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4 5 Sponsored by Co-commissioned by Edinburgh Created by Anna Meredith Internationa Festiva, BBC Proms and 59 Productions and 14–18 NOW: WWI Centenary Art Supported by Commissions. In association with The University of Edinburgh 3 Aug 10.30pm | Festiva Square Technoogy Partner Free tickets wi be required Bue-i Theatre Technoogy for the event arena in partnership with mccreate
Fu detais of the event and Commissioned by how to book tickets wi be announced on 25 June Free Outdoor Event Visit eif.co.uk/fiveteegrams Anna Meredith / 59 Productions
The 2018 Internationa Festiva season bursts into ife with a spectacuar free outdoor digita performance ceebrating Scotand’s Year of Young Peope and refecting on the centenary of the end of the Great War.
Inspired by themes of communication incuding teegrams sent by young sodiers in 1918, Five Teegrams weaves a newy commissioned orchestra score, projected digita artworks and ive participation together to consider themes of machines and codes, censorship, propaganda and reconciiation – ideas that resonate powerfuy in contemporary ife.
Working cosey with 59 Productions, Scottish composer Anna Meredith has crafted a new work for orchestra based on materia found in the Imperia War Museum. Meredith is a composer, producer and performer whose genre-defying works span the words of cassica, pop and eectronic music.
Having created three previous epic opening performances, 59 Productions are we known to Internationa Festiva audiences. Over the past decade they have used innovative new technoogies to reimagine concert performance, theatre, opera and exhibitions. Five Teegrams wi be ed by Richard Saney, who was responsibe for the hugey successfu The Harmonium Project at the 2015 Internationa Festiva.
Five Teegrams is an historic partnership that wi see two great festivas working cosey together. The project wi open both the Internationa Festiva outside the Usher Ha on 3 August and the BBC Proms at the Roya Abert Ha on 13 Juy. This joint production marks the first time the Internationa Festiva and the Proms have worked together in this way. With additiona contributions from young peope in Edinburgh and working in partnership with Edinburgh Coege of Art, and as part of 14–18 NOW, the UK's arts programme for the First Word War centenary, Five Teegrams is a truy coaborative event.
6 7 In coaboration with the Nationa Fu detais of Light on the Museum of Scotand’s Rip It Up: Shore and how to book tickets The Story of Scottish Pop wi be announced on 2 May 22 June – 25 November Sponsored by 9–25 Aug | Leith Theatre
Audio Partner The Warehouse
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WITH EDINBURGH GIN
Anna Meredith Southbank Sinfonia / Mogwai / s t a r g a z e performs Boards of Canada / Karine Powart / Django Django / The GRIT Orchestra performs Bothy Cuture and Beyond / Lau presents Lauand / King Creosote / Neu! Reekie! / Hidden Door and many more to be announced...
Light on the Shore brings together major bands, artists and coectives to ceebrate the diversity, virtuosity and originaity of Scottish popuar music.
Crossing genres – from fok to hip hop, eectronica to rock – and spanning decades, Light on the Shore showcases some of those who have buit Scottish music’s internationa reputation as we as those who are remaking it for a new generation. Some of the country's most coaborative innovators incuding Neu! Reekie!, Hidden Door, Cetic Connections and Lau have been invited to shape nights around their own curiosities, whie arger ensembes wi examine semina works in chamber and orchestra settings.
Thirty years ago, the Leith Theatre cosed its doors to the pubic, but thanks to the persistence and passion of oca organisations such as the Leith Theatre Trust and, more recenty, the ingenuity of the Hidden Door festiva, it is re- emerging as an exhiarating contemporary venue for the 21st century.
From 22 June to 25 November, the Nationa Museum of Scotand’s Rip It Up exhibition tes the story of Scottish popuar music. Aongside Light on the Shore, this offers a unique opportunity to expore and enjoy one of the word’s most fertie and varied musica andscapes.
8 9 10 11 5, 7 8 Aug 7.15pm Libretto by Cesare Sterbini based on Michee Angeini Count Amaviva 3hrs approx (one interva) Pierre Beaumarchais’s pay Le Barbier Guiaume Andrieux Figaro Festiva Theatre de Sévie Catherine Trottmann Rosina £28 – £96 fees appy, detais p96 Peter Kámán Bartoo Performed in Itaian with Robert Geadow Don Basiio 8 Aug 7.15pm Engish supertites Juie Pasturaud Berta Louis De Lavignère Fioreo E B Supported by Stéphane Facco Ambriogio James and Morag Anderson Jérémie Rhorer Conductor Laurent Pey Director, set and costume designer Joë Adam Lighting designer I Le Cerce de ’Harmonie
Unikanti Gaë Darchen Chorus director Gioachino Rossini Théâtre des Champs-Eysées / Jérémie Rhorer / Laurent Pey
Deceit and deception; trickery and disguise – and a in the name of ove.
Dashing young Count Amaviva fas desperatey in ove with the ravishing Rosina, ocked away by her echerous guardian Dr Bartoo – who has designs on her himsef, as soon as she comes of age…
Step in Figaro, Amaviva’s expert barber and Sevie’s go-to fixer, with a surefire way for the Count to reach his beoved – even if it means donning a ridicuous disguise…
The Barber of Sevie is a feast of frivoous fun. It’s Rossini’s most perfect comic opera, sparking with wit and energy and propeed aong by an unstoppabe array of instanty memorabe tunes.
Originay seen at Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Eysées, this vibrant new production is conducted by the outstanding young French musica pioneer Jérémie Rhorer, with crisp, incisive paying from his own period-instrument orchestra Le Cerce de ’Harmonie. Renowned internationa opera director Laurent Pey’s eegant staging paces the action directy within the music itsef, amid the curing stacks of Rossini’s musica manuscripts.
Rhorer has captivated Parisian audiences with a reveatory Mozart opera series and made his Internationa Festiva debut in 2016 conducting Mozart’s Così fan tutte. He brings the same freshness, spontaneity and bewitching enthusiasm to Rossini’s deectabe comic masterpiece – as we as his impeccabe sense of drama.
Accaimed French baritone Guiaume Andrieux stars as a sick and scheming Figaro, joined by an eminent cast incuding Michee Angeini as Amaviva and Peter Kámán as Bartoo.
This is a Barber that fizzes with deight, and brings a refreshing immediacy to Rossini’s irresistibe comedy.
12 13 24–26 Aug 7.15pm Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti based Michèe Losier Cenerentoa (Angeina) 3hrs approx (one interva) on the fairy tae Cinderea by Tayor Stayton Don Ramiro Festiva Theatre Chares Perraut Nikoay Borchev Dandini £28 – £96 fees appy, detais p96 Renato Giroami Don Magnifico Performed in Itaian with Cara Meoni Corinda 26 Aug 7.15pm Engish supertites Katherine Aitken Tisbe Simone Aberghini Aidoro E RN Supported by Dunard Fund Stefano Montanari Conductor Stefan Herheim Director James and Morag Anderson Danie Unger, Stefan Herheim Set designers Gioachino Rossini Esther Biaas Costume designer Phoenix Lighting designer Opera de Lyon / Stefano Montanari / Stefan Herheim Aexander Meier-Dörzenbach Dramaturg fettFim Video designers
Orchestra and Chorus Opera de Lyon Barbara Ker Chorus director
Ingenious optica iusions, sumptuous video projections and unstoppabe comedy. Renowned Norwegian director Stefan Herheim’s extraordinary production of Rossini’s effervescent Cinderea opera is stuffed fu of ideas and comic invention. Even conductor Stefano Montanari finds himsef dragged from the pit and swept aong in its breathess action.
Mistreated servant gir Cinderea is abandoned to scrub foors whie her two conceited haf-sisters preen and bicker over their outfits. When dashing Prince Ramiro announces he’s throwing a party, wi she even make it to the ba? And can kindness reay triumph over sefishness?
La Cenerentoa dispenses with fairy godmothers and gass sippers, puts its Prince in disguise and transforms the wicked stepmother into a buffoon of a stepfather. But Rossini aso metamorphoses Perraut’s fairytae into a heart-meting ceebration of forgiveness and reconciiation, tod through some of his zestiest, most sparking music, from seriousy showstopping arias to gavanising orchestra effects.
Conductor Montanari directs an exuberant Lyon Opera de Lyon Orchestra. And among the exceptiona cast of internationa singers are Canadian mezzo soprano Michèe Losier in the ebuient tite roe, and American tenor Tayor Stayton as an athetic Prince Ramiro.
With its visua virtuosity and emotiona sweep, this is a Cenerentoa that charms and captivates from start to finish – a briiant spectace, and one with a big heart.
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Richard Wagner Engebert Humperdinck Haé / Sir Mark Eder RSNO / Sir Andrew Davis
Concert performance Concert performance
Haé Roya Scottish Nationa Orchestra Sir Mark Eder Conductor Sir Andrew Davis Conductor
Simon O’Nei Siegfried NYCoS Nationa Girs Choir Gerhard Siege Mime Christopher Be Chorus Director Iain Paterson The Wanderer Samue Youn Aberich Eizabeth DeShong Hänse Cive Bayey Fafner Laura Wide Grete Anna Larsson Erda Okka von der Damerau Mother Christine Goerke Brünnhide Tomasz Konieczny Father Main Christensson Woodbird Thomas Bondee Witch
Wagner Siegfried Humperdinck Hänse und Grete
Sung in German with Engish supertites Sung in German with Engish supertites
A hero who knows no fear. A sword that cannot The greatest operatic fairy tae of them a - magica, break. A ove so strong it conquers immortaity. dark and bewitching – on the peris of growing up. A story to captivate and deight chidren and to Foowing ast year’s ecstaticay received Die enchant and enthra grown-ups too. Waküre, the third instament of the Internationa Festiva’s four-year Ring cyce eads us ever deeper Based on the Grimm Brothers’ ceebrated tae, into Wagner’s vast mythoogica universe, introducing Engebert Humperdinck’s opuent opera brings us to the greatest operatic hero of them a. together unforgettabe meodies that have a the innocence of chidhood, rich Wagnerian spendours Among an exceptiona internationa cast, revered and dazzing orchestra coours. US soprano Christine Goerke returns as the mighty Vakyrie Brünnhide, and New Zeaand tenor Simon Among the stunning internationa cast are goden- O’Nei – ast year’s Siegmund – takes the tite roe, toned mezzo soprano Eizabeth DeShong and with word-renowned Scottish bass-baritone Iain sparking soprano Laura Wide in the tite roes. Paterson as the mysterious, a-knowing Wanderer. Internationay renowned opera conductor Sir Andrew Davis directs the Roya Scottish Nationa Orchestra.
8 Aug 4.30pm | Usher Ha | 5hrs 30mins approx Two intervas | £20 – £60 fees appy, detais p96 15 Aug 7.30pm | Usher Ha | 2hrs 15mins approx One interva | £15 – £47 fees appy, detais p96 Supported by Dunard Fund
16 17 16–18 Aug 7.30pm Baad opera by John Gay and Johann Robert Carsen Director 18 19 Aug 2.30pm Christoph Pepusch Wiiam Christie Concept 2hrs 30mins approx (one interva) In a new version by Ian Burton and and musica direction King’s Theatre Robert Carsen James Brandiy Set designer £16 – £55 fees appy, detais p96 Petra Reinhardt Costume designer A co-production between Edinburgh Robert Carsen, Peter Van Praet 19 Aug 2.30pm Internationa Festiva, Les Arts Lighting designers H ¤E¥¦ R¹¨ Forissants, Angers-Nantes Opéra, Rebecca Howe Choreographer Supported by Opéra de Rennes, Les Théâtres de Ian Burton Dramaturg © Binks Trust a Vie de Luxembourg, Opéra Roya / Château de Versaies Spectaces, Musicians from Les Arts Forissants Théâtre de Caen; Festiva di Spoeto, Forian Carré Director and Centre Lyrique Cermont-Auvergne, harpsichord P Opéra Roya de Waonie-Liège, Opéra de Reims / La Comédie de Reims CDN, Cast incudes Kate Batter, ª Teatro Coccia, Novara, Teatro Verdi, Oivia Brereton, Robert Burt, Pisa, Cerce des Partenaires des Emiy Dunn, Wayne Fitzsimmons, Bouffes du Nord Beverey Kein, Natasha Leaver, Johann Christoph Pepusch / John Gay Emma Kate Neson, Dominic Owen, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord / Wiiam Christie / Performed in Engish Joceyn Prah, Benjamin Purkiss, with Engish supertites Kraig Thornber, Gavin Wikinson Robert Carsen / Ian Burton
Swarming with highwaymen, thieves, jaiors, pimps and prostitutes, John Gay’s savagey satirica and widy entertaining ‘baad opera’ invites you into a word of greed, crime, poverty, inequaity – and outrageous comedy. Where poiticians and officias are just as corrupt as the owife beow them. And where, if you want to get ahead, a you can do is join them.
Devious gangmaster Peachum is a scammer: he shops criminas to the aw, whie pocketing the proceeds of their crimes himsef. When he discovers that his daughter Poy has secrety married notorious highwayman Macheath, Peachum conspires with his prostitute wife to have Macheath hanged – and make off with his i-gotten money himsef. But they reckoned without Lucy Lockit, daughter of Newgate Prison’s corrupt jaior – hersef jited by Macheath and out for revenge.
This brand new production from Paris’s Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, resident company at the 2018 Internationa Festiva, has been created by two commanding figures across internationa stages.
Director Robert Carsen has worked in many of the word’s most prestigious opera houses and theatres. The production’s origina music direction is by Wiiam Christie, a pioneering figure in eary music and founder of virtuosic Baroque ensembe Les Arts Forissants.
