartet is the first of his so-called ‘late quartets’, from Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Spence concludes with one spirituality, as revealed in the ecstatic Vallée d’Obermann, which conveys heartfelt String Quartet that forms the concert’s climax. in which the composer explores hitherto uncharted depths of intense of the best-loved song cycles in the repertoire: Schumann’s Dichterliebe, a sense of wonder at nature’s grandeur. Les jeux d’eaux à la villa d’Este spirituality. Its music touches on the profoundest emotions, with ‘A Poet’s Love’. A poignant work that follows a journey from passion to is a shimmering evocation of light and water, and the monumental In a typically eclectic programme, the orchestra also reaches back to melodies of great lyricism and ineffable beauty. disillusion as a young writer realises his love is not returned, it contains Sonata in B minor, a piece of startling originality and daring emotional the daring expressivity of CPE Bach’s String Symphony in B flat, and songs of the utmost delicacy and of blazing youthful ardour. scope, is the ideal showpiece for Williams’s astonishing abilities. explores two modern masterworks: the bewitching soundscape of Mozart’s Quartet K575 is a sprightly, glittering piece with a prominent Scelsi’s Anagamin, and Peteris Vasks’s beautifully meditative Vox amoris, cello part written for the Prussian King Wilhelm Friedrich II to play. It is just the piece to showcase Spence’s vivid characterisation, written specially for the ACO with Tognetti as the soloist. The vivid sound pictures of Adès’s The Four Quarters evoke night and its prominent piano part is delivered by his regular recital partner, ‘His performance was near-miraculous’ The Herald time, dawn and daytime in virtuosic music, including an unforgettable British pianist Julian Milford. movement describing a shimmering cascade of raindrops. ‘Richard Tognetti and his group produced playing of fabulous alertness This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. and tight ensemble’ The Guardian ‘a singer of rare genius’ Seen and Heard International ‘one of the most impressive of American string quartets.’ The New York Times This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Wednesday 29 August 11.00am Supported by Thursday 30 August 11.00am Supported by Friday 31 August 11.00am Saturday 1 September 11.00am Supported by The Queen’s Hall John-Paul and The Queen’s Hall Joscelyn Fox The Queen’s Hall The Queen’s Hall The Peter Diamand Trust Joanna Temperley Tickets Tickets Tickets Tickets £29 £26 £21 £17.50 £11 £8 £29 £26 £21 £17.50 £11 £8 £29 £26 £21 £17.50 £11 £8 £29 £26 £21 £17.50 £11 £8 1 hour 45 minutes approximately 1 hour 45 minutes approximately 1 hour 45 minutes approximately 1 hour 45 minutes approximately
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Ideas, cultural assumptions, the art of satire, notions of truce and Speech-to-Text Reported In collaboration with much more are explored, challenged and debated in this high-powered series presented in collaboration with British Council Scotland. All events in the Encounters series are Speech-to-Text Reported. The extraordinary performers and artists in the Festival programme For deaf, deafened and hard-of-hearing audience members, come together with public intellectuals, cultural commentators and a Speech-to-Text Reporter types words as they are spoken which international academics to discuss ideas and themes thrown up by are instantly displayed on screens so that you can follow the talks the Festival performance programme. and discussions.
What Does It Mean to be British? Athletes and Ideals A Very French Connection Choosing Myths and Fairytales
In a provocative keynote address, Robert McCrum, associate editor Louise Martin, Vice Chair of the Organising Committee of Ariane Mnouchkine, director of Les Naufragés du Fol Espoir, is joined by Scots Makar, poet and playwright Liz Lochhead discusses her work of The Observer and author of Globish, argues that it is not a suicide Commonwealth Games Scotland, chairs this discussion on what sport Michel Le Bris, founder of book and film festival Étonnants Voyageurs, and its connections with myth and fairytales from Scottish and European mission to define Britishness in terms of our inheritance and that, means to us today and the values of the classical Greek athlete. With and author Professor Ian Thompson to discuss Jules Verne’s fascination traditions with Robyn Marsack, Director of the Scottish Poetry Library. properly expressed, the definition can be a passport to a renewed and Angus Farquhar, Creative Director of NVA’s Speed of Light, runner and with Scotland. Chaired by Catherine Lockerbie, the panel explores the vigorous participation in global affairs. Having analysed what he calls the writer Robin Harvie and Professor Douglas Cairns, specialist in the cultural bonds between Scotland and France. seven ages of Britishness, McCrum demonstrates how modern Britons, ethics of ancient Greek society at the University of Edinburgh. Tuesday 28 August 2.30pm free at last from the taint of imperialism, are becoming citizens of a new
world of innovation and opportunity. Chaired by Martin Davidson, Chief Saturday 25 August 2.30pm Executive of the British Council. Tuesday 14 August 2.30pm
Representations
