1 2 1 A Y T U UR N P Or Pubic Funders Opening Event Partner Principa Supporters Dunard Fund American Friends of the Edinburgh Léan Scuy EIF Fund Internationa Festiva James and Morag Anderson Edinburgh Internationa Festiva Fireworks Concert Partner Sir Ewan and Lady Brown Endowment Fund Festiva Partners Benefactors Trusts and Geoff and Mary Ba Richard and Catherine Burns Foundations Jo and Aison Eiot Sheia Covin The Badenoch Trust Project support Lady Eiot Lori A. Martin and The John S Cohen Foundation Principa Sponsors Josceyn Fox Christopher L. 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Registered Address: The Hub, Castehi, Edinburgh EH1 2NE. 2 3 OnE 2 Internationa Festiva Supporters 6 Standard Life Aberdeen Opening Event: Five Teegrams 8 Light on the Shore 10 Opera 20 Theatre 3– GS 8 36 It takes more than one voice… ­ 38 Dance 49 Thank you to donors 50 Music 72 Virgin Money Fireworks Concert 74 Music 92 Young Peope and the Internationa Festiva 94 Accessibe Performances 96 Booking Information 98 Festiva City EIF.CO.UK #EDINTFEST 102 Diary 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 Lighting Partner Back Light 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 ERN 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.