With an eminent internationa cast of actor-singers, pus period musicians from Les Arts Forissants, this brand new, contemporary take on Gay’s work deves deepy into the opera’s pungent word of dark wit and doube standards – a Beggar’s Opera very much for our own turbuent times.
The Beggar's Opera is part of the residency of the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord at the 2018 Internationa Festiva.
18 19 20 21 22–26 Aug 7.30pm Peter Brook, Marie-Héène Estienne 25 Aug 2.30pm Text and stage directors 1hr 30mins approx (no interva) Phiippe Viaatte Lighting designer The Lyceum David Vioi Set eements £17 – £35 fees appy, detais p96 Cast Hiran Abeysekera, 26 Aug 7.30pm Ery Nzaramba, Omar Siva, He P « O Kaieaswari Srinivasan, Donad Sumpter Peter Brook / Marie-Héène Estienne Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
As resident company at the 2018 Internationa Festiva, the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord brings three contrasting yet equay daring works to Edinburgh. Peter Brook is among the most infuentia figures in internationa theatre, and one of the most important artistic figures in the past century. With a spectacuar career that began in the 1940s, he has created chaenging, inspiring works across theatre, opera, cinema and writing, forging productions of daring insight and unstoppabe curiosity.
Brook has made Paris his base since 1971, taking over the historic Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in 1974 and transforming it into a word-renowned centre for pioneering theatrica exporation. It is there that Brook has staged some of his most ceebrated productions.
Somewhere in the word, a man sits aone outside a prison. Who is he, and why is he there? Is it a choice, or a punishment?
Asking profound questions about justice, guit and who gets to decide what they are, The Prisoner brings together a mutinationa cast of accaimed actors from countries incuding Sri Lanka, Rwanda, India and the UK. This is a provocative exporation of some of the most compeing issues of our times.
The Prisoner is co-written and co-directed by Brook and ong-time coaborator Marie-Héène Estienne, drawing on work and research across severa countries and continents.
The Prisoner is part of the residency of the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord at the 2018 Internationa Festiva.
22 23 16–18 Aug 8pm A co-production between Edinburgh Freey adapted after the story by 18 19 Aug 3pm Internationa Festiva; Les Théâtres Marguerite Duras 1hr approx (no interva) de a Vie de Luxembourg; Théâtre de The Lyceum a Vie – Paris; Le Théâtre de Liège; Katie Mitche Director £17 – £35 fees appy, detais p96 MC2:Grenobe; Barbican / London; Aice Birch Adaptation Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam; Liy McLeish Associate director Performed in French with Teatro di Roma-Teatro Nazionae; Grant Gee Video director M D Engish supertites Teatro Stabie di Torino – Teatro Aex Eaes Set and costume Nazionae; Emiia Romagna Teatro designer Supported by Fondazione; Fondazione Teatro Pau Cark Composer Institut français du Royaume-Uni Metastasio – Prato; TANDEM Donato Wharton Sound designer with assistance from scène nationae Ingi Bekk Video designer The Friends' Circe and Eie Thompson Video D L M CIC-Banque Transatantique Suitabe for aduts ony. design coaboration Contains scenes of nudity, sexua and Anthony Doran Lighting designer © pornographic imagery. If you need more information pease contact us. Cast Laetitia Dosch The Woman Marguerite Duras / Katie Mitche / Aice Birch Nick Fetcher The Man Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord Irène Jacob Narrator
Katie Mitche, one of the word’s most infuentia and iconocastic theatre makers, presents her own uncompromising stage adaptation of the provocative novea by Marguerite Duras.
Duras’s 1982 psychoogica thrier focuses on an unnamed man who hires a woman to spend severa weeks with him in a hote by the sea, hoping to experience ove. She may ony visit him at night, and cannot speak to him uness invited to.
This radica reworking reveas the inner andscapes of both characters in a ive cinema and theatre experience. It combines a theatre production performed ive, with a fim generated and edited in rea time, and projected on a arge screen above the set.
British director Katie Mitche has reshaped the cuture of theatre in a body of radica work across Europe since the 1990s. She creates minutey observed, emotionay intense productions that work on the mind ong after they’ve been seen, and has ong expored the intersection between theatre and fim. La Maadie de a Mort is her first production for Paris’s Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, resident company at the 2018 Internationa Festiva, and is produced by an internationa creative team from Britain, France, Iceand and Germany.
Accaimed French fim, teevision and stage actor Laetitia Dosch pays the woman, with British actor Nick Fetcher as the man. Eminent French stage and screen actor Irène Jacob, star of fims incuding Au revoir es enfants and Three Coours: Red, is the narrator. Duras’s novea is adapted by accaimed paywright Aice Birch, recenty auded for her screenpay for the feature fim Lady Macbeth.
La Maadie de a Mort is part of the residency of the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord at the 2018 Internationa Festiva.
24 25 Preview 2 3 Aug 8pm £28 Presented by David Greig, 4–26 Aug 8pm Nationa Theatre of Scotand and Gordon McIntyre (except 7, 14, 16, 21 23 Aug) Edinburgh Internationa Festiva Writers 16 23 Aug 6.30pm 10pm 11, 18, 25 Aug 3pm Contains strong anguage Roxana Sibert 1hr 30mins approx (no interva) Director The Hub M U¯° £32 fees appy, detais p96 15 Aug 8pm 17 Aug 8pm Nationa Theatre of Scotand
Supported by David Greig / Gordon McIntyre / Roxana Sibert Brenda Rennie in memory of her husband Donad Rennie
It’s midsummer weekend in Edinburgh. It’s raining. Two thirtysomethings are sitting in a New Town bar waiting for something to turn up.
David Greig and Gordon McIntyre’s exquisite miniature Midsummer is expanded and enarged with a ive band bringing to ife its heart warming songs and irresistibe humour, in residence at The Hub throughout the Internationa Festiva. First staged in 2008 before touring internationay to phenomena accaim, Midsummer is a streetwise romcom that turns a midife crisis into a dance of freedom, and proves that it’s never too ate for any of us to change.
Bob is a faiing car saesman on the fringes of Edinburgh’s underword. Heena is a high-powered divorce awyer with a taste for other peope’s husbands. She’s out of his eague, and he’s not her type. But with a Tesco’s bag fu of cash, they embark on a ost weekend of bridge-burning, car chases, wedding bust-ups, midnight trysts and hung-over sef-oathing.
This exhiarating, expanded version of Midsummer from the Nationa Theatre of Scotand paces you right at the heart of the action, with a heightened musicaity and joyfu sense of occasion.
Edinburgh-born David Greig is one of Britain’s most respected and admired paywrights, as we as Artistic Director of the city’s Roya Lyceum Theatre. Edinburgh-based Gordon McIntyre is a founding member of Scottish indie band Baboy.
26 27 22–25 Aug 8pm Commissioned by Edinburgh Geoff Sobee Creator 25 26 Aug 3pm Internationa Festiva, Brookyn Steven Dufaa Scenic designer 1hr 30mins approx (no interva) Academy of Music, Arizona State Lee Sunday Evans Director King’s Theatre University – Gammage and New Evis Perkins Origina songs £17 – £35 fees appy, detais p96 Zeaand Festiva David Neumann Choreographer Stefanie Sobee Dramaturg Supported by Christopher Kuh Lighting designer Sir Ewan and Lady Brown Brandon Wocott Sound designer M Karen Young Costume designer Steve Cuiffo Iusion designer Victoria Ross Props designer ª Geoff Sobee
You are cordiay invited to a magica house party on the grandest scae. HOME buids an entire house before your very eyes, and then expores how it turns into a home. With fixtures, fittings, and finay inhabitants. And even – maybe – a itte hep from you.
Actor, creator, magician and iusionist Geoff Sobee won enormous praise for previous shows Fesh and Bood and Fish and Fow in 2010, and the muti-award-winning The Object Lesson in 2014.
His new show, co-commissioned by the Internationa Festiva, is his most dazzing to date, as he throws open the doors and invites you to his party. HOME is a moving meditation on the reentess passage of time, and a breathtaking spectace of iusion, choreography, inexpicabe construction and ive documentary.
As a whoe house miracuousy materiaises around him, Sobee expores how a home shapes the ives of those within it – from the humdrum rituas of showering, cooking and doing the washing, to the momentous events of births, deaths, even crazy parties.
With ive troubadour tunes from Evis Perkins and an ever-expanding crowd of residents past and future, HOME reveas how we’re haunted by previous inhabitants of our homes, and how we in turn wi haunt those who come after us.
Witty and wise, hearty and hiarious, ivey and ife-affirming, HOME is both experimenta and thriingy immediate, fu of wonder and excess. It captures a the drama and emotion of our everyday ives.
28 29 Preview 3 Aug 7.30pm, £12 – £32 Cast Garry Hynes Director 4–12 Aug (except 7 Aug) 7.30pm Garrett Lombard Lucky Francis O'Connor Designer 5 11 Aug 2.30pm Aaron Monaghan Estragon James F Ingas Lighting designer 2hrs 30mins approx (one interva) Rory Noan Pozzo Greg Carke Sound designer The Lyceum Marty Rea Vadamir Nick Winston Movement director £17 – £35 fees appy, detais p96 W«I ¦ F 10 Aug 7.30pm 11 Aug 2.30pm
11 Aug 2.30pm
Supported by ³O Cuture Ireand as part of GB18: Promoting ´ Irish Arts in Britain Samue Beckett Druid / Garry Hynes
One of the most iconic and significant pays of the 20th century, Samue Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is aso one of his funniest, most immediate creations. Drawing endess interpretations, it crackes with deadpan wit and inguistic invention, as we as offering compeing gimpses into our existentia absurdity.
Druid's powerfu staging has been haied as one of the greatest ever productions of Waiting for Godot. Bringing together charm, absurdity, high comedy and touching humanity, it cracks open the pay’s broad humour and reaffirms a of Beckett’s power to shock and surprise us.
Gaway-based Druid are one of the word’s great ensembe theatre companies, and have pioneered the deveopment of Irish theatre, as we as touring internationay to enormous accaim. They have a ong history of visits to the Internationa Festiva, incuding performing a six pays by J. M. Synge in 2005.
Directed by Druid’s Tony award-winning artistic director Garry Hynes, and bringing together a quartet of great Irish actors, this is a Godot that remains authentic to Beckett’s origina whie brighty iuminating a of the pay’s tragedy, comedy and grandeur.
30 31 6–18 Aug 7.30pm (except 12 Aug) Originay produced by Anna Deavere Smith Creator, 11 18 Aug 3pm American Repertory Theater writer and performer 1hr 30mins approx (no interva) Leonard Fogia Director Church Hi Theatre Contains strong anguage Marcus Sheby Composer £32 fees appy, detais p96 and ive music Aisa Sooman Dramaturg 18 Aug 3pm E Rµ H I¶ Anna Deavere Smith
Notes from the Fied is an arresting documentary soo performance that examines what has been dubbed the US ‘schoo-to-prison pipeine’. Drawing on interviews with more than 250 individuas iving and working within the ‘pipeine’, actor Anna Deavere Smith investigates a broken justice system that pushes chidren, predominanty from poorer communities, out of the cassroom – and directy into incarceration.
Deavere Smith shines an uncompromising ight on a ost generation of US youth, on nursery chidren put in handcuffs for throwing tantrums, on high schoo kids arrested for juvenie pranks. And on how they ater contribute to America’s status as the deveoped country with the highest incarceration rate in the word.
Foowing in-depth persona interviews with students, teachers, judges, inmates, poiticians and protesters right across America, Deavere Smith pays 19 separate individuas, using a dazzing command of voices and mannerisms to convey their powerfu stories: of shattered famiies, inescapabe poverty, poice brutaity – and a fragie baance of despair and hope.
Anna Deavere Smith has been caed one of the most provocative theatre artists of our times. She works across fim, teevision and theatre, paying Nationa Security Advisor Nancy McNay in The West Wing, and in 1996 was awarded the MacArthur Feowship ‘genius grant’. She has been creating soo pays based on conversations with peope from a over America for 40 years. Her previous soo theatre works have tacked the 1992 Los Angees riots, the 2015 death of Freddie Gray at the hands of Batimore poice officers, and the kiing of nine African-American church-goers in Chareston that same year.
With ive music from bassist Marcus Sheby, and a restess backdrop of news footage and mobie phone videos, Notes from the Fied is an urgent and inspiring experience. It wi eave you angry, gavanised – and aso fu of hope.