Sunday 12 August 2.30pm Myth and Enchantment A Classical World Matthew Lenton, director of Wonderland, joins Professor Michael Lamb, psychologist and specialist in child development from the University Writer Marina Warner, Wagner specialist Derek Watson and Dmitry of Cambridge, and Jean Kilbourne, a feminist speaker internationally The Four Nations of the United Kingdom Richard Jenkyns, Professor of the Classical Tradition at Oxford University, Krymov, director of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (As You Like It), recognised for her work on the image of women in advertising, explores the importance and popularity of the classical world and its examine the roles of myth, fairytale and enchantment in culture and to explore depictions of young women in the arts and media. influence on modern culture. Chaired by Graham Sheffield, Director Arts creativity. Chaired by the Head of Literature for the British Council, Chaired by the BBC’s arts correspondent Razia Iqbal. A distinguished panel of creative writers meets to explore the voices for the British Council. Susie Nicklin. of the four nations of the United Kingdom. Irish playwright Frank McGuinness, Scots poet and novelist Jackie Kay, writer and Wales’ first Friday 31 August 2.30pm National Poet Gwyneth Lewis and English poet Lavinia Greenlaw come Friday 17 August 5.00pm Sunday 26 August 2.30pm together for a series of readings and to discuss the distinctive voices that comprise the United Kingdom today. Chaired by Scottish poet Don Paterson. A Peaceful Place Satire Fresh Voices
Monday 13 August 2.30pm James MacMillan, composer of Clemency, and Ohad Naharin, Artistic Director of Gulliver’s Travels Silviu Purca˘ rete joins Dr Valerie Rumbold of Jen Hadfield, the English poet and artist, who found inspiration and a Director of Batsheva Dance Company, join Sir Adam Roberts, President the University of Birmingham and Martin Rowson, cartoonist and author new voice when she moved to Shetland five years ago, Scottish teen of the British Academy, and Chair Eugene Downes of Culture Ireland, of his own Gulliver story, to discuss the great tradition of satire from fiction writer Jamie Jauncey and Lawrence Rhodes, Artistic Director of to explore ways in which the Olympic Truce can be applied today and which Jonathan Swift’s original tale emerged. Chaired by The Guardian New York’s Juilliard Dance, discuss regeneration and renewal of the arts. how the arts can promote and support peace and better understanding. columnist and feature writer Lucy Mangan. Chaired by Richard Holloway, Chairman of Sistema Scotland.
Saturday 1 September 2.30pm Saturday 18 August 2.30pm Monday 27 August 2.30pm
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Conversations with Artists Reflections on Song Masterclasses Study Events
Sir Thomas Allen Homayun Sakhi Trio Polish Modernism – Szymanowski Major international star, English baritone Sir Thomas Allen Master of the Afghan rubab Homayun and Lutoslawski reflects upon his career as a singer with music writer and Sakhi brings his trio to perform in
BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom Service. Edinburgh for Festival 2012. In this Professor Stephen Downes, Deputy Masterclass the trio presents the Head and Director of Research, School music-making and performance style of Arts, University of Surrey, explores the Saturday 11 August 5.00pm of the Afghan tradition and provides music of Szymanowski and Lutoslawski an insight into its long history. offering unique insights into their work. Camille O’Sullivan Photo RSC/ Ellie Kurttz Emerson String Quartet Photo Lisa-Marie Mazzucco Thursday 16 August 2.30pm Thursday 16 August 10.00am Rebecca Evans and Malcolm Martineau 3 hours approximately with break Tom Cairns Les Vents Français Angelin Preljocaj Camille O’Sullivan Alim Qasimov Ensemble Welsh soprano Rebecca Evans and Malcolm Martineau, Tickets £12 two of the UK’s leading artists of their generation, discuss Director of Opera North’s The The five members of France’s The French choreographer and Singer Camille O’Sullivan talks to the art of singing and accompaniment with music writer One of the foremost mugham singers in Makropulos Case Tom Cairns celebrated wind ensemble discuss artistic director of the Ballet BBC Radio Scotland’s Stephen and BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom Service. Azerbaijan, Alim Qasimov performs with Szymanowski’s Homeland – talks about his new production of their work, fresh from their Queen’s Preljocaj, in conversation with Duffy about interpreting art song his ensemble as part of Festival 2012. Janácˇ ek’s popular 1926 opera to Hall recital, with Richard Morrison, arts journalist Jackie McGlone, and her solo performance in the Europe’s Forgotten Orient In this Masterclass the ensemble BBC Radio Scotland broadcaster chief music critic of The Times. talks about bringing his 2010 Royal Shakespeare Company’s Wednesday 22 August 12 noon presents the complex art of Azerbaijani Jamie MacDougall. creation And then, one thousand production of The Rape of Lucrece. In a panel organised by the Adam mugham, illustrating a thousand years years of peace to the Edinburgh Mickiewicz Institute, contributors of musical tradition with vocal and Wednesday 15 August 2.30pm International Festival. rediscover the orient in Szymanowski’s Sunday 12 August 5.00pm Saturday 25 August 12 noon instrumental performances. music and, by exploring his work from a post-colonial perspective, add a new Saturday 18 August 5.00pm Ian Bostridge with Sir John Tusa dimension to our understanding William Christie Wednesday 22 August 2.30pm Barry McGovern Emerson of this cultural icon. Internationally celebrated English tenor Ian Bostridge William Christie, the American-born String Quartet Hebrides Ensemble discusses his recent collection of essays on music, Barry McGovern, world renowned conductor and musician, and Thursday 16 August 5.00pm A Singer’s Notebook, with Sir John Tusa, cultural for his interpretations of the work founder of the French ensemble and Synergy Vocals The Hub The members of the incomparable commentator and former Managing Director of 1 hour approximately of Samuel Beckett, discusses his Les Arts Florissants, talks to New York City-based string quartet London’s Barbican. Tickets £6 adaptation and solo performance John Kitchen about presenting Members of Scotland’s foremost discuss their music and closing Tickets £6 of Watt, produced by Dublin’s Charpentier’s 1688 opera David contemporary music group, the Queen’s