2010
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Project Grants Supported through the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund
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Contents
Edinburgh International Festival
Contents
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Discover the Festival Get the most out of your experience
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Make Friends with the Festival And get great benefits
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Opening Concert John Adams’s El Niño
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Opera From Porgy and Bess to Bliss
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Dance From New Zealand through Europe via USA to Brazil
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Theatre Gospel music, classic novels, theatre meets cinema
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Orchestras From Moscow, Cleveland and Amsterdam
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Recitals Great American Mezzos
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Jazz and Contemporary Music Guitars, trumpets, accordions and cellos
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Treasures and Traditions at Greyfriars Baroque, renaissance and more
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Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert Glorious music and fiery spectacle
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The Queen’s Hall Series Intimate morning recitals
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Explorations Debates and talks
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Conversations Up close with artists
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Behind the Scenes A creative glimpse
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Festival City To help plan your Festival
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Booking Information Find out about concession discounts
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Prices Details of ticket prices
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Festival Diary At a glance, events day by day
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Oceans apart – these words convey so much of the spirit and ambition behind the Edinburgh International Festival in 2010. They conjure images of the harsh physical journeys across huge expanses of sea, taken at great peril by European explorers from the 14th century, in search of new worlds. They also suggest the often brutal suppression wrought by colonial invasion. But most of all, I hope that they suggest an expansive imaginative territory between places of extraordinary cultural diversity which this programme seeks to explore and even to bridge. Artists and repertoire from California, New York and New England, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Argentina, Samoa, New Zealand, Australia as well as Spain, Holland and the UK all weave a rich, sensual tapestry during our Festival in 2010. As these diverse cultures, separated by vast oceans, converge in Edinburgh, I hope you will join us to celebrate the synergies, contrasts and revelations they offer. Jonathan Mills
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Welcome to Festival 2010
Discover the Festival
Value for money Festival shows from £6.50
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The ticket prices at the Festival are tailored to suit every pocket with as wide a range as possible. There are also many discounts with special prices on offer for young people and senior citizens, those with a disability, students and unemployed people. See page 65 for ticket prices, how to book and full details of all our concessions.
Our goal is to make the Festival accessible to as many people as possible. Have a look at our Access Guide with details on facilities at our venues, sign language, audio described, captioned and supertitled performances. This brochure and the Access Guide are available in large print, audio and Braille formats from 0131 473 2089 or go to eif.co.uk/accessguide for digitally accessible versions. And don’t miss our special ticket prices – see page 64 for details.
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Explore Edinburgh Edinburgh is wonderfully compact and very easy to walk around. All our Edinburgh International Festival venues are within walking distance or a short bus ride away from Princes Street, so no need for a car. Our map on page 63 gives you a bird’s eye view. Go online for more about how to plan a trip to the Festival and find out about our Partner Hotels at eif.co.uk/hotels
Thanks to BBC Radio 3, our Radio Broadcast Partner, you can hear over twenty Festival concerts. All these concerts are recorded for broadcast, with details indicated throughout the brochure. So catch up with what you missed or hear your favourite moments again on Radio 3. Full details at bbc.co.uk/radio3
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Edinburgh the Festival City The Edinburgh International Festival is one of a raft of festivals in the city, see page 62 for a rundown of the other major events in the city or go online to search across all of Edinburgh’s festivals at edinburghfestivals.co.uk
We’ve teamed up with The Scotsman as our Media Partner for 2010. You’ll find great previews, interviews and reviews on a wide range of Edinburgh International Festival events in the paper and online, to help you plan your Festival.