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Unicorn Theatre / 'My crime wasn't doing something. My crime was Phiippe Saire Company A spebinding spectace for chidren from seven being something. Being different in a way everyone years od and their famiies, Hocus Pocus weaves Untited Projects / ese coud see.' A work for famiies together dance, theatre, visua art and bewitching Stewart Laing / ighting to te a wondrous story of how bravery and Born into poverty in an isoated viage in rura confidence can overcome darkness and fear. Phiippe Saire Concept and choreography in Pamea Carter France, a boy grows up amongst hard men and coaboration with Mickaë Henrotay-Deaunay women iving hard and vioent ives. Reentessy A spider’s web; a warrior in chainmai; a mysterious and Phiippe Chosson buied for being gay, this is the story of Eddy’s creature from the deep: a emerge from a magica Based on the book by Édouard Louis Stéphane Vecchione Sound designer strugge to understand who he is, who he might window of ight – to te the story of two young men Edvard Grieg Music Pamea Carter Adaptation become, and his fight to escape. and their dream-ike adventures together. Stewart Laing Director Mickaë Henrotay-Deaunay, Written when he was just 21 and combining With just two dancers, masks, costumes and Ismae Oiartzaba Dancers 21–26 Aug 7pm vivid storyteing with frank refections on bizarre objects, Hocus Pocus conveys a universa 23–26 Aug 2pm sexuaity, cass and power, Édouard Louis’ tae of courage and wisdom, through miracuous For chidren age 7+ 1hr 20mins approx (no interva) accaimed autobiographica nove of hope, ove, stage images and a sumptuous musica score The Studio Contains smoke effects ust and anger is both unfinchingy honest and based around Grieg’s evocative Peer Gynt suites. £22 fees appy, detais p96 Haf price for under 18s hugey entertaining. 10–12 Aug 6pm 11 12 Aug 2pm Hocus Pocus is created by Lausanne-based 14+ (some strong anguage and sexua references) This new stage adaptation is a co-production from 45mins approx (no interva) | The Studio choreographer Phiippe Saire, creator of more London’s Unicorn Theatre, the UK’s eading theatre £22 fees appy, detais p96 than 30 stage works. It is a bewitching creation Haf price for under 18s 25 Aug 2pm for young audiences, and Scotand’s pioneering of sensation and imagination. Untited Projects’ team where it reunites visionary Supported by 26 Aug 2pm Scottish director, designer Stewart Laing and writer Caire and Mark Urquhart Pamea Carter whose Pau Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner was part of the 2015 Internationa Festiva.
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The Internationa Festiva has aways been far more than a coection of performances; it is a gathering of peope, a ceebration of generosity, a gift to the word from the word. Our artists come from more than forty nations and our audiences from over eighty.
Our work is made possibe by a dizzyingy diverse range of oca, nationa and internationa partnerships and coaborations: individua artists, ensembes, producers and co-producers; funders, donors and businesses big and sma; academics and schoo chidren, students and community participants. Whether from Leith or Lagos, a pay a part in the joyous creative energy of this annua ceebration of artistic exceence and innovation in the word’s Festiva City.
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36 37 38 39 16–18 Aug 8pm Commissioned by 14–18 NOW: Akram Khan Director, choreographer 1hr 10mins approx (no interva) WW1 Centenary Art Commissions and performer Festiva Theatre £14 – £35 fees appy, detais p96 A co-production between Edinburgh Mirea Weingarten Set designer Internationa Festiva, Onassis Cutura Michae Hus Lighting designer 18 Aug 8pm Centre – Athens, The Grange Festiva Kimie Nakano Costume designer Hampshire, Sader’s Wes London, New Vincenzo Lamagna Composer Sponsored by Vision Arts Festiva Hong Kong, Théâtre Ruth Litte Dramaturg ÀE Baiie Gifford Investment Managers de a Vie Paris, Les Théâtres de a Vie de Jordan Tannahi Writer Luxembourg, Nationa Arts Centre Ottawa, Shanghai Performing Arts Centre, Centro Nina Harries, Andrew Maddick, B C Cutura de Beém, Festspiehaus St. Pöten, Manjunath, Tamar Osborn, Aditya Grec 2018 Festiva de Barceona, HELLERAU Prakash Musicians – European Center for the Arts Dresden, Akram Khan Company Adeaide Festiva, Festiva Montpeier Danse 2018, Juidans Amsterdam, Canadian Stage Toronto, Romaeuropa Festiva, Torinodanza festiva / Teatro Stabie di Torino – Teatro Nazionae, Lincon Center for the Performing Arts New York, University of Caifornia Berkeey, Danse Danse Montrea, Curve Leicester
A new soo work by Akram Khan, marking the great dancer's fina performances in a fu-ength production.
XENOS means ‘stranger’ or ‘foreigner’. It confronts the tragedy of the First Word War through the eyes of a she-shocked Indian sodier in the trenches, forced to fight in a confict that is not his.
Around 1.5 miion Indian men – mosty peasants from northern India – were mobiised during the War. Forced into service by the obigations of empire, they fought and died in Europe, Africa and the Midde East. Or sometimes returned home, often mutiated and traumatised, to find their stories ater suppressed after rejection of coonia rue – thereby becoming strangers in their own and.
Expressing taes of oss, hope and redemption, XENOS expores our connections with our past and our future, and stares unfinchingy at the beauty and horror of the human condition.
Akram Khan is one of today’s most ceebrated and respected dance artists, a muti- award-winning dancer and choreographer who creates epic storyteing works with a powerfu emotiona impact. Shifting between cassica Indian kathak and contemporary dance, his distinctive movement anguage respects and chaenges both forms.
In shows incuding Kaash, DESH, Gnosis and zero degrees, Khan has worked on stages across the word, coaborating with artists incuding Juiette Binoche, Syvie Guiem, Kyie Minogue, Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormey.
XENOS’s stear internationa creative team incudes accaimed Canadian paywright Jordan Tannahi, and Itaian composer Vincenzo Lamagna, whose speciay written score is performed ive on stage by a muti-nationa quintet of musicians.
40 41 11–13 Aug 7.30pm Co-produced by Studio Wayne Wayne McGregor Concept, director 1hr 20mins approx (no interva) McGregor; Sader’s Wes, London, and choreographer, in coaboration Festiva Theatre UK; Les Théâtres de a Vie de with the dancers £14 – £35 fees appy, detais p96 Luxembourg; Edinburgh Internationa Jin Music Festiva, UK; Festspiehaus St Pöten, Ben Cuen Wiiams Set designer Contains strobe ighting Austria; Caroina Performing Arts and projection at The University of North Caroina Lucy Carter Lighting designer U ¤I¦AÁº Supported by at Chape Hi, USA; Movimentos Aitor Throup Costume designer The University of Edinburgh Festwochen der Autostadt in Uzma Hameed Dramaturgy © Wofsburg, Germany Company Wayne McGregor
What does it mean to write your own ife story?
Traibazing choreographer and director Wayne McGregor has been radicay redefining dance in the modern era with his own company, at The Roya Baet where he has been Resident Choreographer since 2006, and internationay. He has an unmistakabe visua stye that pushes the body to ever greater virtuosity.
For 25 years McGregor has been making choreography that interrogates ife through the experience of the body, moving inteigenty in space and time. His practice is far- reaching and seeks out coaborators from a diverse range of artistic and scientific fieds. Now, he turns his attention to the body as archive, with a work iuminated by the sequencing of his own genome.
Autobiography is a deepy persona show for the ten dancers of Company Wayne McGregor, with body-shaking eectronic beats and immersive ighting, creating dance that is starting in its power and grandeur, yet bewitching in its nuances.
Coaborating with scientists from the Wecome Trust, McGregor has sequenced his own genome, samping the mass of data to determine the order of Autobiography’s spebinding tabeaux. Every performance of Autobiography is unique, an experience for dancers and audience aike that’s never again repeated.
Tacking profound themes of memory, ageing, seep, past and future, Autobiography is mesmerising, muti-ayered and mysteriousy beautifu. It features origina music from former stee mi worker Jin coiding industria sounds and gripping dance rhythms, dynamic set design and projection by Ben Cuen Wiiams, muti-ayered costume design by Aitor Throup compementing the dramaturgy by writer Uzma Hameed, and stage-drenching ighting by award-winning designer Lucy Carter.
42 43 4–6 Aug 8pm A show by Michèe Anne De Mey, 5 Aug 3pm Jaco Van Dormae and 1hr 15mins approx (no interva) Kiss Cry Coective King’s Theatre £14 – £32 fees appy, detais p96 Jaco Van Dormae, Michèe Anne De Mey Directors 6 Aug 8pm Michèe Anne De Mey, Grégory Grosjein ¸L ¤L¶ Choreographers Supported by Thomas Gunzig Texts Fure Grossart Jaco Van Dormae, Juien Lambert Cinematographers Michèe Anne De Mey / Jaco Van Dormae / Kiss Cry Coective
Cod Bood is a remarkabe ive, feature-ength cinema-dance show. It’ make you smie, augh, and gasp in amazement. It’s ike nothing you’ve ever experienced before.
A drive-in movie, a war-ravaged city, a space station. An od-time, Fred and Ginger-stye tap routine. A night at the baet. A conjured using an eaborate miniature fim set, some tiny props – and a cast of dancing hands.
Brusses-born dancer and choreographer Michèe Anne De Mey and Begian fim maker and paywright Jaco Van Dormae coaborate to create a ive fim before your very eyes – a journey through time and space, through the mind of a woman baanced on the brink of ife. Cod Bood is about seven deaths, but it is a ceebration of ife – of the senses, of the fina moments of ight, and of the unexpected memories at the moment of passing.
With three virtuoso dancers using ony their hands, and a crew of fim technicians capturing the intricate choreography, exquisite tiny sets and evocative ighting – a projected on a giant screen above the ive performers – Cod Bood is a poetic exporation of the miniature. It is poised between tragedy and comedy, tenderness and humour, where fingers intertwine then reax, caress each other then depart. Featuring magica visua creations aongside music by Schubert, Rave and Gorecki, David Bowie, Janis Jopin and Nina Simone, this is no ordinary night at the theatre. You may never ook at your hands in the same way again!
44 45 OCD Love Love Chapter 2 Specia offer 9 11 Aug 8pm 10 12 Aug 8pm Buy tickets for both shows at the 55mins approx (no interva) 55mins approx (no interva) same time and save 20% King’s Theatre King’s Theatre £14 – £32 fees appy, detais p96 £14 – £32 fees appy, detais p96
Sharon Eya, Gai Behar Creators Sharon Eya Creator E ¸ºCl Ori Lichtik Music Gai Behar Co-creator Thierry Dreyfus Lighting designer Ori Lichtik Music Odeia Arnod Costume designer Aon Cohen Lighting designer Rebecca Hytting, Gon Biran Costume designers OCD Love and Love Chapter 2 Two shows from L-E-V Dance Company Sharon Eya / Gai Behar
Sharon Eya is one of the most exciting choreographic taents to emerge in recent years. Working with mutimedia designer Gai Behar, she formed L-E-V Dance Company, creating work that is stark, uncompromising and fiercey beautifu, powerfu in its expression of emotion and obsession.
L-E-V Dance Company's Love Cyce is formed of two compementary but standaone shows at this year's Internationa Festiva. The first, OCD Love, is an intensey kinetic dance piece that coides together frenzied passion and obsessive-compusive disorder. It is inspired by sam poet Nei Hiborn’s brutay funny OCD, which describes a woman charmed then exasperated by the inescapabe obsessions of her partner. Pitting a singe femae dancer against a corps of maes, OCD Love dissects her torn sympathies – as she strives for freedom from them yet depends on their contro.
Companion piece Love Chapter 2 is L-E-V Dance Company’s most recent work, premiered in 2017. It is a dark, provocative piece of starting intensity, one that begins where ove breaks down and stares unfinchingy at isoation and oneiness. Using powerfu gestures and captivating imagery, it expores the connections between a of us – and what we are eft with when they break down.
Pushed reentessy forward by the pusating techno beats of DJ Ori Lichtik, these two shows by L-E-V Dance Company are uninhibited, provocative and exhiarating, ike no dance works you’ve seen before. They ask: is there anything more unexpainabe than ove?
46 47 K M I H» Ĺ U ¶O S £ ª Donations from our Benefactors and Ambassadors make a significant impact on the work of the Internationa Festiva. Each and every donation is most gratefuy received and provides us with funds to bring the word’s eading artists to Edinburgh each year. We woud ike to thank a the foowing donors, Akram Khan Company / our Patrons and Friends and those who choose to remain anonymous, for their support in 2018.