Hall recital series for 1 hour 15 minutes approximately Gate Theatre, with questions from et Jonathas at Festival 2012. Hebrides Ensemble, and vocalists Festival 2012 with composer Tuesday 28 August 5.00pm eif.co.uk/masterclasses theatre specialist Dr Olga Taxidou. from unique voice ensemble John Harris. Personal Mythology Friday 17 August 12 noon Synergy Vocals, discuss presenting Monday 13 August 12 noon a world premiere at Festival 2012 with Richard Morrison, chief music Friday 31 August 5.00pm Leigh Warren Professional Mythic stories may reveal hidden critic of The Times. Toby Spence Dance Class worlds. Psychologist and storyteller Nicola Benedetti Professor Jonathan Young draws on Graham Valentine his work with mythologist Joseph Thursday 23 August 12 noon World-renowned English tenor Toby Spence shares his Advanced contemporary dance Campbell. The day is highly participatory Brilliant young Scottish violinist Scots-born actor Graham thoughts and ideas on singing in the company of music class with one of Australia’s foremost and explores how metaphors can reveal Nicola Benedetti talks about Valentine talks about performing writer and BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom Service. choreographers and dancers. elements of psychological life through in Theater Basel’s Meine faire performing at the Edinburgh storytelling and conversation. International Festival with the Supported by Dame – ein Sprachlabor, the Sunday 26 August 11.00am Swiss company’s reinvention of London Symphony Orchestra and Wednesday 29 August 5.00pm Gordon Fraser Wednesday 29 August 11.00am My Fair Lady, in conversation with Valery Gergiev, in conversation Dance Base with Richard Morrison, chief music Charitable Trust journalist Jackie McGlone. 5 hours approximately with breaks critic of The Times. Tickets £12 £12 1 hour 30 minutes approximately Tickets Wednesday 15 August 12 noon The Hub The Hub Friday 17 August 2.30pm eif.co.uk/danceclass Tickets £6 Tickets £6
1 hour approximately 1 hour approximately The Hub eif.co.uk/conversations eif.co.uk/reflections eif.co.uk/studyevents
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Fringe Prize 2011 Edinburgh University Events A Festival for Everyone
Primer for a Failed Superpower Truce An Accessible Festival for All Festival Online
the TEAM Composer Nigel Osborne, Reid Professor of Music, and Dr Igor Look out for these Festival logos in the brochure. Stiks are joined in an interactive workshop by Dr Olga Taxidou and
broadcaster Professor Jolyon Mitchell to explore the concept of truce
We are writing a love letter to our children about what it was like to grow in the arts. up in the 1980s… We are forming a cover band. Primer for a Failed Audio Described Touch Tour Superpower will (likely) tell the tale of two cities: Washington, DC (then) and Detroit (now). It will (likely) be about a group of characters who were Thursday 30 August 12 noon awesome in their 20s. Speech-to-Text Reported Get connected and follow us on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook, Winner of the 2011 Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize, catch our video channel on YouTube, or listen to our latest podcasts. the TEAM presents a work in progress. Tales from a Turbulent World: can journalism There’s even more on our website – sign up for your regular e-bulletin, really be the first draft of history? Our goal is to make the Festival accessible to as many people as plan your Festival with our online diary, watch performance trailers and possible. In this brochure you will find details of accessible, Audio buy tickets quickly and easily. Regular updates make it easy to stay on Friday 24 August 2.30pm & 5.00pm Described, Speech-to-Text Reported and supertitled performances, top of what’s happening. Visit us at eif.co.uk/interact. BBC Special Correspondent Allan Little gives the Edinburgh University talks and conversations. The venue guide on page 71 has details The Hub Festival lecture, chaired by Vice Principal and Head of Humanities and on venues and for even more information go to eif.co.uk/venues Tickets £6 Social Science Professor Dorothy Miell. People with a disability can buy the seats most suited to them for the lowest (unrestricted view) ticket price for that performance. Festival Chorus 45 minutes approximately Your companion’s ticket will be free. Thursday 30 August 2.30pm eif.co.uk/fringeprize This brochure is available, with an extended venue and access guide, Are you an enthusiastic and talented singer? Would you like the in audio and Braille formats. Simply call +44 (0)131 473 2089 or go to opportunity to perform some of the most exhilarating choral repertoire eif.co.uk/accessguide for digitally accessible versions. And don’t miss with internationally celebrated conductors, orchestras and soloists? Nationhood Today our special ticket prices – see page 70 for details. If so, we invite you to audition to become a member of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus. Find out more about what it’s like to be a member with our Festival backstage video or read the chorus blog Confessions of Broadcaster Sheena McDonald discusses the changing face of a Chorus Member at edintfest.blogspot.com. nationhood today in Scotland with the distinguished line-up of Festival backstage Professor of Constitutional Law Christine Bell, Grierson Professor For more information or to arrange an audition contact of Literature Susan Manning, Professor of Politics Charlie Jeffery [email protected] or call +44 (0)131 473 2027. and Alvin Jackson, Richard Lodge Professor of History. For unique insights into who and what makes a Festival, Festival backstage is a series of short films that take you behind the scenes. Thursday 30 August 5.00pm You can access all areas with these films created together with Standard Life and Edinburgh Napier University. Visit eif.co.uk/festivalbackstage and start exploring.