Are you IN? Enjoy the benefits of being part of the INcrowd for only £20. The Festival and The Skinny have partnered up to provide people in their 20s and 30s with a real INsider’s view on what’s happening at Edinburgh’s greatest event of the year. Get the ultimate back stage pass with: – exclusive access to ‘money can’t buy’ experiences – invites to dress rehearsals and preview performances – hot tickets to exclusive VIP parties and behind the scenes events
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– the chance to brush shoulders with the dancers, musicians and production staff – exclusive discounts on selected performances If you want to get under the skin and behind the scenes at the Festival visit eif.co.uk/INsider In association with
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Make Friends with the Festival
Make Friends with the World’s Favourite Festival MEMBERSHIP BEGINS AT JuST £50 The Festival’s Friends and Patrons play a vital role in making sure the Festival continues to be world class each year. What’s more their ongoing support helps secure our future. Join us today and enjoy a wonderful range of great benefits. – Never miss a sold out show. Priority booking allows you to book tickets ten days before they go on sale to the general public. – Receive exclusive invitations to behind the scenes events, Festival celebrations and other unique year round special events. – Save money with 20% discount on all food and drinks at Cafe Hub and exclusive Friends ticket offers on Festival performances. Want to know more? Go online to eif.co.uk/membership or call Zuleika Brett, for a chat on 0131 473 2064
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Edinburgh International Festival Benefactors and Patrons Benefactor
Platinum Supporter
Mr & Mrs James Anderson Ewan and Christine Brown Roxane Clayton Joscelyn Fox Frank Hitchman Donald and Louise MacDonald Jim and Isobel Stretton
J Attias Geoff and Mary Ball Katie Bradford The Rt. Hon. Lord Clarke Lord and Lady Coulsfield Sue and Andy Doig Jo and Alison Elliot Claire Enders Anne Faggionato Mr and Mrs Ted W Frison Raymond and Anita Green David and Judith Halkerston Shields and Carol Henderson André and Rosalie Hoffmann J Douglas Home Peter Horvath and Barnett Serchuk
Platinum Reserve Richard Burns Gavin and Kate Gemmell David McLellan Aileen and Stephen Nesbitt Keith and Andrea Skeoch
Alan M Johnston Fred and Ann Johnston Norman and Christine Lessels Alan Macfarlane Duncan and Una McGhie Jean and Roger Miller Mr & Mrs R H Mitchell Mr Derek H Moss Allan Myers AO QC and Maria Myers AO Nick and Julie Parker Lady Potter Donald and Brenda Rennie Sir Duncan Rice and Lady Rice Mr Andrew and Mrs Carolyn Richmond Ross Roberts Fiona and Ian Russell
Richard Simon Charles Smith Andrew and Becky Swanston Robin and Sheila Wight Ruth Woodburn Neil and Philippa Woodcock Mr Hedley G Wright And others who prefer to remain anonymous Legacy Ronald Alexander Miller Mackenzie, FRICS
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“Mujer de Mucha Enagua” Pa’ ti Xicana (1999) Yreina D. Cervántez
Opening Concert
Opening Concert
El Niño
The miracle of the nativity is given new life in John Adams’s oratorio El Niño. Women’s voices and experiences are central to this retelling of the story unusually seen from a mother’s perspective. Like many composers before him, such as Bach and Schutz, Adams tempers the holy rejoicing with deeply personal expressions of pain.
BY JOHN ADAMS
Conductor James Conlon leads a wonderful cast in this extraordinary opener for Festival 2010.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra James Conlon Conductor
‘This is Adams’s most powerful and affecting and sublimely assured music’ Los Angeles Times
Edinburgh Festival Chorus National Youth Choir of Scotland Christopher Bell Chorus Master
‘a major masterpiece’ Philadelphia Enquirer Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Monday 13 September at 7.00pm
Mark Grey Sound designer Jessica Rivera Soprano Kelley O’Connor Mezzo soprano Willard White Baritone Theatre of Voices Paul Hillier Artistic director Robin Blaze Countertenor Duncan Brickenden Countertenor Risto Joost Countertenor
Friday 13 August 8.00pm Usher Hall Tickets £46 £42 £39 £33 £20 £18 £12.50 £10 2 hours 30 minutes approximately eif.co.uk/opening
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Opera
Lloyds TSB Scotland Inspiring Performances
‘A life-enhancing, high-octane production breaks our hearts… total entertainment.’ Financial Times Opéra de Lyon’s Mazeppa, Festival 06: ‘an epic production... takes the breath away’ The Times ‘a luxury cast... splendid Lyon orchestra... a star-quality show’ The Independent
THE GERSHWINS’®
Porgy and Bess SM
GEORGE GERSHWIN, DuBOSE AND DOROTHY HEYWARD AND IRA GERSHWIN Sung in English
Opéra de Lyon Porgy Derrick Lawrence Bess Janice Chandler-Eteme Crown Timothy Robert Blevins Sportin’ Life Ronald Samm Maria LaVerne Williams Clara Magali Léger Jake Rodney Clarke Serena Kristin Lewis Peter Bernard Abervandana Frazier Keel Watson Dancers from the Compagnie Montalvo-Hervieu and Théâtre National de Chaillot
William Eddins Conductor José Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu Direction José Montalvo Video conception Dominique Hervieu Costume designer Vincent Paoli Lighting designer José Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu Choreography
Opera
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Lloyds TSB Scotland Inspiring Performances
Summertime and the livin’ is easy... It’s a balmy evening on Catfish Row; a hypnotic heat permeates the calm. On the horizon a storm is brewing. Porgy and Bess, set in a nondescript, crumbling tenement on the waterfront in the deep south of the USA, is a story of broken dreams and faded hopes; of dignity and betrayal. It is a poignant tale of a decent, lonely man called Porgy and his love for the beautiful, bewitching Bess.