Free outdoor dance performance Benefactors Ambassador Pus Brian and Lesey Knox David and Brenda Lamb James and Morag Anderson J Attias Tari and Brian Lang Geoff and Mary Ba George Gwit Nevie Lawther Sir Ewan and Lady Brown Bridget and John Macaski To coincide with Akram Khan’s Xenos, 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First Norman and Christine Lesses Richard and Catherine Burns Katie and James McNei Word War centenary, Edinburgh Internationa Festiva and Théâtre du Châteet in Paris Aan Macfarane Sheia Covin D Miar Chris and Gi Masters wi coaborate on a community project for hundreds of dancers across two cities. Lori A. Martin and Christopher L. Eisgruber Aieen and Stephen Nesbitt Professor Aexander and Jo and Aison Eiot Fiona and Ian Russe Choreographed by Khan, Kadamati draws on themes of identity, migration, connection Dr Eizabeth McCa Smith Lady Eiot and hope and wi mark the end of the First Word War. Duncan and Una McGhie Josceyn Fox Ambassadors Francis Menotti Gavin and Kate Gemme Roger and Angea Aen Sir Ronad and Lady Mier In Edinburgh, Kadamati brings together hundreds of oca dancers in a grand gesture Fure Grossart Constant Barbas and Nichoas van Eek Dr Pau Mis Prof Ludmia Jordanova of unity outside the Paace of Hoyroodhouse. The event wi make up part of the Wiiam and Eizabeth Berry Dr Pau Nissee AM Nia and Caro Lothian Katie Bradford Jerry Ozaniec programme for the Edinburgh Internationa Cuture Summit. Donad and Louise MacDonad Caroa Bronte-Stewart Nick and Juia Parker Anne McFarane Chris Carter and Stuart Donachie Tanya and David Parker Commissioned by 14–18 NOW: WWI Centenary Art Commissions Vivienne and Robin Menzies The Rt Hon Lord Carke George and Lynda Penne Keith and Lee Mier Lady Cousfied Lady Potter AC Brenda Rennie 22 Aug 6.15pm | 6mins approx John Dae Sir Duncan and Dame Susan Rice George Ritchie Paace of Hoyroodhouse | Free and unticketed Ben Diva Andrew and Caroyn Richmond Michae Shipey and Phiip Rudge Dr Ewyn Evans John D Ritchie Keith and Andrea Skeoch Aan Fraser Ross Roberts Sponsored by Jim and Isobe Stretton Mr and Mrs Ted W Frison Francoise Robertson Baiie Gifford Investment Managers Andrew and Becky Swanston Giian Gaines Lord Ross Dr. George Sypert and Dr. Joy Arpin Macom and Avri Gouray Caroine Roxburgh Susie Thomson Anne and John Graham Sir Muir and Lady Russe Caire and Mark Urquhart Ray and Anita Green Mrs C Sekirk Mr Hedey G Wright David and Judith Hakerston Bruce Stephen Zachs-Adam Famiy Kenneth Harrod Ceia F Goodhew Ray and Pauine Hartman Sir David and Lady Waace Shieds and Caro Henderson Anny White Nancy Axerod and A Hoffman Robin and Sheia Wight J Dougas Home Dr Peter J Wiiamson and Dr Jean Horton Ms Margaret Duffy Sir Brian and Lady Ivory Finay and Lynn Wiiamson Aan M Johnston Ruth Woodburn Sir Raymond and Lady Johnstone Mrs Irené M Young
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48 49 50 51 YO³ M I Ç«ANs OÁI ¦ CEr ª A E ÆVa Haydn’s Creation Scottish Chamber Orchestra As part of our 2018 Usher Ha season we are Edward Gardner Conductor deighted to wecome an extraordinary coection of hugey taented young musicians from a over Nationa Youth Choir of Scotand the word. Christopher Be Chorus Director
Visiting orchestras incude the YOA Orchestra Sarah Tynan Soprano of the Americas, the Nationa Youth Orchestra Robert Murray Tenor of Canada, the Coburn Schoo Orchestra, the Nea Davies Bass Nationa Youth Jazz Orchestra of the USA and our own Nationa Youth Orchestra of Scotand. We Haydn The Creation are deighted to host the semi-finas and finas of Eurovision Young Musicians 2018, as 18 young Sung in Engish with Engish supertites sooists compete for one of the word’s most prized tites. The fina wi be broadcast ive from Ceebrate the aunch of the Internationa Festiva’s the Usher Ha on 23 August. 2018 Usher Ha concerts with the exposive excitement of creation itsef. In addition the internationay accaimed Nationa Youth Choir of Scotand is in residency performing Haydn’s dazzing oratorio describes each act of The Creation at the Opening Concert in Haydn’s , creation – from the water and the and to pants, Hanse & Grete Humperdinck’s , a specia matinee birds, animas and finay humans – in vivid, concert conducted by the Choir’s co-founder witty tabeau. Christopher Be and the cosing concert, Maher’s transcendenta Eighth Symphony. British conductor Edward Gardner is a reguar and much-admired Internationa Festiva visitor, revered As part of this ceebration of young taent we for his vibrant, passionate performances. He directs are inviting young peope to come aong to these the exceptiona musicians of Edinburgh’s own Free for six concerts competey free of charge. Scottish Chamber Orchestra. They are joined by Under 18s in 2018 ticket offer for these concerts three of Britain’s most exciting voca sooists, and is supported by The Pirie Rankin Charitabe Trust, the word-renowned young singers of the Nationa see page 97 for detais. Youth Choir of Scotand.
Supported by Léan Scuy EIF Fund 4 Aug 7.30pm | Usher Ha | 2hrs approx One interva | £16 – £49 fees appy, detais p96
This concert wi be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at a future date.
Supported by The Stevenston Charitabe Trust
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Sings Vaughan Wiiams, Carnegie Ha's nationa Gabriea Montero The Ring cyce Whitacre and Tippett Youth Jazz Orchestra pays Tchaikovsky continues
Nationa Youth Choir of Scotand NYO Jazz YOA Orchestra of the Americas Concert performance Christopher Be Conductor Sean Jones Trumpet/Bandeader Caros Migue Prieto Conductor Haé Andrew McTaggart Baritone Dianne Reeves Vocaist Gabriea Montero Piano Sir Mark Eder Conductor
Vaughan Wiiams Five Mystica Songs Showcasing American music for big band from Chávez Symphony No 2 ‘Sinfonía india’ Simon O’Nei Siegfried Tippett Five Negro Spirituas from A Chid Basie and Eington to today's jazz greats Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 Gerhard Siege Mime of Our Time Copand Symphony No 3 Iain Paterson The Wanderer Thea Musgrave On the Underground Set No 2 The Internationa Festiva's spectacuar six-concert Samue Youn Aberich Eric Whitacre When David Heard ceebration of some of the word's finest youth Passionate, famboyant, briianty incisive: YOA Cive Bayey Fafner ensembes continues with one of the gobe's most Orchestra of the Americas is one of the word’s Anna Larsson Erda Quite simpy one of the word’s most exceptiona dynamic youth groups. most remarkabe youth ensembes. Bringing Christine Goerke Brünnhide youth choruses, the Nationa Youth Choir of together the most accompished young musicians Main Christensson Woodbird Scotand brings together the nation’s outstanding The Nationa Youth Jazz Orchestra of the USA – aged 18 to 30 from throughout North and South young singers aged 16 to 25. It is internationay or NYO Jazz – was founded just this year at New America in a singe, powerfu orchestra, it has Wagner Siegfried renowned for the detai, power and passion of York’s Carnegie Ha. It brings together some of toured the word to enormous accaim. its vivid music making, and has a ong history of America’s most outstanding young jazz musicians Sung in German with Engish supertites accaimed performances. aged 16 to 19, in an exuberant ceebration of Exuberant Venezuean pianist Gabriea Montero is a uniquey American musica genre. It’s directed righty one of today’s most admired musicians: she When treacherous Mime convinces his adopted Under co-founder and award-winning conductor by renowned jazz trumpeter and composer joins the Orchestra for the surging passions and son Siegfried to say the dragon Fafner, it’s to stea Christopher Be, NYCoS aunches our spectacuar Sean Jones. unforgettabe meodies of Tchaikovsky’s beoved the a-powerfu Ring for himsef. But Siegfried six-concert ceebration of some of the word’s First Piano Concerto. defies authority – and unwittingy triggers an finest youth ensembes with an impassioned Grammy award-winning jazz vocaist Dianne unstoppabe catacysm. programme – from the ush harmonies of one of Reeves – compared with Sarah Vaughan and Mexican conductor Caros Migue Prieto competes Vaughan Wiiams’s most visionary works to the raw Ea Fitzgerad for her powerfu voice and big the programme with the hope, heroism and joyfu The third instament of the Internationa Festiva’s emotiona impact of Eric Whitacre’s Bibica ament, personaity – joins NYO Jazz for cassic numbers. optimism of Copand’s euphoric Third Symphony Ring cyce introduces the greatest operatic hero of by way of Tippett’s moving prayers for peace. The orchestra expores music across a broad – compete with his Fanfare for the Common Man them a. With an exceptiona internationa cast, Sir genre, from Duke Eington and Count Basie incorporated into its finae. He opens with the Mark Eder directs the Haé in some of Wagner’s The Choir aso brings to ife the witty settings through to hip-hop and RB. scintiating native rhythms of Mexican composer most eectrifying music. of strange and exotic poems from the London Caros Chávez’s rousing Sinfonía india. Underground by renowned Scottish composer Thea Musgrave. 5 Aug 8pm | Usher Ha | 2hrs approx 8 Aug 4.30pm | Usher Ha | 5hrs 30mins approx One interva | £10 – £24 fees appy, detais p96 7 Aug 7.30pm | Usher Ha | 2hrs approx Two intervas | £20 – £60 fees appy, detais p96 One interva | £15 – £24 fees appy, detais p96 Supported by 5 Aug 3pm | Usher Ha | 1hr approx Dunard Fund No interva | £15 fees appy, detais p96 This concert wi be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at a future date. Supported by The Roya Edinburgh Miitary Tattoo
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Debussy’s La mer Music of the and and sea
Nationa Youth Orchestra of Scotand BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Pau Danie Conductor Martyn Brabbins Conductor
Debussy Ibéria Edinburgh Festiva Chorus Lii Bouanger D’un matin de printemps Christopher Be Chorus Director Coes Behind the Lines Debussy La mer Eizabeth Watts Soprano Christopher Matman Baritone The Internationa Festiva’s six-concert ceebration of music and young peope continues with Thea Musgrave Turbuent Landscapes Scotand’s own hugey accompished ensembe, (Scottish premiere) famed throughout its ong history of exceptiona Vaughan Wiiams A Sea Symphony performances for its energy, its insight and its musica exuberance. Vaughan Wiiams’s epic paean to the power and spirituaity of the sea brings together a huge Under the baton of internationay accaimed ensembe for one of his most opuent, captivating British conductor Pau Danie, NYOS expores the creations. Setting mystica verse by Wat Whitman, exquisite oceanic evocations of Debussy’s iconic it’s both a ceebration of the might of the ocean, La mer and the scintiating Spanish coours of and a mystica gimpse into the infinite. his exotic Ibéria. Here we aso ceebrate the 90th birthday of one In between, two rarey heard masterpieces from of Scotand’s most internationay renowned a century ago: Lii Bouanger’s impressionistic composers, Thea Musgrave, with her remarkabe conjuring of a spring morning and a remarkabe, Turbuent Landscapes, a powerfu musica journey poignant work by Scottish composer Ceci Coes, through six vivid and and seascapes by J. M. W. Turner. written whie the composer was stationed in France during the First Word War. 9 Aug 8pm | Usher Ha | 2hrs approx One interva | £15 – £47 fees appy, detais p96 9 Aug 5pm | Usher Ha | 1hr approx No interva | £15 fees appy, detais p96 This concert wi be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at a future date. This concert wi be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at a future date. Supported by Geoff and Mary Ba
With additiona support from The John S Cohen Foundation The University of Edinburgh
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Krystian Zimerman Piano Maher Symphony No.9
Bernstein Symphony No 2 ‘The Age of Anxiety’ Ratte has ong been revered for the searing Dvořák Savonic Dances intensity and insight of his Maher performances. Janáček Sinfonietta For the second in their two-concert Internationa Festiva residency, Ratte directs the London Sir Simon Ratte made his triumphant return to Symphony Orchestra in the composer’s fina the UK in 2017 as Music Director of the London competed symphony. Symphony Orchestra, foowing 15 astonishing years as Artistic Director of the Berin Phiharmonic. Maher’s Ninth strugges with the deepest of questions, staring unfinchingy at death whie Here Ratte and the LSO are joined by the remarkabe grapping tireessy with the meaning of ife. It takes Poish pianist Krystian Zimerman in the first of the istener on a profound journey into the vagaries the Festiva’s ceebrations of Leonard Bernstein’s and ironies of existence, and contains some of centenary, Symphony No 2 ‘The Age of Anxiety’, the composer’s most forward-ooking, visionary which casts its piano sooist as an everyman music – sometimes bitter, sometimes beautifu, searching for spiritua meaning in the modern word. utimatey transcendent.
They contrast Bernstein’s gripping exporations with the foot-tapping Savonic Dances of Dvořák, 11 Aug 7pm | Usher Ha | 1hr 30mins approx No interva | £16 – £49 fees appy, detais p96 and the bazing brass fanfares of Janáček’s vibrant, ife-affirming Sinfonietta.
10 Aug 7.30pm | Usher Ha | 2hrs 10mins approx One interva | £16 – £49 fees appy, detais p96
Supported by Caire and Mark Urquhart
With additiona support from Consuate Genera of the Repubic of Poand in Edinburgh Poish Cutura Institute in London
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Dunedin Consort John Butt Pays Copand Vaughan Wiiams Dunedin Consort John Butt Conductor Nationa Youth Orchestra of Canada Jonathan Darington Conductor Cast incudes Pau Appeby Samson John Estacio New work Sophie Bevan Daia Copand Appaachian Spring Aice Coote Micah Vaughan Wiiams Symphony No 3 Matthew Brook Manoah David Soar Harapha Energy, conviction, breathtaking freshness: Louise Ader An Israeite/Phiistine woman the Nationa Youth Orchestra of Canada brings together the finest musicians aged 16 to 28 from Hande Samson across the vast country to form one of the word’s most accompished youth ensembes. Sung in Engish with Engish supertites
Throughout its haf-century history, NYO Canada Hande’s powerfu oratorio – an opera in a but has toured the US, China, Europe and Japan to name – is one of his greatest dramatic works. It huge accaim, its performances auded for their incudes the much-oved ‘Let the Bright Seraphim’ commitment, focus and sheer exuberance. and ‘Tota Ecipse’, vividy recounting the work’s moving Bibica tragedy. NYO Canada spans the Atantic with music from North America and Britain: the radiant tunefuness This very specia performance from Scotand’s of Copand’s optimistic Appaachian Spring, finest period-instrument ensembe and chorus, capturing the spirit of pioneer America; Vaughan under conductor and schoar John Butt, recreates Wiiams’s achingy beautifu Third Symphony, the spectacuar word premiere of Samson from nostagic and deepy yrica; and the first UK 1743, featuring organ concertos during each interva. performance of a new work from ceebrated Canadian composer John Estacio. Among the outstanding cast are renowned tenor Pau Appeby in the tite roe, briiant soprano Sophie British conductor Jonathan Darington, Music Bevan as the remorsefu Daia, and esteemed Director of Vancouver Opera, directs the concert. Hande interpreter Aice Coote as the Israeite Micah.