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How to Book, Ticket Discounts Ticket Prices Venue Access and Information Young People and Students – Ticket prices are listed under each A full access guide with information King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, Lowland Hall, Royal Highland The Hub, Castlehill Access and Tickets Half Price Now! event. Full details of ticket prices about parking, travel to venues 2 Leven Street Centre, Ingliston and areas of the house can be and accessible performances is - Level, ramped or lift access Young people can buy any found at eif.co.uk/tickets. available at eif.co.uk/access - Level access through the Box - Level access to hall. to all public areas. ticket at 50% off on selected where it can be viewed online Office with level access to the - Level and ramped access - Wheelchair spaces in Main Hall. How to Book performances when booking Greyfriars Series or as a Word document. foyer. Platform lift to the stalls. to auditoria. - Induction loop in Hub Tickets opens on Saturday 24 March. Buy for 8 concerts in the series - Wheelchair spaces in the stalls - Accessible toilets. and Main Hall. Under 18s and all students in and get the 9th free. If you would like a copy of the with accessible toilet on stalls level. - Wheelchair spaces available. - Accessible toilet on ground floor Online eif.co.uk full time education. Festival brochure in Braille, on - Sennheiser infrared system with - Bar on ground floor. and another via stair lift. Scottish Opera CD or in large print, including receivers available from main foyer. - Wheelchair drop off zone at - Bar and café on ground floor. Telephone 0131 473 2000 Book all 3 performances for £60 Standby – Half Price a full access guide please email - Bars only accessible by stairs. entrance to the building. - Lift with voice announcement and save 20%. access eif.co.uk or call Overseas +44 (0)131 473 2000 from Wednesday 1 August @ Please ask staff for refreshments - Infrared system with receivers and Braille buttons. +44 (0)131 473 2089. We welcome London Symphony Orchestra before the performance to have available from the cloakroom. calls through Text Relay in the Hub Tickets, The Hub, Castlehill, Edinburgh EH1 2NE 50% off all tickets for senior Book all 4 concerts and save 20%. them brought to you. Ross Theatre, citizens, unemployed people, UK. Textphone users prefix our Greyfriars Kirk, Greyfriars Place Princes Street Gardens Wednesday 14 March number with 18001. Priority booking opens for Festival Friends and Patrons by fax, Young Scot, Equity and The Edinburgh Playhouse, post and online. MU card holders. Virgin Money Fireworks Concert Please note: if you require the use 18-22 Greenside Place - Level access to the Kirk. - Level access to the Gardens – New for 2012 of the loop or Sennheiser systems - Wheelchair spaces in the Kirk and Ross Theatre approximately Saturday 24 March Are you under 26? please check with Hub Tickets - Level access to circle level and accessible toilet. 200 metres from the King’s Public booking opens by telephone, post, in person and online. Tickets for only £8 on the day Due to the popularity of this event when booking. There are some which is on the ground floor, Stables Road entrance. with wheelchair spaces and Traverse Theatre, Please arrive before 8.00pm. Please note: a transaction fee of £1 will be added to bookings by phone, you can now take advantage of a areas in the theatres where the Pay only £8 on the day for accessible toilet on circle level. 10 Cambridge Street - Wheelchair spaces available in post and in person. There is no transaction fee for internet bookings. limited number of special Priority signal is not available. Hub Tickets selected performances, for Entry tickets for the Gardens. staff will ensure that you are seated - Steep stairs only to balcony the Ross Theatre and Princes everyone 26 years old and under. For only an extra £5 you gain in the correct area to receive and stalls levels. - Level access to Box Office Street Gardens. Please tell Hub Tickets Opening Hours Proof of age is required and you access to the gardens a full half the best signal. - Sennheiser infrared system. from Cambridge Street. Hub Tickets if you would like to must buy in person from Hub hour before the gates open. Headsets available from staff. - Lift with voice announcement and use either of these areas when Tickets or at the venue. Artlink offers an escort service - Bar and refreshment kiosk Braille buttons to all levels. For lift you book your tickets. Saturday 24 March – Thursday 19 July As ever, ticket holders for the to help people with disability on ground level. access to Traverse 1, please make - Accessible toilets in the gardens Monday to Saturday 10.00am to 5.00pm Group Bookings available now Ross Theatre don’t need to rush to enjoy the arts. For more yourself known to a member of the and behind the Ross Theatre. information contact them directly Royal Lyceum Theatre, Front of House team. - Please note that the gardens Friday 20 July – Saturday 1 September to secure their spot in the gardens We are delighted to