Written at the very end of the Great Depression in 1935, Porgy and Bess has become perhaps the quintessential American opera – a symbol of hope in a time that was so often hopeless; a demonstration of love and loyalty in desperate times. George Gershwin’s score is full of songs famous in their own right including It ain’t necessarily so, I got plenty o’ nuttin and Bess, you is my woman now; songs that still capture the heart and stir the emotions 80 years after they were written.
In a new production for Opéra de Lyon, dynamic choreographers José Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu capture the salty, sassy, sardonic essence of Porgy and Bess complete with state-of-theart video imagery and high energy dance. With their Montalvo-Hervieu dance company they had a huge Festival hit in 2007 with On Danse.
Saturday 14, Monday 16, Tuesday 17 August 7.15pm Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Tickets £64 £56 £50 £40 £36 £26 £14 3 hours approximately eif.co.uk/porgy BSL interpreted and audio described performance Tuesday 17 August 7.15pm
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Opera
Opera
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Montezuma CARL HEINRICH GRAuN LIBRETTO BY FREDERICK II, KING OF PRUSSIA Sung in Italian with English supertitles
‘How can I believe in a god that Montezuma Flavio Oliver commands deceit? What can Eupaforice Lourdes Ambriz Tezeuco Rolegio Marín I think of a faith that teaches you Pilpatoè Lucía Salas to despise every man that differs Erixene Lina López from your opinion?’ Montezuma Fernando Cortes Adrián Popescu Navrès Christophe Carré Carl Heinrich Graun’s opera Montezuma bears witness to a clash of civilisations of epic Ensemble Elyma proportions. In a devastating Gabriel Garrido Musical director contest between old and new worlds, Montezuma becomes Claudio Valdés Kuri Director a battle for domination of one Herman Sorgeloos Set and great empire over another. lighting designer Ximena Fernández Costume The ornately gilded temples designer and palaces of the Aztec empire provide a magnificent backdrop A co-production between for a spectacular welcome to the Theater der Welt, Edinburgh adventurer Fernando Cortes and International Festival, Teatro Real his Spanish Conquistadors. de Madrid, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Festival Internacional Cervantino and The Anglo Mexican Foundation.
But it does not take long for these unscrupulous Europeans to vanquish and brutally slaughter their Aztec hosts and ruthlessly plunder and lay waste to their extraordinary wealth and culture. It was a brutal subjugation of a people seen as heathen and barely human by an invading colonising power. How did it happen? And why did Aztec King Montezuma appear to allow it to happen? Was Montezuma a hero, a traitor or a visionary? Written in 1755, over 200 years after these tragic events occurred, Montezuma is a remarkable
collaboration between one of the great masters of coloratura composition and a politically sophisticated and artistically talented monarch. Carl Heinrich Graun and Frederick II of Prussia explore through words and music the very complex relationship between the ambitious Cortes and the fatalistic Montezuma. Graun’s rarely-performed operatic gem is the basis for an innovative new production from one of Mexico’s most exciting young directors, Claudio Valdés Kuri. A cast of fine European and Mexican singers, artists drawn equally from old and new worlds, is led by Ensemble Elyma and its conductor Gabriel Garrido.
Saturday 14, Sunday 15, Tuesday 17 August 7.15pm King’s Theatre Tickets £35 £28 £25 £20 £18 £12 2 hours 35 minutes approximately eif.co.uk/montezuma
Supported by Embassy of Mexico, united Kingdom and CONACuLTA and the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, Estados unidos Mexicanos
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Opera in Concert
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Idomeneo
WOLFGANG AMADEuS MOzART
Concert performance sung in Italian Idomeneo Kurt Streit Idamante Joyce DiDonato Ilia Rosemary Joshua Elettra Emma Bell Arbace Rainer Trost Sacerdote Keith Lewis Voce di Nettuno Jan Martiník Scottish Chamber Orchestra Sir Charles Mackerras Conductor Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus Gregory Batsleer Chorus Master
A mythological story of love and jealousy, sacrifice and exile, natural disaster and divine intervention, Idomeneo is set in the aftermath of the Trojan Wars. It is undoubtedly one of Mozart’s greatest operatic achievements. Sir Charles Mackerras leads the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus in a concert performance of this masterpiece of opera seria with a cast which includes the incomparable voices of Joyce DiDonato, Rosemary Joshua, Emma Bell and Kurt Streit singing the roles of Idamante, Ilia, Elettra and Idomeneo.