14 Aug 8pm | Usher Ha | 1hr 30mins approx 13 Aug 6pm | Usher Ha | 4hrs approx One interva | £10 – £24 fees appy, detais p110 Two intervas | £15 – £47 fees appy, detais p96
This concert wi be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 Supported by at a future date. Mr Hedey G Wright
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Sir Andrew Davis Vasiy Petrenko conducts Robin Ticciati conducts Brahms Cyce conducts the RSNO Strauss and Prokofiev Ó Ö Concert performance Oso Phiharmonic Vasiy Petrenko Conductor Scottish Chamber Orchestra Scottish Chamber Orchestra Roya Scottish Nationa Orchestra Robin Ticciati Conductor Robin Ticciati Conductor Sir Andrew Davis Conductor Lise Davidsen Soprano Brahms Symphony No 1 Brahms Symphony No 2 NYCoS Nationa Girs Choir Richard Strauss Don Juan Brahms Symphony No 3 Brahms Symphony No 4 Christopher Be Chorus Director Richard Strauss Songs Prokofiev Symphony No 6 Reveatory performances, teeming with teing Mercuria, magica, constanty surprising. The Cast incudes detai, inviting you to experience we-oved works Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Robin Ticciati Eizabeth DeShong Hänse Sung in German with Engish supertites as if for the first time. have enjoyed one of the music word’s most joyfuy Laura Wide Grete symbiotic partnerships, admired across the gobe. Deepy moving and profoundy cathartic: the Oso Robin Ticciati has been ceebrated wordwide Humperdinck Hänse und Grete Phiharmonic and charismatic Chief Conductor as Principa Conductor of the Scottish Chamber To mark his very fina concert as the SCO’s Vasiy Petrenko perform Prokofiev’s masterfu Orchestra since 2009, for the fresh, radiant magic Principa Conductor, Ticciati brings his Sung in German with Engish supertites meditation on the tragedy of war, in the centenary of his music making. Internationa Festiva Brahms symphony year of the 1918 Armistice. His darky yrica Sixth cyce to a resounding concusion. The best-oved operatic fairy tae of them a, Symphony is a poignant eegy to the Soviet victims He gives his ast concerts as the SCO’s from internationay renowned opera conductor of the Second Word War. Principa Conductor at the Internationa Festiva Fu of warmth and brimming with optimism, Sir Andrew Davis and the Roya Scottish in a visionary survey of the four towering Brahms’s joyfu Second Symphony is a ceebration Nationa Orchestra. Petrenko and his Oso payers made a huge impact symphonies by Brahms, bringing the incisive of soaring meodic invention, as fiery as it is at their two Internationa Festiva concerts in 2015, carity of a chamber orchestra to these sensitive. His Fourth Symphony, by contrast, is Sibings Hänse and Grete fee the grinding accaimed for their sonic beauty and powerfu compeing symphonic masterpieces. one of his profoundest creations, an astonishing hunger and poverty of their home, escaping to the musica visions. exporation of the cathartic power of music. idyic freedom of the forest – ony to discover it’s In the first of two concerts, Ticciati contrasts a pace of darkness and danger, and of terrifying Richard Strauss’s exuberant Don Juan is a vivid the grandeur of the First Symphony’s dramatic supernatura forces. musica portrait of the inveterate womaniser that journey from darkness to ight with the richy 19 Aug 7.45pm | Usher Ha | 1hr 40mins approx One interva | £15 – £47 fees appy, detais p96 ends with a due to the death. Romantic passions of Brahms’s deepy persona Humperdinck’s sweeping score bends Wagnerian Third Symphony. Supported by opuence with dazzing energy and excitement, in Captivating young Norwegian soprano Lise Donad and Louise MacDonad an opera with profound resonances for chidren Davidsen – winner of Pácido Domingo’s ceebrated and grown-ups aike. Operaia contest in 2015 – sings exquisite orchestra 18 Aug 7.45pm | Usher Ha | 1hr 40mins approx songs by Strauss incuding Cäciie and Wiegenied. One interva | £15 – £47 fees appy, detais p96 Among the fine internationa cast are rich-toned Supported by mezzo soprano Eizabeth DeShong and sparking Donad and Louise MacDonad soprano Laura Wide in the touching tite roes. 16 Aug 7.30pm | Usher Ha | 2hrs approx One interva | £15 – £47 fees appy, detais p96
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Pays Debussy, Conducted by Rave Stravinsky Stéphane Denève
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Coburn Orchestra Mirga Gražinytė-Tya Conductor Stéphane Denève Conductor
Edinburgh Festiva Chorus Simone Porter Vioin Christopher Be Chorus Director Esa-Pekka Saonen Nyx Stravinsky Funera Song Barber Vioin Concerto Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Debussy Préude à ’après-midi d’un faune Rave Daphnis et Choé Exceptiona emerging musicians from esteemed Los Angees Coburn Conservatory of Music form Sensuous, sumptuous and fu of dazzing coour. the Coburn Orchestra, one of the word’s most Beguiing baet scores by Debussy and Rave vibrant youth ensembes. With extensive touring bookend the City of Birmingham Symphony and recording to its name, its performances Orchestra’s vibrant concert under accaimed are bod and daring, fu of finesse and Music Director Mirga Gražinytė-Tya, making fiery famboyance. her Internationa Festiva debut. Concuding the Internationa Festiva's six-concert Debussy’s bewitching Préude à ’après-midi d’un ceebration of music and young peope, eminent faune tes of hedonistic daydreams and sensua French conductor Stéphane Denève, ceebrated indoence. Rave’s avish Daphnis et Choé – for his coourfu, sensua music making, directs the featuring the Edinburgh Festiva Chorus – paints Coburn payers in Rachmaninov’s kaeidoscopic vivid scenes of nymphs, pirates and euphoric Symphonic Dances, muscuar music of immense dances in one of music’s most opuent creations. power and fantasy.
To start is the brooding power of Stravinsky’s They are joined by the remarkabe young US sonorous Funera Song, aongside the bracing vioinist Simone Porter, hersef a former Coburn austerity of his miniature Symphony for the student, for the goden yricism and bazing fidde massed forces of 23 wind and brass payers. fireworks of Barber’s tender Vioin Concerto. Denève opens the concert with Esa-Pekka Saonen’s dazzing, dream-ike evocation of 17 Aug 8pm | Usher Ha | 1hr 45mins approx the Greek goddess of the night. One interva | £15 – £47 fees appy, detais p96
Supported by 20 Aug 7.30pm | Usher Ha | 1hr 45mins approx Dunard Fund One interva | £10 – £24 fees appy, detais p96
Sponsored by Supported by Capita Document Soutions Dunard Fund
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Jakub Hrůša conducts the Pierre-Laurent Aimard Experience the cassica music stars of tomorrow – 18 of the most exciting young performers from right across Europe. A competing for one of the word’s most prized Bamberger Symphoniker performs Messiaen competition tites: Eurovision Young Musicians 2018. For its 19th edition, the biennia Eurovision Young Musicians contest makes its very first visit to Scotand, presented by the Edinburgh Internationa Festiva, the European Broadcasting Union, BBC Scotand, Bamberger Symphoniker Scottish Chamber Orchestra BBC Radio 3 and broadcast onine at BBC Arts Digita. Jakub Hrůša Conductor Matthias Pintscher Conductor With previous winners incuding such eminent figures as Juian Rachin, Nataie Cein, Edinburgh Festiva Chorus Pierre-Laurent Aimard Piano Isabee van Keuen and Juia Fischer – and a jury made up of outstanding musicians Christopher Be Chorus Director from throughout the continent – Eurovision Young Musicians is one of the most Messiaen Des canyons aux étoies … respected music competitions. Kateřina Kněžíková Soprano Eisabeth Kuman Mezzo soprano An epic hymn to the wonders of the natura word. Pave Černoch Tenor A cosmic journey from the depths of the Earth to Jan Martiník Bass the stars, heaven – and beyond. The Semi-finas
Dvořák Requiem Messiaen’s mystica ceebration of the 18 exceptiona young musicians from across Europe wi compete for one of six paces breathtaking natura marves of Utah – its immense in the Eurovision Young Musicians 2018 fina. Over six concerts audiences have the One of cassica music’s greatest chora epics, from canyons, the sivery songs of its birds, the rust-red opportunity to enjoy word-cass young musicians in the intimate surroundings of the one of the word’s most exciting young conductors. of its rocks and the azure bue of its vast skies – is Festiva Theatre's Studio. an awe-inspiring experience for any istener. It’s an 18 19 Aug 2pm, 4pm, 6pm | The Studio | each semi-fina wi ast 1hr approx | £8 Czech-born Jakub Hrůša has been praised ecstatic ceebration of creation, conveyed in music wordwide for his passion, theatricaity and of kaeidoscopic coour and transcendenta power. The semi-finas wi be broadcast ive on BBC Radio 3 and onine at BBC Arts Digita. raw energy, and he has an innate passion for the music of his homeand. He is Chief Conductor of Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard – Internationa the Bamberger Symphoniker, is aso Principa Guest Festiva Artist in Residence – is a former student Competition Fina Conductor of London’s Phiharmonia Orchestra of Messiaen and his wife, pianist Yvonne Loriod, and a former Music Director of Gyndebourne and there’s no more authoritative interpreter of BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Touring Opera. Messiaen’s visionary creations. Thomas Dausgaard Conductor
Dvořák’s monumenta Requiem is a deepy He joins Edinburgh’s own Scottish Chamber The Competition Fina wi be broadcast across Europe from the Usher Ha with the invoving ament for the dead, shot through with Orchestra and respected conductor Matthias winner chosen by a jury that wi incude Sir James McMian and Marin Asop. Each of the composer’s unmistakabe rich meodies, Pintscher for this overwheming work of praise, the six finaists wi perform a concerto movement with the BBC Scottish Symphony dramatic fair and bright orchestra coours. wonder and serene contempation. conducted by Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard.
23 Aug 7pm | Usher Ha | 2hrs approx 21 Aug 8pm | Usher Ha | 1hr 45mins approx 22 Aug 7.30pm | Usher Ha | 1hr 30mins approx One interva | £10 – £24 fees appy, detais p96 No interva | £15 – £47 fees appy, detais p96 No interva | £25 fees appy, detais p96
The fina wi be teevised on BBC 2 Scotand and throughout Europe ater this evening, Supported by and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 24th August. Susie Thomson
Supported by Prof Ludmia Jordanova
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Marin Asop conducts Schumann, Stravinsky, Gershwin and ceebrates Leonard Bernstein's 100th Anniversary
Thibaudet performs Gershwin A Bernstein ceebration
Batimore Symphony Orchestra Batimore Symphony Orchestra Marin Asop Conductor Marin Asop Conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet Piano Nicoa Benedetti Vioin
Stravinsky The Firebird Suite (1919) Berio, John Corigiano John Wiiams Gershwin Piano Concerto Bernstein Birthday Bouquet Schumann Symphony No 2 Bernstein Serenade Bernstein Symphonic Dances from Driven, demanding, briianty energetic, US West Side Story conductor Marin Asop creates performances Bernstein Three Dance Episodes from that baze with conviction. She is aso famousy On the Town a protégée of the great composer, conductor and pianist Leonard Bernstein. Join us to ceebrate the unfettered musica genius of Leonard Bernstein with some of his most iconic, As part of the Internationa Festiva’s centenary captivating music, 100 years to the day since the ceebrations of Bernstein’s arger-than-ife birth of the great composer, conductor, pianist genius, Asop brings together three pieces and educator. cosey associated with the great man. Outstanding Scottish vioinist Nicoa Benedetti is Witty, famboyant French pianist Jean-Yves the sooist in Bernstein’s deepy yrica Serenade, Thibaudet is the sooist in the riffs and romps of a moving meditation on the power of ove. Gershwin’s breezy Piano Concerto. Stravinsky’s The Firebird is a sumptuous fairytae of gittering Aongside witty birthday tributes to Bernstein from coour and tremendous power. The concert coses Berio, Corigiano and Wiiams, Marin Asop concudes with the restess vigour of Schumann’s profoundy the concert with unforgettabe meodies – incuding searching Symphony No 2. ‘Maria’, ‘Somewhere’, ‘New York, New York’ and more – from two of Bernstein’s greatest musicas, West Side Story and On the Town. 24 Aug 7.30pm | Usher Ha | 2hrs approx One interva | £15– £47 fees appy, detais p96 25 Aug 7.45pm | Usher Ha | 1hr 45mins approx Supported by One interva | £15– £47 fees appy, detais p96 Dunard Fund Supported by Sponsored by Dunard Fund Arup
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Edinburgh Festiva Chorus The Chorus recruits new members every autumn so if you are tempted to be a part of NYCoS Nationa Girs Choir it keep an eye open for the opportunities through the website and join our emai ist. Christopher Be Chorus Director
Founded over 50 years ago the Chorus is a rich and vaued part of the Internationa Lise Lindstrom Soprano Festiva. It has been ed for 11 years by Christopher Be as Chorus Director and this Ida Fak Winand Soprano Festiva concert marks his farewe as its eader. He wi be greaty missed but the Chorus Hanna Husáhr Soprano wi remain a gorious and ife affirming way to take part in the Internationa Festiva. Karen Cargi Ato Marie-Nicoe Lemieux Ato Edinburgh Festiva Chorus scores are supported by Risk Charitabe Fund Simon O’Nei Tenor Christopher Matman Baritone eif.co.uk/chorus Shenyang Bass baritone
Maher Symphony No 8
Sung in German with Engish supertites
‘A vision of the whoe universe ringing and resounding’: that’s how Gustav Maher described his coossa Eighth Symphony. And the immense forces it requires have understandaby earnt it the nickname ‘Symphony of a Thousand’.
Combining a stirring hymn to the creator with a rapturous vision of heaven from the egend of Faust, this is perhaps the grandest symphony of them a, at once euphoric and intensey spiritua.