offer great at artlinkedinburgh.co.uk or Grindlay Street - Accessible toilets on ground and become very crowded, which, Monday to Saturday 9.00am to 7.30pm, Sunday 10.00am to 7.30pm and so can take their seats once benefits for bookings of 10 the gates are open. +44 (0)131 229 3555. Assistance lower ground Bar Café levels. combined with the noisy Sunday 2 September 1.00pm to 6.00pm or more tickets. animals are welcome in all of - Lift to all levels and bars. - Infrared hearing enhancement fireworks, may make this event - 10% discount on all Festival - Princes Street Gardens our venues. - Wheelchair spaces in stalls with system. Headsets available unsuitable for assistance animals. tickets for selected performances. (standing) tickets are £12.50 accessible toilet on ground floor. from staff. Buy your tickets at our venues - The opportunity to make flexible and £17.50 with Priority Entry The Queen’s Hall, - Induction loop and Hearing - Wheelchair spaces available. ticket reservations. 85-89 Clerk Street enhancement system available - Dedicated Group Sales Staff - Ross Theatre (seated) tickets from information and shop area. From Monday 26 March you can buy tickets at The Edinburgh - Ramped access. Wheelchair Playhouse, Festival Theatre, The Queen’s Hall, Royal Lyceum Theatre to assist you. £27.50 standard entry. spaces, accessible toilet and Usher Hall, Lothian Road and the Usher Hall. Please call +44 (0)131 473 2089 or - All tickets are on sale from the café/bar on ground floor. email [email protected]. During the Festival, any unsold tickets for Greyfriars Kirk, Traverse opening of booking and are - Gallery only accessible by stairs. - Level access from Grindlay Street. Theatre, King’s Theatre and Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston will go limited to only ten per booking. - Induction loop in stalls and - Lift to all levels. on sale at those venues an hour before the performance. Sennheiser infrared system - Wheelchair spaces and Last Chance to Buy with receivers available from accessible toilets in stalls Virgin Money Fireworks Concert – for ticketing information see Ticket A limited number of gardens the cloakroom. and grand circle. Prices section on this page. tickets will be released for sale - Stalls café/bar fully accessible, only at The Hub in person Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, upper circle bar accessible by lift. Access Information and Discounts from 10.00am on Saturday 13-29 Nicolson Street 1 September. - Ramped access at front and If you are a wheelchair user, have severe mobility difficulties or have Please visit level access at side entrance. visual or hearing impairment you can buy seats/spaces in the area of the eif.co.uk/virginmoneyfireworks - Wheelchair spaces in stalls venue most appropriate to your needs for the lowest (unrestricted view) for most up-to-date information on floor 1. ticket price for that performance. Your companion’s ticket will be free. and advice on transport and - Lift to all levels with accessible Find details of all Audio Described and Touch Tour performances on parking advice for the Virgin Money toilet on floors 1 and 2. pages 11, 15, 19, 28, 32 and 37. Find details of all Speech-to-Text Fireworks Concert. - Sennheiser infrared system Reported events on pages 64, 65 and 67. For more information or with receivers available to claim an access discount please call the Access line from the cloakroom on the +44 (0)131 473 2089 or email [email protected]. To enable us to mezzanine level. determine your requirements and assist you fully we are unable to - Café/bar on ground floor with offer this service online. lift access to other bars.
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Adjacent to Edinburgh International Edinburgh’s Summer Edinburgh Mela Visiting the city… Airport. Access from A8 dual carriageway, Festivals 2012 31 August – 2 September and sign-posted Royal Highland Centre. +44 (0)131 332 2888 Free parking available to Festival event ticket holders. edinburgh-mela.co.uk VisitScotland Edinburgh International Royal Edinburgh For all your accommodation The Hub Film Festival Military Tattoo edinburghfestivals.co.uk and tourism information needs. Edinburgh’s Festival Centre, Royal Mile C3 20 June – 1 July 3 – 25 August The online one-stop shop for +44 (0)845 22 55 121 +44 (0)131 228 4051 +44 (0)131 225 1188 Edinburgh’s 12 major festivals. [email protected] Festival Theatre, Edinburgh edfilmfest.org.uk edintattoo.co.uk The place to go to find news, visitscotland.com Nicolson Street D4 listings and the festivals’ The Queen’s Hall Edinburgh International Edinburgh Festival Fringe iPhone application. Festival Beds Clerk Street E5 Jazz and Blues Festival 3 – 27 August Accommodation in private homes The Edinburgh Playhouse 20 – 29 July Admin: +44 (0)131 226 0026 Official Edinburgh in the city and surrounding area. Greenside Place E1 +44 (0)131 467 5200 (until mid-June) Festivals Map +44 (0)131 225 1101 Royal Lyceum Theatre edinburghjazzfestival.com Box office: +44 (0)131 226 0000 Pick up a copy of the official [email protected] Grindlay Street B3 edfringe.com festivals map, available at most festivalbeds.co.uk Edinburgh Art Festival venues around town during Usher Hall Lothian Road B3 2 August – 2 September Edinburgh International the festivals. Traveline +44 (0)131 226 6558 Book Festival travelinescotland.com Ross Theatre edinburghartfestival.com 11 – 27 August Princes Street Gardens B3 +44 (0)131 718 5666 National Rail Enquiries Traverse Theatre edbookfest.co.uk nationalrail.co.uk Cambridge Street B3 King’s Theatre, Edinburgh Leven Street B5
