This is Nicola Benedetti’s fourth opening concert while she has been in charge of the Edinburgh International Festival, and I suspect it…

What would ol’ Shakey think of such liberties? Two plays that may or may not be a single narrative, which may or may not have a missing…

It's an uncanny coincidence that two operas about pain relief which goes wrong should premiere at Irish and Scottish festivals at the same…

Czech animator Jiří Trnka’s rise to international fame mirrored that of his contemporary Karel Zeman, both filmmakers producing work as…

Popular culture includes both will-o'-the-wisp confections, gone in 900 seconds pace Warhol’s aphorism, but can also creates a shorthand…

On paper, this Prom looked like a well-stocked display-case for collective choral virtues. Baroque wizard Peter Whelan (pictured below) led…

What does a spectacular backdrop give to – or maybe take from? – a music festival? Exit the Wigmore Hall and, however transcendent the…

Olga Koch comes bounding on to the stage and tells us she needs a time machine to tell her story, to prevent someone being born – at which…

Tread softly into Jon Batiste’s third volume of his Piano Series, Monk Meditations, drawing on and drawing out a number of introspective…

 Water Colour ★★★★Milly Sweeney’s powerful two-hander comes to one of the Fringe’s highest-profile venues bearing prestigious awards…