British conductor Danie Harding, Music Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, enthraed Internationa Festiva isteners with his Maher Nine in 2016. A renowned Maherian, he returns with the composer’s most visionary creation.
Join an eminent roster of internationa soo singers, aongside the chora might of the Edinburgh Festiva Chorus, for one of music’s most transcendenta experiences.
26 Aug 7.30pm | Usher Ha | 1hr 30mins approx No interva | £15 – £47 fees appy, detais p96
Supported by The Pirie Rankin Charitabe Trust
70 71 27 Aug 9pm Pease note that there are specia Scottish Chamber Orchestra 1hr 10mins approx ticket saes arrangements for this event. See p96 for further detais. Cark Runde Conductor Ross Theatre (seated) £34 Visit eif.co.uk/virginmoneyfireworks Bernstein Seection Top Path Centre (seated) £34 for up-to-the-minute news, features Host The Panets: Mars, Saturn, Priority entry Princes Street and advice on how to make the best Uranus, Venus, Jupiter V³I ¯ Onº Gardens (standing) £20 of your evening at the Virgin Money Princes Street Gardens Fireworks Concert. (standing) £15.50 fees appy, detais p96 I ãR ¿¨ Sponsored by ª CE
Be dazzed by the breathtaking pyrotechnics. Be transported by the joyfu music. A against the backdrop of one of the word’s most iconic andmarks.
The spectacuar Virgin Money Fireworks Concert brings together unforgettabe orchestra cassics from Edinburgh’s own Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and awe- inspiring fireworks, speciay choreographed by internationa fireworks artists Pyrovision to enhance your musica experience – a set against the magnificent, historic backdrop of Edinburgh Caste.
Join the city of Edinburgh for this joyous ceebration of summer festivas, inspirationa music and breathtaking fireworks – marking the respendent concusion to the 2018 Edinburgh Internationa Festiva.
Conducted by Cark Runde, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra ceebrates the centenary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein with a speciay chosen seection of his foot-tapping, famboyant music – with very specia guest artists.
After the interva, join the Orchestra for a mind-expanding journey into deepest space, with music from Gustav Host’s visionary The Panets – from the overwheming power of ‘Mars’ to the eerie beauty of ‘Venus’; from the seething energy of ‘Saturn’ to the majestic grandeur of ‘Jupiter’. A accompanied by a jaw-dropping dispay of fireworks from the Edinburgh Caste ramparts.
Over 400,000 fireworks aunched from Edinburgh’s imposing Caste make this one of the biggest fireworks concerts in the word. Around a quarter of a miion peope gather across the city and beyond to share in this annua grand Internationa Festiva finae.
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With the Academy Pay Haydn, Bartók of Ancient Music and Zeminsky
Academy of Ancient Music Dover Quartet Richard Egarr Director / Harpsichord Nicoa Benedetti Vioin Haydn String Quartet in F minor Op 20 No 5 Bartók String Quartet No 2 Vivadi Vioin Concerto in D ‘I grosso mogu’ Zeminsky String Quartet No 2 Vivadi Harpsichord Concerto in A RV780 Teemann Vioin Concerto in A ‘The Frogs’ Winner of the prestigious Banff Internationa String Teemann Concerto in C for four vioins Quartet Competition in 2013 – among numerous Teemann Aster Overture-Suite internationa prizes – the Dover Quartet is one of Vivadi ‘Dresden’ Concerto for vioin in F today’s most exciting young string ensembes.
A rousing, smie-inducing concert of wit and Based in Phiadephia, they’ve been auded for their theatricaity courtesy of Scottish vioin superstar deep musica insights – and for an astonishing Nicoa Benedetti and the Academy of Ancient maturity that beies their years. They’re charismatic Music, one of the word’s most revered period and compeing – no wonder they’re considered performance ensembes, under charismatic one of the finest quartets of the moment. Music Director Richard Egarr. For their Internationa Festiva debut, the Dover As admired for her briiant Baroque paying as she payers embark on an intense emotiona journey of is in more recent concertos, Benedetti deivers surging passions. Foowing the power and nobiity the wit and gypsy abandon of Vivadi’s ‘I grosso of Haydn’s profound F minor Quartet, Op 20 No 5, mogu’ Concerto, aongside his sumptuous F major they bring together the sonic beauties of Bartók’s ‘Dresden’ Concerto and the amusing musica fok-inspired Second Quartet with the turbuent croakings of Teemann’s A major Concerto. richness of Zeminsky’s restess Second Quartet.
Egarr directs Teemann’s musica depiction of Aster Lake near Hamburg – compete with 6 Aug 11am | The Queen’s Ha | 1hr 50mins approx One interva | £11 – £34 fees appy, detais p96 cannon fire, echoes, birds, animas and merry-
making peasants – and is sooist in Vivadi’s This concert wi be broadcast ive on BBC Radio 3. energetic A major Harpsichord Concerto. Supported by Nia and Caro Lothian 4 Aug 11am | The Queen’s Ha | 1hr 45mins approx One interva | £11 – £34 fees appy, detais p96
This concert wi be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 7 August.
Supported by Gavin and Kate Gemme
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Beethoven’s Pay Schumann, Songs by Schubert Wof Diabei Variations Rave Prokofiev Iker Arcayürek Tenor Simon Lepper Piano Piotr Anderszewski Piano Viktoria Muova Vioin Katia Labèque Piano Songs by Schubert and Wof Bach Preudes and Fugues in C, A fat major and D sharp minor from The We-Tempered Cavier, Book 2 Prokofiev Sonata in D for soo vioin Op 115 Winner of 2016’s Internationa Lieder Competition Bach Engish Suite No 3 in G minor Schumann Vioin Sonata No 1 in Stuttgart, Iker Arcayürek has been compared Beethoven Diabei Variations Takemitsu Distance de fée to Ian Bostridge, Christoph Prégardien and Nicoai Arvo Pärt Fratres Gedda for his voca richness and carity. Poet, pioneer, perfectionist: every recita from Rave Vioin Sonata in G renowned Poish pianist Piotr Anderszewski is an Born in Istanbu and raised in Vienna, he’s won unforgettabe event, providing commanding new Charismatic Russian-born vioinist Viktoria Muova enormous internationa praise for his goden tenor insights and even perhaps chaenging your very is a word star in cassica music, admired as voice, his astonishing voca freshness, and his reationship with music. much for her pioneering performances as for disarming mix of power and vunerabiity. her astonishing versatiity. Her recitas combine He makes a wecome return to the Internationa searching inteigence with eectrifying virtuosity. For his Internationa Festiva debut recita, Festiva with one of the greatest, grandest Arcayürek is joined by reguar piano partner monuments of the piano repertoire: Beethoven’s Muova is joined by the briiant French pianist Simon Lepper, himsef renowned for his powerfu, Diabei Variations. Taking a seemingy innocuous Katia Labèque for a typicay ecectic recita, rich sensitive pianism, in a rich, dramatic coection of theme as its starting point, Beethoven’s mighty in opuent meody. songs by Wof and Schubert. creation takes you on a gripping emotiona journey through humour, drama, beauty and Together they trave from the impusive freshness Together, they take in works incuding the miniature thriing virtuosity – a visionary work of endessy of Schumann’s goriousy tunefu First Vioin Sonata dramas of Wof’s passionate Peregrina and eectrifying invention. to the exquisite beauty of Rave’s jazz- and bues- compeing Der Feuerreiter, aongside Schubert’s tinged Vioin Sonata, by way of Prokofiev’s easy- poignant Gesänge des Harfners and meanchoy Beforehand, Anderszewski brings together going Soo Sonata, the mesmerising serenity of Schäfers Kageied. a coection of bracing keyboard music by Bach: Arvo Pärt, and the sumptuous, Debussyan three captivating preudes and fugues from yricism of Takemitsu. The We-Tempered Cavier, and the expansive 9 Aug 11am | The Queen’s Ha | 1hr 40mins approx exporations of the Third Engish Suite. One interva | £11 – £34 fees appy, detais p96 8 Aug 11am | The Queen’s Ha | 1hr 40mins approx One interva | £11 – £34 fees appy, detais p96 This concert wi be broadcast ive on BBC Radio 3. 7 Aug 11am | The Queen’s Ha | 2hrs approx One interva | £11 – £34 fees appy, detais p96 This concert wi be broadcast ive on BBC Radio 3.
Supported by Josceyn Fox
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Rich favours from Bohemia and Hungary Pays Chopin Pay Beethoven, Chopin Mendessohn Rachmaninov 1 2 © Ronad Brautigam Fortepiano Jean-Guihen Queyras Ceo Takács Quartet Takács Quartet Aexander Menikov Piano Marc-André Hamein Piano Marc-André Hamein Piano Mendessohn Rondo capriccioso Op 14 Chopin Scherzo No 2 in B fat minor Op 31 Beethoven Ceo Sonata in D Op 102 No 2 Mozart String Quartet in D K575 Mozart String Quartet in B fat K589 Chopin Nocturnes Op 27 Chopin Ceo Sonata Dvořák String Quartet in F Op 96 ‘The American’ Dvořák String Quartet in E fat Op 51 Mendessohn Variations sérieuses Op 54 Rachmaninov Ceo Sonata Dohnányi Piano Quintet No 1 Dohnányi Piano Quintet No 2 Mendessohn Songs without words Op 19 Chopin Barcaroe Op 60 Both respected internationa sooists in their own The gorious, goden meodies of Dvořák’s ‘The Dazzing dexterity, bristing power; poise and Chopin Berceuse Op 57 rights, French ceist Jean-Guihen Queyras and American’ Quartet, understandaby one of the eegance: the Takács Quartet deivers vivid, Chopin Poonaise-Fantasy Op 61 Russian pianist Aexander Menikov are aso a we- composer’s most cherished works, provide the compeing performances fu of potent emotion. estabished musica partnership and a much- centrepiece for the first of two compementary Breathtaking virtuosity; astonishing carity; admired one. They’ve performed and recorded Internationa Festiva concerts from the word- In the second of their two compementary dazzing new insights. Beethoven’s compete music for ceo and piano renowned Takács Quartet. Internationa Festiva recitas, they induge in the to enormous accaim, their passionate paying rich Bohemian coours of Dvořák’s E fat Quartet, Ronad Brautigam is one of the word’s most and perceptive insights a natura match. Ceebrated for their passionate intensity and Op 51 – often named the ‘Savonic’ for its whiring exciting payers of historica keyboards. He’s searing virtuosity, and drawing strongy on their rhythms and its gutsy fok spirit. famed for his exceptiona performances of Haydn, It’s Beethoven that opens their rich Internationa Hungarian heritage, they’re joined by ong-time Mozart and Beethoven – and for the bracing new Festiva recita: the D major Ceo Sonata, Op 102 coaborator, powerfu Canadian pianist Marc- Aongside the enigmatic beauty and wit of Mozart’s perspectives he unveis on we-oved music, using No 2, is a visionary ate work, as compeing as André Hamein, in two programmes fu of the songfu B fat Quartet, K589, the Takács payers instruments from the composers’ own times. it is intimate. They compete their sumptuous rich musica favours of centra Europe. are joined by eminent Canadian pianist – and concert with two achingy Romantic ceo ong-term coaborator – Marc-André Hamein For his Internationa Festiva recita, Brautigam sonatas, aso from ate in their composers’ Dohnányi’s Brahms-inspired First Piano Quintet is in Dohnányi’s Second Piano Quintet. Inspired by shines his searching spotight on two ater careers: Chopin’s tender work, and Rachmaninov’s music of ush Romanticism and restess emotion, Brahms and Schumann, this is urgent, voatie composers – Mendessohn and Chopin. From remarkaby intense piece, which brings ceo whie Mozart’s subime D major Quartet, K575, music of immense emotiona concentration. Mendessohn’s fiery Rondo capriccioso and and piano together in an equa partnership of opens the concert with its genia yricism. sparking Variations sérieuses to Chopin’s famboyance and virtuosity. enormousy powerfu Poonaise-Fantasy, this 11 Aug 11am | The Queen’s Ha | 1hr 50mins approx is a recita to stimuate, captivate, and offer 10 Aug 11am | The Queen’s Ha | 1hr 50mins approx One interva | £11 – £34 fees appy, detais p96 arrestingy fresh visions. 14 Aug 11am | The Queen’s Ha | 1hr 50mins approx One interva | £11 – £34 fees appy, detais p96 One interva | £11 – £34 fees appy, detais p96
This concert wi be broadcast ive on BBC Radio 3. This concert wi be broadcast ive on BBC Radio 3. 13 Aug 11am | The Queen’s Ha | 1hr 50mins approx One interva | £11 – £34 fees appy, detais p96
This concert wi be broadcast ive on BBC Radio 3.