Getting around… Greyfriars Kirk Greyfriars Place D4
The following Lothian Bus services will take you to Other festivals Festival venues lothianbuses.com International Book Festival Charlotte Square A2 Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Jazz and Blues Festival Box Office The Queen’s Hall The Hub C3 3, 3A, 5, 7, 8, 14, 29, 30, 31, Military Tattoo Office 33, 37, 47, X47, 49 Market Street D2
Festival Fringe Box Office The Edinburgh Playhouse Royal Mile D3 1, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 15A, 16, 19, 22, 25, 26, 34, 44, 49 Tourist Information Centre Princes Street D2 Royal Lyceum Theatre, Usher Hall, Traverse Theatre PH Partner Hotels 1, 10, 11, 15, 15A, 16, 24, 34
The Hub, Dance Base, Greyfriars Kirk Partner Hotels 23, 27, 41, 42, 67 (stop on on map George IV Bridge, 5 minutes walk from The Hub or Dance Base) 1 The Caledonian Hilton (A3) 3 Hotel du Vin, Edinburgh (D4) 5 The Rutland Hotel (A3) King’s Theatre, Edinburgh Princes Street 11 Bristo Place 1 – 3 Rutland Street 10, 11, 15, 15A, 16, 23, 27, 45 Edinburgh EH1 2AB Edinburgh EH1 1EZ Edinburgh EH1 2AE +44 (0)131 222 8888 +44 (0)131 247 4900 +44 (0)131 229 3402 Lowland Hall, Royal Highland thecaledonianedinburgh.com hotelduvin.com/hotels/edinburgh therutlandhotel.com Centre, Ingliston 35, 100 Airport Express 2 The Glasshouse (E1) 4 Macdonald Holyrood Hotel (E3) Look out for exclusive offers drop off at Hilton Hotel stop. 2 Greenside Place 81 Holyrood Road from our Festival partners at Approx 10 minutes walk to Edinburgh EH1 3AA Edinburgh EH8 8AU eif.co.uk/offers Lowland Hall. +44 (0)131 525 8325 +44 (0)131 550 4500 theetoncollection.co.uk/glasshouse macdonaldhotels.co.uk/holyrood
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Venue Thu 9 August Fri 10 August Sat 11 August Sun 12 August Mon 13 August Tue 14 August Wed 15 August Thu 16 August Fri 17 August Sat 18 August Sun 19 August Mon 20 August Tue 21 August
The 11.00am 11.00am 11.00am 11.00am 11.00am 11.00am 11.00am 11.00am 11.00am Queen’s Hall Ferrier Centenary Trio Zimmermann Antonio Meneses, Les Vents Français (p56) Leif Ove Andsnes (p56) Leonidas Kavakos, Les Arts Florissants (p57) Calder Quartet (p58) Rebecca Evans, Celebration Concert (p55) Maria João Pires Nikolai Lugansky (p57) Malcolm Martineau (p58) Clerk Street (p54) (p55) R WS T H WC C
The Hub 5.00pm 2.30pm 12 noon 2.30pm 12 noon 10.00am 12 noon 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Castlehill Reflections on Song: Encounters: Conversations: Encounters: Conversations: Study Day: Polish Conversations: Encounters: Villa+Discurso (p17) Villa+Discurso (p17) Sir Thomas Allen (p67) What Does It Mean Barry McGovern (p66) Athletes and Ideals (p64) Graham Valentine (p66) Modernism – Szymanowski William Christie (p66) Satire (p64) LF WS T H WC C to be British? (p64) and Lutoslawski (p67) Teatro Playa Teatro Playa 2.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 5.00pm 5.00pm Encounters: Conversations: 2.30pm Conversations: Conversations: Conversations: The Four Nations of the Les Vents Français (p66) Masterclass: Homayun Nicola Benedetti (p66) Angelin Preljocaj (p66) Tom Cairns (p66) United Kingdom (p64) Sakhi Trio (p67) 5.00pm 5.00pm Encounters: Study Day: Szymanowski’s A Classical World (p64) Homeland – Europe’s Forgotten Orient (p67)
Greyfriars Kirk 5.45pm 5.45pm 5.45pm 5.45pm 5.45pm 5.45pm 5.45pm Greyfriars Place His Majestys Sagbutts Dalmatica (p52) Concerto Caledonia Arcangelo and Iestyn Homayun Sakhi Trio Ricercar Consort 01 Ricercar Consort 02 and Cornetts and (p52) Davies (p52) (p53) (p53) (p53) L WS WC Concerto Palatino (p52) Dialogos, Kantaduri
Lowland Hall 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.00pm 7.30pm 2.00pm 2.00pm 7.30pm Royal Highland Centre, 2008: Macbeth (p7) 2008: Macbeth (p7) 2008: Macbeth (p7) Meine faire Dame – 2008: Macbeth (p7) 2008: Macbeth (p7) Meine faire Dame – Meine faire Dame – Meine faire Dame – ein Sprachlabor (p8) ein Sprachlabor (p8) ein Sprachlabor (p8) ein Sprachlabor (p8) Ingliston TR Warszawa TR Warszawa TR Warszawa TR Warszawa TR Warszawa Theater Basel Theater Basel Theater Basel Theater Basel L R WS WC C H 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Meine faire Dame – ein Sprachlabor (p8) 2008: Macbeth (p7) 2008: Macbeth (p7) Theater Basel TR Warszawa TR Warszawa