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Cardiff Singer of the Word Sonatas by Mozart winner in recita Robert Levin Fortepiano
Catriona Morison Mezzo soprano Mozart Piano Piece in C major Simon Lepper Piano [Fragment, competed by Robert Levin] Mozart Four Preudes K284a Songs by Brahms, Schumann and Maher Mozart Sonata in B fat K333 Mozart Sonata in E fat K282/189g Winner of 2017’s BBC Cardiff Singer of the Word Mozart Overture to ‘The Abduction from competition – the first ever British winner of the Seragio’ the word-renowned contest – Edinburgh-born Mozart Sonata in C K330 Catriona Morison is a major singing taent, with a natura dramatic fair, a siky voca tone and Keyboard pioneer, schoar, exuberant showman: a sophisticated musica inteigence. US musician Robert Levin is one of the word’s most respected authorities on eary keyboard Experience Morison’s hugey characterfu singing music, famed for his astonishing insights, and for in her Internationa Festiva debut recita, for which the breathtaking freedom and spontaneity of his she’s joined by the fine British pianist Simon Lepper. paying. He can aow you to hear we-oved music in an entirey new way, mixing dazzing erudition After a rich coection of songs by Brahms – with briiant virtuosity. incuding the intense An die Nachtiga and poignant charm Meine Liebe ist grün – Morison and Lepper For his typicay thought-provoking a-Mozart perform the heartrending settings of poems by Mary, recita, Levin performs four iconic keyboard Queen of Scots, in Schumann’s Gedichte der Königin sonatas – the bravura B fat Sonata K333; the Maria Stuart. They cose their recita with Maher’s gracefu E fat Sonata K282 and the yrica C major powerfuy evocative Rückert Lieder, and the avish Sonata K330. He intersperses these exquisite opuence of Korngod’s Fünf Lieder Op 38. sonatas with esser-known keyboard works by Mozart that act as bridges between them – even 15 Aug 11am | The Queen’s Ha | 1hr 50mins approx incuding a Mozart-stye preude improvised One interva | £11 – £34 fees appy, detais p96 by himsef.
This concert wi be broadcast ive on BBC Radio 3. 16 Aug 11am | The Queen’s Ha | 1hr 40mins approx Supported by One interva | £11 – £34 fees appy, detais p96 Jim and Isobe Stretton This concert wi be broadcast ive on BBC Radio 3.
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Pave Haas Quartet James Ehnes Vioin Steven Osborne Piano Schubert String Quartet No 13 in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ Brahms Vioin Sonata No 3 Shostakovich String Quartet No 7 Prokofiev Vioin Sonata No 1 Rave String Quartet Debussy Vioin Sonata Prokofiev Five Meodies One of the word’s most exciting string quartets, Rave Tzigane, rapsodie de concert Czech foursome the Pave Haas Quartet more than ives up to that description, paying with Two of today’s most respected sooists, Canadian a remarkabe combination of poished refinement vioinist James Ehnes and Scottish pianist Steven and starting spontaneity. Osborne form a goriousy natura partnership, sharing unforced virtuosity, searching insights The Quartet brings together extraordinary passion, and a wonderfuy generous musicianship. commanding insights and an amost orchestra richness – the fu-booded sound of Bohemia From the turbuent but richy meodic Brahms combined with a searing dramatic intensity. Third Vioin Sonata through to the gypsy abandon of Rave’s spectacuar showpiece Tzigane, The effortess meodies of Schubert’s deepy yrica their Internationa Festiva recita is fu of yet introspective ‘Rosamunde’ Quartet open their dramatic contrasts. wide-ranging Internationa Festiva recita, which cimaxes with the exquisite radiance of Rave’s In between, they take in Debussy’s sensua yet coourfu, witty Quartet. sharpy defined Vioin Sonata, and the unfinching introspection of Prokofiev’s intense First In between, the remarkaby concentrated Vioin Sonata. expression of Shostakovich’s brief but brooding Seventh Quartet. 23 Aug 11am | The Queen’s Ha | 1hr 50mins approx One interva | £11 – £34 fees appy, detais p96 22 Aug 11am | The Queen’s Ha | 1hr 45mins approx One interva | £11 – £34 fees appy, detais p96 This concert wi be broadcast ive on BBC Radio 3.
This concert wi be broadcast ive on BBC Radio 3. Supported by Donad and Louise MacDonad
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Messiaen’s Visions de ’Amen Bernstein Copand
Pierre-Laurent Aimard Piano Hebrides Ensembe Tamara Stefanovich Piano J'Nai Bridges Mezzo soprano Brahms Sonata for Two Pianos Jacques Imbraio Baritone Messiaen Visions de ’Amen James Baiieu Piano Phiip Moore Piano Anges, saints, songbirds; orbiting panets, stars, peaing bes. Messiaen’s kaeidoscopic Visions Bernstein Piano Trio de ’Amen for two pianos is an epic exporation Copand Appaachian Spring of faith, a ceebration of creation, and a tribute Copand Piano Variations to the wonders of human ove. Bernstein Arias and Barcaroes
Cracking with exposive energy and rhapsodic Launching the Internationa Festiva’s day-ong passions, it is mystica, spiritua and batanty Leonard Bernstein centenary ceebrations – on sensua – and fu of unforgettabe, emotion- what woud have been his 100th birthday itsef – sweing meody. And it pushes its payers right one of Scotand’s greatest chamber ensembes to their imits, both physica and emotiona. brings together four compeing works by the great US composer, conductor and educator and his Internationa Festiva artist in residence Pierre- mentor, Aaron Copand. Laurent Aimard, former Messiaen protégé and word-renowned pianist, is joined by Tamara The Hebrides Ensembe has been assembing some Stefanovich for the cosmic grandeur of this of the UK’s finest chamber musicians for gripping ecstatic music. performances for more than 25 years. Bringing The Queen’s Ha concerts to a respendent cose, By way of compete contrast, they open the they contrast the energy and sophistication of concert with the richy Romantic emotions of Bernstein’s youthfu Piano Trio with the intensey Brahms’s sedom heard Sonata for Two Pianos, autobiographica ove songs of his yrica Arias and which he ater transformed into his Piano Barcaroes, his ast major piece. Quintet Op 34. They compete the concert with the pungent power of Copand’s rugged Piano Variations, and 24 Aug 11am | The Queen’s Ha | 2hrs approx the easy-going meodiousness of his touching One interva | £11 – £34 fees appy, detais p96 tribute to pioneer America, Appaachian Spring.
This concert wi be broadcast ive on BBC Radio 3. 25 Aug 11am | The Queen’s Ha | 1hr 45mins approx One interva | £11 – £34 fees appy, detais p96
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Michigan-born, now Reykjavík-based, US singer- Fear the Future songwriter John Grant creates music that can be agonisingy sad, painfuy funny – or often both, Fearsomey inteigent, criticay adored, St. Vincent but never ess than breathtaking in its emotiona – aka Annie Cark – is one of the most ceebrated compexity. He has set two decades of his own musicians on the panet, geefuy coiding defiant persona dramas – fueed by drink, drugs and sex – experimentaism with joyfuy accessibe pop in her to music, in moving confessiona baads and ironic uncompromisingy persona songs. 80s-stye synth creations, bending eectronica, dance beats, warm acoustics and ush harmonies Across six much-admired studio abums, she has to support his sy, witty yrics. created pioneering art-pop that is rich, nuanced and constanty surprising, winning a Grammy award in Once a member of aternative rock band The Czars, 2015 for her eponymous fifth abum, among a string Grant has been a soo artist since 2006. He has of other prizes and nominations. She has payed coaborated with Tracy Thorn, Amanda Pamer and with The Poyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens, Ebow, performed in a ceebration of Scott Waker and coaborated with David Byrne and Swans. at the BBC Proms, and toured the UK to enormous accaim with the Roya Northern Sinfonia. Renowned for her famboyant stage shows – she famousy once performed in a toiet costume – With his rich, creamy baritone, and his savagey St. Vincent brings her transgressive pop on a rare barbed humour, he is one of the most provocative visit to Scotand as part of her Fear the Future tour. and origina songwriters in today’s pop, creating This is music fu of drama, depth and sonic invention songs to make you augh, gasp, think, perhaps – and it’s ots of fun. even shed a tear.
As part of his UK tour, he brings his captivating 26 Aug 8pm | Edinburgh Payhouse music and payfu verba erudition to a very £25-£40 fees appy, detais p96 specia Internationa Festiva concert at Edinburgh’s Payhouse.
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A workshop presentation An afternoon of debate, discussion and performance The Edinburgh Internationa Cuture Summit – the first of its kind in the word – is exporing the history and the reaity of power in the a biennia event which attracted deegations from over 40 nations to its third edition and discussion arts. Performers, producers, activists and cutura in 2016. The fourth Internationa Cuture Summit takes pace from 22–24 August. workers come together to investigate where power Pay written by Sir David Lindsay reay ies and what needs to be done to ensure The Summit incudes presentations, discussions and workshops with prominent artists, genuine diversity and equaity of expression. This thinkers and cutura infuencers, creating a space for the word’s Cuture Ministers to Joe Dougas Director exporation of one of the most hoty debated issues consider the importance of cuture and how it can aid and deveop their own peope Ian Brown Dramaturg of our time is hosted by the Internationa Festiva in and nations. coaboration with Edinburgh’s Fringe, Book, Art and 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of Tyrone Fim Festivas, aongside the actors' union Equity This year the Summit focuses around three areas of debate: Cuture and Webeing, Guthrie’s egendary production of Sir David and the Musicians’ Union. Cuture and Investment and Cuture in a Networked Word with a diverse and infuentia Lindsay’s semina 16th-century pay Ane Satyre ist of speakers ined up from across the word. of The Thrie Estaitis which was performed at 10 Aug 1pm | 4hrs approx | The Hub Assemby Ha as part of the 1948 Internationa Free ticket required Five partners, who a strongy beieve in the power and benefit of cuture and have Festiva. Since then numerous directors and writers a goba reach and perspective, organise the Summit – British Counci, Edinburgh have taken different approaches to this bod and, Supported by Edinburgh Trade Union Counci Internationa Festiva, Scottish Government, The Scottish Pariament, and the at times, contentious work. and Scottish trade unions. UK Government.
Performed ony twice to royaty and commoners To foow announcements of speakers in the coming months, find out how to attend, in Fife and Edinburgh in the 1550s, Ane Satyre «TA «N or to participate in the conversation on socia media visit: cuturesummit.com is a breathtaking work that chaenges the @CutureSummit #edcuturesummit corruption of the church, aristocracy, business and government through its tae of a young king F ¨IÎ OEr tempted away from the path of wisdom by vice and debauchery. Deveoping Artistic Director Joe Dougas and Ian Brown have interrogated the pay and considered how it might Entrepreneurship best be presented for a contemporary audience. Aong with a company of actors they wi prepare Are you an ambitious producer, programmer, creative a presentation of rehearsed sections of the pay artist and/or performer? Deveop your artistic and a discussion about the nature of this unique entrepreneurship skis in the context of a major arts work and its pace in 21st-century theatre. festiva, through this course offered jointy between the Roya Conservatoire of Scotand, the University of Co-presented by the Edinburgh Internationa Festiva, Edinburgh, and the Edinburgh Internationa Festiva. Nationa Theatre of Scotand and the Roya Lyceum Over five days you wi have the opportunity to Theatre Edinburgh. immerse yoursef in Internationa Festiva events, engage with inspiring artists, and refect criticay 7 Aug 1pm 5pm | 2hrs approx | no interva on your own and others’ artistic practice. The Studio | £10, fees appy, detais p96
17 – 21 Aug | Evoution House, Edinburgh Coege of Art, University of Edinburgh | Fee £520
Appication deadine Friday 1 Juy 2018 at 12noon. To appy direct go to rcs.ac.uk/ifeong-earning/ife/
90 91 ºO³ ÁP A T¼ «TA «N F ¨IÎ © Virgin Money Schoos Concert Affordabe Ticket Discounts The Internationa Festiva and Scottish Chamber The Internationa Festiva offers a range From dedicated performances, through participation events and a wide Orchestra present a concert inspired by the of prices and discounts to make attending variety of accessibe ticket prices the Internationa Festiva works with Virgin Money Fireworks Concert to over 1,500 performances more affordabe for young peope. young peope in many different ways. oca schoo pupis in Princes Street Gardens. Under 18s are offered 50% off tickets, for 27 Aug 1.30pm Ross Theatre seected performances, from 24 March. Creative Learning at the Internationa Festiva Free tickets for schoos Can be enjoyed by others from around the Haf price tickets are aso avaiabe to students The Internationa Festiva deivers a year-round programme of education and Ross Theatre in Princes Street Gardens. and to Young Scot Card hoders, who are 675,000 community projects, deveoping reationships with schoos, coeges and community 11 to 26 year ods, from across Scotand. groups, whist forging creative partnerships with other arts organisations, performers from across Scotand and the Internationa Festiva’s wonderfu Teenagers take centre stage And if you are under 26 years od you can even internationa artists. pick up a ticket for ony £8 on the day of seected The End of Eddy expores the very rea performances. See page 97 for a detais. In 2018, secondary schoo pupis are taking part in workshops exporing the opera experiences of a young man growing up in 21st La Cenerentoa, and the theatre work The End of Eddy. Dance groups from schoos century society and the issues and chaenges and communities, through training workshops, wi take part in Kadamati a free, which surround him. Made for young peope outdoor performance created by Akram Khan. The Young Critics initiative Free for under 18s in 2018 specificay this pay is aimed at teenagers supports young peope in exporing the art of criticism and appying it to events aged 14 years and over, see page 34. across the Festiva programme. As part of the season of concerts ceebrating the taent and exceence of young Year-round creative earning activity incudes The Art of Listening, which introduces musicians, tickets are being offered for the primary schoo pupis to cassica music and ive performance, Sou Boxes which Famiy show six concerts free of charge for anyone 18 expores identity through visua art and drama workshops with eading years od or under, see page 97. This is an Hocus Pocus theatre practitioners. is an highy theatrica and addition to our Young Musician's Passport. entertaining, part theatre, part dance, Supported by The Pirie Rankin Charitabe Trust Our gratefu thanks go to the companies, individuas and trusts who share our whoy absorbing show for famiies and passion to expand our creative earning across Edinburgh and the Lothians. They is recommend for chidren 7 years and incude James and Morag Anderson, Mike Shipey and Phiip Rudge, Caire and Mark oder and their famiy, see page 35.
Urquhart, The Badenoch Trust, The Educationa Institute of Scotand, The Robertson Supported by Caire and Mark Urquhart Trust, Gordon Fraser Charitabe Trust and Baiie Gifford Investment Managers.