King’s Theatre, 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 2.30pm 8.00pm Edinburgh Waiting for Orestes: Waiting for Orestes: Waiting for Orestes: Gulliver’s Travels (p12) Gulliver’s Travels (p12) Gulliver’s Travels (p12) Gulliver’s Travels (p12) Electra (p10) Electra (p10) Electra (p10) Leven Street Radu Stanca National Radu Stanca National Radu Stanca National Radu Stanca National Suzuki Company of Toga Suzuki Company of Toga Suzuki Company of Toga Theatre of Sibiu, Romania Theatre of Sibiu, Romania Theatre of Sibiu, Romania Theatre of Sibiu, Romania L R WS H WC 8.00pm Gulliver’s Travels (p12) Radu Stanca National Theatre of Sibiu, Romania
Festival Theatre, 7.15pm 7.15pm 7.15pm 7.15pm 7.15pm Edinburgh The Makropulos Case The Makropulos Case David et Jonathas (p34) David et Jonathas (p34) David et Jonathas (p34) (p32) (p32) Nicolson Street Les Arts Florissants Les Arts Florissants Les Arts Florissants Opera North Opera North L R LF WS H WC C
The Edinburgh 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Playhouse Tatyana (p18) Tatyana (p18) Tatyana (p18) Tatyana (p18) And then, one thousand And then, one thousand And then, one thousand years of peace (p20) years of peace (p20) years of peace (p20) Greenside Place Deborah Colker Deborah Colker Deborah Colker Deborah Colker Dance Company Dance Company Dance Company Dance Company Ballet Preljocaj Ballet Preljocaj Ballet Preljocaj L WS H WC C
Royal Lyceum 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Theatre Watt (p11) Watt (p11) Watt (p11) Watt (p11) Uncharted Seas / Uncharted Seas / Timeless (p22) Timeless (p22) Grindlay Street Gate Theatre Dublin Gate Theatre Dublin Gate Theatre Dublin Gate Theatre Dublin Aditi Mangaldas Dance Aditi Mangaldas Dance L LF WS T H WC C Company Company
Usher Hall 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 5.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.00pm Lothian Road A Mass of Life (p39) Alpine Symphony (p40) Deborah Voigt, A Midsummer Night’s London Philharmonic Tristan und Isolde (p38) London Symphony London Symphony London Symphony London Symphony Orchestre des Cleveland Orchestra Brian Zeger (p40) Dream (p41) Orchestra (p41) Orchestra 01 (p42) Orchestra 02 (p42) Orchestra 03 (p43) Orchestra 04 (p43) Champs-Élysées (p44) 01 (p44) L LF WS WC C Royal Scottish National BBC Scottish Symphony Concert performance Orchestra Orchestra Scottish Chamber Vladimir Jurowski Valery Gergiev Valery Gergiev Valery Gergiev Valery Gergiev Philippe Herreweghe Franz Welser-Möst Orchestra Conductor Welsh National Opera Conductor Conductor Conductor Conductor Conductor Conductor Sir Andrew Davis Donald Runnicles Conductor Conductor Sir Roger Norrington Lothar Koenigs Conductor Conductor
Other Venues Every 15 Every 15 Every 15 Every 15 Every 15 Every 15 Every 15 Every 15 Every 15 minutes from minutes from minutes from minutes from minutes from minutes from minutes from minutes from minutes from 9.15pm until 11.00pm 9.15pm until 11.00pm 9.15pm until 11.00pm 9.15pm until 11.00pm 9.15pm until 11.00pm 9.15pm until 11.00pm 9.15pm until 11.00pm 9.15pm until 11.00pm 9.15pm until 11.00pm NVA’s Speed of Light NVA’s Speed of Light NVA’s Speed of Light NVA’s Speed of Light NVA’s Speed of Light NVA’s Speed of Light NVA’s Speed of Light NVA’s Speed of Light NVA’s Speed of Light (p30) (p30) (p30) (p30) (p30) (p30) (p30) (p30) (p30) Arthur’s Seat Arthur’s Seat Arthur’s Seat Arthur’s Seat Arthur’s Seat Arthur’s Seat Arthur’s Seat Arthur’s Seat Arthur’s Seat Holyrood Park Holyrood Park Holyrood Park Holyrood Park Holyrood Park Holyrood Park Holyrood Park Holyrood Park Holyrood Park
Access Facilities Key: L Level access R Ramped access LF Lift SL Stair lift WS Wheelchair spaces in auditorium Events Key: Dance Theatre Opera Music Speed of Light Discussions T Induction loop H Infrared system WC Accessible toilets C Accessible catering/bar
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Venue Wed 22 August Thu 23 August Fri 24 August Sat 25 August Sun 26 August Mon 27 August Tue 28 August Wed 29 August Thu 30 August Fri 31 August Sat 1 September Sun 2 September
The 11.00am 11.00am 11.00am 11.00am 11.00am 11.00am 11.00am 11.00am 11.00am 11.00am Queen’s Hall John Williams, Luca Pisaroni, Daniil Trifonov (p60) Anne Schwanewilms, Dietrich Henschel, Francesco Piemontesi Toby Spence, Llyˆ r Williams (p62) Australian Chamber Emerson String Quartet John Etheridge (p59) Justus Zeyen (p59) Malcolm Martineau (p60) Steven Osborne (p61) (p61) Julian Milford (p62) Orchestra (p63) (p63) Clerk Street R WS T H WC C
The Hub 12 noon 12 noon 2.30pm 12 noon 2.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 11.00am 12 noon 2.30pm 2.30pm Castlehill Reflections on Song: Conversations: Hebrides Primer for a Conversations: Camille Encounters: Encounters: Encounters: Study Day: Personal Truce (p68) Encounters: Encounters: Rebecca Evans and Ensemble and Synergy Failed Superpower O’Sullivan (p66) Myth and Enchantment Fresh Voices (p65) Choosing Myths and Mythology (p67) Representations (p65) A Peaceful Place (p65) LF WS T H WC C Malcolm Martineau (p67) Vocals (p66) (p65) Fairytales (p65) 2.30pm the TEAM (p68) 2.30pm 5.00pm Tales from a 5.00pm 2.30pm 5.00pm 5.00pm Encounters: Reflections on Song: Turbulent World (p68) Conversations: Masterclass: Alim A Very French Reflections on Song: Toby Spence (p67) Emerson String Qasimov Ensemble (p67) Primer for a Connection (p65) Ian Bostridge with 5.00pm Quartet (p66) Failed Superpower Sir John Tusa (p67) Nationhood Today (p68) the TEAM (p68)
Greyfriars Kirk 5.45pm 5.45pm Greyfriars Place Hebrides Ensemble and Alim Qasimov Ensemble Synergy Vocals (p53) (p53) L WS WC
Lowland Hall 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm Royal Highland Centre, Les Naufragés du Fol Les Naufragés du Fol Les Naufragés du Fol Les Naufragés du Fol Les Naufragés du Fol Ingliston Espoir (Aurores) (p9) Espoir (Aurores) (p9) Espoir (Aurores) (p9) Espoir (Aurores) (p9) Espoir (Aurores) (p9) L R WS WC C H Théâtre du Soleil Théâtre du Soleil Théâtre du Soleil Théâtre du Soleil Théâtre du Soleil
King’s Theatre, 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 4.00pm Edinburgh A Midsummer Night’s A Midsummer Night’s A Midsummer Night’s The Lady from the Sea Clemency (p37) Clemency (p37) Dream (As You Like It) Dream (As You Like It) Dream (As You Like It) (p36) Leven Street (p14) (p14) (p14) Scottish Opera Scottish Opera Scottish Opera R L WS H WC Chekhov International Chekhov International Chekhov International 9.00pm Theatre Festival Theatre Festival Theatre Festival The Lady from the Sea (p36) Scottish Opera
Festival Theatre, 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm Edinburgh Gagaku Breathe / Impulse (p23) Breathe / Impulse (p23) Cinderella (p28) Cinderella (p28) Cinderella (p28) Nicolson Street Imperial Court Music and Leigh Warren + Dancers Leigh Warren + Dancers Mariinsky Ballet Mariinsky Ballet Mariinsky Ballet Dance of Japan (p50) L R LF WS H WC C 7.30pm Musicians of the Imperial Cinderella (p28) Household Agency, Tokyo Mariinsky Ballet
The Edinburgh 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Playhouse Helikopter/Eldorado Juilliard Dance (p24) Juilliard Dance (p24) Juilliard Dance (p24) Hora (p26) Hora (p26) Hora (p26) (Sonntags Abschied) (p21) Greenside Place Batsheva Dance Batsheva Dance Batsheva Dance Ballet Preljocaj Company Company Company L WS H WC C
Royal Lyceum 9.00pm 9.00pm 9.00pm 9.00pm 9.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Theatre The Rape of Lucrece The Rape of Lucrece The Rape of Lucrece The Rape of Lucrece The Rape of Lucrece Wonderland (p16) Wonderland (p16) Wonderland (p16) Wonderland (p16) (p15) (p15) (p15) (p15) (p15) Grindlay Street Vanishing Point Vanishing Point Vanishing Point Vanishing Point Royal Shakespeare Royal Shakespeare Royal Shakespeare Royal Shakespeare Royal Shakespeare L LF WS T H WC C Company Company Company Company Company
Usher Hall 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm Lothian Road Cleveland Orchestra European Union Youth Gustav Mahler The Nutcracker (p46) Budapest Festival King Arthur (p38) City of Birmingham The English Concert Philharmonia Orchestra Scottish Chamber Belshazzar’s Feast (p49) 02 (p45) Orchestra (p45) Jugendorchester (p46) Orchestra (p47) Symphony Orchestra David Daniels (p48) (p48) Orchestra (p49) L LF WS WC C BBC Scottish Symphony Concert performance (p47) Royal Scottish National Franz Welser-Möst Gianandrea Noseda Daniele Gatti Orchestra Iván Fischer Harry Bicket Esa-Pekka Salonen Robin Ticciati Orchestra Conductor Conductor Conductor Conductor The Sixteen Andris Nelsons Director and Harpsichord Conductor Conductor Ilan Volkov Conductor David Robertson Conductor Harry Christophers Conductor Conductor
Other Venues Every 15 Every 15 Every 15 Every 15 11.00am Every 15 Every 15 8.00pm Every 15 12 noon 3.00pm minutes from minutes from minutes from minutes from Professional Dance minutes from minutes from In the Locked Room minutes from In the Locked Room In the Locked Room 9.15pm until 11.00pm 9.15pm until 11.00pm 9.15pm until 11.00pm 9.15pm until 11.00pm Class: Leigh Warren (p67) 9.15pm until 11.00pm 9.15pm until 11.00pm & Ghost Patrol (p37) 9.15pm until 11.00pm & Ghost Patrol (p37) & Ghost Patrol (p37) NVA’s Speed of Light NVA’s Speed of Light NVA’s Speed of Light NVA’s Speed of Light NVA’s Speed of Light NVA’s Speed of Light NVA’s Speed of Light (p30) (p30) (p30) (p30) Dance Base (p30) (p30) Scottish Opera (p30) Scottish Opera Scottish Opera Grassmarket Arthur’s Seat Arthur’s Seat Arthur’s Seat Arthur’s Seat LF T WC Arthur’s Seat Arthur’s Seat Traverse Theatre Arthur’s Seat Traverse Theatre Traverse Theatre Holyrood Park Holyrood Park Holyrood Park Holyrood Park Holyrood Park Holyrood Park Cambridge Street Holyrood Park Cambridge Street Cambridge Street Every 15 L LF WS H WC C L LF WS H WC C L LF WS H WC C minutes from 9.15pm until 11.00pm Every 15 Every 15 9.00pm minutes from minutes from NVA’s Speed of Light (p30) Virgin Money Fireworks 9.15pm until 11.00pm 9.15pm until 11.00pm Concert Arthur’s Seat NVA’s Speed of Light (p30) NVA’s Speed of Light (p30) Holyrood Park Scottish Chamber Arthur’s Seat Arthur’s Seat Orchestra Holyrood Park Holyrood Park Princes Street Gardens L WS WC
Access Facilities Key: L Level access R Ramped access LF Lift SL Stair lift WS Wheelchair spaces in auditorium Events Key: Dance Theatre Opera Music Speed of Light Discussions T Induction loop H Infra red system WC Accessible toilets C Accessible catering/bar
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