For fu detais of a our creative earning activities visit eif.co.uk/creativeearning Young Musician’s Passport
The Internationa Festiva offers young peope from Edinburgh and the Lothians a great opportunity to see the word’s greatest cassica music artists for free, right here in Edinburgh – to join visit eif.co.uk/ympassport
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AUDIO DESCRIBERS Shows with a strong visua narrative and itte Our Internationa Festiva 2018 brochure and The Barber of Sevie (p12) 8 Aug 7.15pm Jacqueine Bouchard Susan Heier or no diaogue Access Guide are avaiabe as a downoadabe Waiting for Godot (p30) 11 Aug 2.30pm Bridget Stevens Lydia Kerr audio and PDF at eif.co.uk/access. They are aso Xenos (p40) 18 Aug 8pm Emma-Jane McHenry Cod Bood (p34) avaiabe in arge print, CD and braie formats The Beggar’s Opera (p18) 19 Aug 2.30pm Jacqueine Bouchard Susan Prenter Hocus Pocus (p35) on request. The End of Eddy (p34) 25 Aug 2pm Emma-Jane McHenry HOME (p28) La Cenerentoa (p14) 26 Aug 7.15pm Jacqueine Bouchard Jonathan Penny Access Bookings Touch Tours British Sign Language Interpreted Peope with disabiities can buy tickets for the area Prior to an audio described performance, of the venue most appropriate for their needs for SIGNERS a Touch Tour offers the opportunity to get up the owest (unrestricted view) ticket price for that Cod Bood (p34) 6 Aug 8pm Louise Hoden cose to a seection of costumes and props. performance. Essentia companion tickets are free. Waiting for Godot (p30) 10 Aug 7.30pm Jackie Greenshieds Louise Hoden Tickets for Touch Tours are free but shoud be Access discounts are not avaiabe onine. Midsummer (p26) 17 Aug 8pm Check eif.co.uk/access for updates booked in advance. Touch Tours are excusivey The End of Eddy (p34) 26 Aug 2pm Iain Hodgetts for those using the audio description service Access ine +44 (0) 131 473 2056 and their companions. In person Hub Tickets, Castehi EH1 2NE Captioned Onine eif.co.uk/access Emai [email protected] Waiting for Godot (p30) 11 Aug 2.30pm Venue Accessibiity Midsummer (p26) 15 Aug 8pm A our performances are wheechair accessibe Notes from the Fied (p32) 18 Aug 3pm and assistance animas are wecome at a our The Prisoner (p22) 26 Aug 7.30pm venues. Detaied venue access information is avaiabe at eif.co.uk/access and in our Deaf Theatre Cub Access Guide.
The Internationa Festiva has partnered with Inkbot Coective to offer the foowing Deaf Theatre Cub events. British Sign Language users can get discounted tickets, seats with a good view of the signer and excusive pre-show taks.
To book tickets or for more information contact Inkbot Coective on inkbot.coective@icoud.com or text +44 (0) 7748 181 163.
Cod Bood (p34) 6 Aug 8pm Waiting for Godot (p30) 10 Aug 7.30pm Midsummer (p26) 17 Aug 8pm HOME (p28) 24 Aug 8pm The End of Eddy (p34) 26 Aug 2pm
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Onine eif.co.uk Buy your Internationa Festiva event programme Ticket prices may vary from previousy OCD Love and Love Chapter 2 Teephone +44 (0) 131 473 2000 vouchers in advance for £4 each. Vouchers pubished prices Buy tickets for both in one transaction In person Hub Tickets, The Hub, can be redeemed at any Internationa and save 20% Castehi, Edinburgh EH1 2NE Festiva performance. Pease note that there are no event programmes avaiabe Concessions £8 on the day Booking opens at 10am on Saturday 24 March. to buy at our contemporary music events If you are under 26 years of age you can get tickets or the Virgin Money Fireworks Concert. Under 18s, Young Scot Card hoders and European for ony £8 on the day for seected performances. Youth Card hoders get 50% off tickets for seected Ony avaiabe in person from Hub Tickets. Priority booking performances. Discount avaiabe from Saturday 24 For more information visit eif.co.uk/8 Virgin Money Fireworks Concert March at 10am. Priority booking for members opens on a staggered £8 for under 26 at the Usher Ha basis from Thursday 15 March. To find out how you Priority Entry tickets et you get your favourite spot Students get 50% off on seected performances. Under 26 year ods can aso get tickets for £8 can become a member visit eif.co.uk/join-us or ca with access to Princes Street Gardens 45 minutes Tickets are subject to avaiabiity and aocations for the six youth ensembe concerts at the +44(0)131 473 2065. before the gates open to standard ticket hoders. may be imited per performance. Discount avaiabe Usher Ha from 24 March. See pages 54–64 from Saturday 24 March at 10am. Pease note If you choose to coect your tickets in for concert detais. person, you must do so from Hub Ticket unti 8pm Ticket Coection Fees Senior citizens, arts workers and registered Supported by The Pirie Rankin Charitabe Trust on Monday 27 August. unempoyed get 30% off tickets for seected Tickets can be sent as an e-ticket, coected from See p74 for detais or for more information visit performances. Discount avaiabe from Free for Under 18s in 2018 Hub Tickets in advance or picked up at the venue eif.co.uk/virginmoneyfireworks Wednesday 4 Juy at 10am. In addition to the 50% discount, if you are under 18 from one hour before the start of the performance. years of age you can aso get free tickets for the A concessions are subject to avaiabiity and six youth ensembe concerts at the Usher Ha. See A transaction fee of £1 per ticket, up to a maximum proof of status is required at point of sae. pages 54–64 for concert detais. of £5, wi be added to a bookings. If you choose to Young Musician’s Passport receive your tickets in the post, you wi be charged Every year, the Edinburgh Internationa Festiva Supported by The Pirie Rankin Charitabe Trust £1 for postage. gives away over 1,000 free concert tickets. Access Bookings A specia offers are subject to avaiabiity and may To be eigibe you must be aged 18 or under on Peope with disabiities can buy tickets for the area be withdrawn at any time. Proof of age is required Hub Tickets Opening Hours 24 March 2018, go to schoo in Edinburgh or the of the venue most appropriate for their needs for at point of sae and coection. Lothians, and pay a musica instrument or be Wednesday 14 March – Saturday 7 Juy: the owest (unrestricted view) ticket price for that part of a chora group. Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm performance. Essentia companion tickets are free. Access discounts are not avaiabe onine. Group Bookings Sunday 18 March 12–5pm To find out more and to register for a Young Sunday 25 March 10am to 5pm Musician’s Passport visit eif.co.uk/ympassport Groups of 10 or more receive a 10% discount on fu Access ine +44 (0) 131 473 2056 price tickets for seected performances and have In person Hub Tickets, Castehi EH1 2NE Monday 9 Juy – Sunday 29 Juy: In association with City of Edinburgh the opportunity to make fexibe ticket reservations. Monday to Sunday 10am to 6pm Counci’s Arts and Creative Learning Team Our dedicated group saes team wi assist you with Onine eif.co.uk/access your booking. Monday 30 Juy – Sunday 26 August: Emai [email protected] Monday to Sunday 9am to 7.30pm Groups booking ine +44 (0) 131 473 2089 Further information at [email protected] Monday 27 August 10am to 8pm
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The Queen’s Ha 11am 11am 11am 11am 11am 11am Nicoa Benedetti Dover Quartet (p75) Piotr Anderszewski (p76) Viktoria Muova Katia Iker Arcayürek Simon Takacs Quartet Marc- Academy of Ancient Music Labèque (p76) Lepper (p77) Andre Hamein 1 (p78) (p75)
The Studio 1pm 5pm 6pm Ane Satyre of Hocus Pocus (p35) The Thrie Estaitis (p90)
King’s Theatre 8pm 3pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm Cod Bood (p44) Cod Bood (p44) Cod Bood (p44) OCD Love (p46) Love Chapter 2 (p46)
The Lyceum 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Waiting for Godot Waiting for Godot (p30) Waiting for Godot (p30) Waiting for Godot (p30) Waiting for Godot (p30) Waiting for Godot (p30) Waiting for Godot (p30) (Preview) (p30)
Festiva Theatre 7.15pm 7.15pm 7.15pm The Barber of Sevie The Barber of Sevie The Barber of Sevie (p12) (p12) (p12)
Usher Ha 7.30pm 3pm 7.30pm 4.30pm 5pm 7.30pm Opening Concert (p53) Nationa Youth Choir of YOA Orchestra of the Siegfried (p55) Nationa Youth Orchestra London Symphony Scotand (p54) Americas (p55) of Scotand (p56) Orchestra 1 (p59) 8pm 8pm NYO-USA Jazz (p54) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (p56) The Hub 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 1pm Midsummer (Preview) Midsummer (Preview) Midsummer (p26) Midsummer (p26) Midsummer (p26) Midsummer (p26) Midsummer (p26) Power, Gender (p26) (p26) and the Arts (p90)
8pm Midsummer (p26)
Church Hi Theatre 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Notes from the Fied Notes from the Fied Notes from the Fied Notes from the Fied Notes from the Fied (p32) (p32) (p32) (p32) (p32)
Other venues 10.30pm Standard Life Aberdeen Opening Event: Five Teegrams (p6)
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The Queen’s Ha 11am 11am 11am 11am 11am 11am 11am Takacs Quartet Marc- Ronad Brautigam (p79) Jean-Guihen Queyras Catriona Morison Simon Robert Levin Eivind Hotsmark Ringstad Christian Backshaw Andre Hamein 2 (p78) Aexander Menikov (p79) Lepper (p81) (p81) David Meier (p82) Sooists of the Beriner Phiharmoniker (p82)
The Studio 2pm 6pm 2pm 6pm 2pm, 4pm 6pm 2pm, 4pm 6pm Hocus Pocus (p35) Hocus Pocus (p35) Eurovision Young Eurovision Young Musicians 2018 Musicians 2018 semi-finas (p67) semi-finas (p67)
King’s Theatre 8pm 8pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm OCD Love (p46) Love Chapter 2 (p46) The Beggar's Opera (p18) The Beggar's Opera (p18) The Beggar's Opera (p18) The Beggar's Opera (p18)
The Lyceum 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 8pm 8pm 3pm 8pm 3pm Waiting for Godot (p30) Waiting for Godot (p30) La Maadie de a Mort La Maadie de a Mort La Maadie de a Mort La Maadie de a Mort (p24) (p24) (p24) (p24)
Festiva Theatre 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 8pm 8pm 8pm Autobiography (p42) Autobiography (p42) Autobiography (p42) Xenos (p40) Xenos (p40) Xenos (p40)
Usher Ha 7pm 6pm 8pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 8pm 7.45pm 7.45pm London Symphony Hande's Samson (p60) Nationa Youth Orchestra Hanse Grete (p62) Oso Phiharmonic City of Birmingham Scottish Chamber Scottish Chamber Orchestra 2 (p59) of Canada (p60) Orchestra (p62) Symphony Orchestra Orchestra 1 (p63) Orchestra 2 (p63) (p64)
The Hub 3pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 6.30pm 10pm 8pm 3pm 8pm 8pm Midsummer (p26) Midsummer (p26) Midsummer (p26) Midsummer (p26) Midsummer (p26) Midsummer (p26) Midsummer (p26) Midsummer (p26)
Church Hi Theatre 3pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 3pm 7.30pm Notes from the Fied Notes from the Fied Notes from the Fied Notes from the Fied Notes from the Fied Notes from the Fied Notes from the Fied (p32) (p32) (p32) (p32) (p32) (p32) (p32)
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The Queen’s Ha 11am 11am 11am 11am 11am 11am Pierre-Laurent Aimard Dorothea Röschmann Pave Haas Quartet (p85) James Ehnes Steven Pierre-Laurent Aimard Hebrides Ensembe (p86) (p83) Roger Vignoes (p83) Osborne (p85) Tamara Stefanovich (p86)
The Studio 7pm 7pm 2pm 7pm 2pm 7pm 2pm 7pm 2pm 7pm The End of Eddy (p34) The End of Eddy (p34) The End of Eddy (p34) The End of Eddy (p34) The End of Eddy (p34) The End of Eddy (p34)
King’s Theatre 8pm 8pm 8pm 3pm 8pm 3pm HOME (p28) HOME (p28) HOME (p28) HOME (p28) HOME (p28)
The Lyceum 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm The Prisoner (p22) The Prisoner (p22) The Prisoner (p22) The Prisoner (p22) The Prisoner (p22)
Festiva Theatre 7.15pm 7.15pm 7.15pm La Cenerentoa (p14) La Cenerentoa (p14) La Cenerentoa (p14)
Usher Ha 7.30pm 8pm 7.30pm 7pm 7.30pm 7.45pm 7.30pm Coburn Orchestra (p64) Dvořák Requiem (p66) Des canyons aux étoies… Eurovision Young Batimore Symphony Batimore Symphony Maher's Eighth (p70) (p66) Musicians Fina 2018 Orchestra 1 (p68) Orchestra 2 (p68) (p67)
The Hub 8pm 8pm 6.30pm 10pm 8pm 3pm 8pm 8pm Midsummer (p26) Midsummer (p26) Midsummer (p26) Midsummer (p26) Midsummer (p26) Midsummer (p26)
Edinburgh 8pm 8pm Ross Theatre Payhouse John Grant (p88) St. Vincent (p88) Princes Street Gardens
1.30pm Schoos Concert Other Venues 6.15pm Kadamati (p48) 9pm at Paace of Virgin Money Fireworks Hoyroodhouse Concert (p73)
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