La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) GIACOMO PuCCINI
Concert performance sung in Italian Minnie Susan Bullock Dick Johnson Marcus Haddock Jack Rance Juha uusitalo Ashby Brindley Sherratt Nick Colin Judson Sonora Roland Wood Wowkle Louise Collett The Orchestra of Scottish Opera Francesco Corti Conductor Edinburgh Festival Chorus Christopher Bell Chorus Master
The Girl of the Golden West is a fast-moving tale of love, jealousy, gambling, banditry and violence and their effect on a tight knit community. Despite the odds, the intrepid and resourceful frontierswoman Minnie gets her feller. Highly dramatic and brilliantly orchestrated La fanciulla del West was first staged in New York in 1910. It followed close on the heels of Puccini’s huge success with Madama Butterfly.
Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Saturday 18 September at 6.00pm Friday 20 August 7.00pm
Monday 23 August 7.00pm
Usher Hall
Usher Hall
Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10
Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10
3 hours 45 minutes approximately
3 hours approximately
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Supported by
With additional support from
The Binks Trust
The Stevenston Charitable Trust
The Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh
The Indian Queen
L’heure espagnole
Concert performance sung in English
Concert performance sung in French
Daniel Purcell The Masque of Hymen Henry Purcell Come, ye sons of art Henry Purcell The Indian Queen
Chabrier Espagne Ibert Escales Ravel L’heure espagnole
Gillian Keith Soprano Robin Blaze Countertenor John Mark Ainsley Tenor Allan Clayton Tenor Roderick Williams Bass
Concepcion Sophie Koch Ramiro Johannes Weisser Gonzalve Gordon Gietz Don Inigo Christopher Purves Torquemada Keith Lewis
The Sixteen Harry Christophers Conductor
Royal Scottish National Orchestra Stéphane Denève Conductor
Set in the royal courts of Peru and Mexico just prior to the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors, The Indian Queen is an intricate tale of dynastic power and regal heritage. It is arguably Purcell’s most exotic and alluring masque.
From its opening bars, Ravel’s superbly witty, comic masterpiece is completely beguiling. As the chaotic sound of various clocks tick in different tempi, this short rather riotous romp through the world of an absent-minded clockmaker is as simple and inconclusive as it is charming and lyrical.
HENRY PuRCELL
Following the memorable success of their performance of The Fairy Queen in 2009, Harry Christophers and The Sixteen return to the Usher Hall to delight us in a programme containing immortal anthems and delightful occasional music, with a text adapted from John Dryden and Sir Robert Howard.
MAuRICE RAVEL
Stéphane Denève leads the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and a wonderful cast in a programme that delights the ear in its affection for the colours and sonorous contours of all things Spanish.
Tuesday 24 August 8.00pm
Wednesday 25 August 7.30pm
Usher Hall
Usher Hall
Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10
Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10
2 hours 30 minutes approximately
2 hours 15 minutes approximately
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Opera in Concert
Made possible by a legacy from
Ronald Alexander Miller Mackenzie, FRICS
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Opera
Bliss AN OPERA BY BRETT DEAN AND AMANDA HOLDEN BASED ON THE NOVEL BY PETER CAREY Sung in English with English supertitles
Opera Australia BBC Symphony Orchestra European Premiere Harry Joy Peter Coleman-Wright Betty Merlyn Quaife Honey B Lorina Gore Alex Barry Ryan David David Corcoran Lucy Taryn Fiebig Johnny Kanen Breen
‘Harry Joy was to die three times, but it was his first death which was to have the greatest effect on him…’ Peter Carey’s sardonic novel Bliss charts the escapades and misadventures of Harry Joy, an advertising executive who, having survived a near-death experience, gets sucked into a Kafkaesque routine of increasing bizarreness. Is he really in hell? In a place where his wife is constantly unfaithful, his son is a drug dealer and his daughter offers sexual favours to pay for her narcotic needs?
Bliss is a much-anticipated new operatic collaboration with all the ingredients for excitement: a score by Brett Dean, surely one of the most innovative composers working today; an enthralling libretto by Amanda Holden; the directorial wit and sparkle of Neil Armfield; the virtuosity of Elgar Howarth and the BBC Symphony Orchestra; and the electrifying stage presence of Peter Coleman-Wright. This opera is based on Peter Carey’s remarkable novel. Recorded for future broadcast by BBC Radio 3
Elgar Howarth Conductor Neil Armfield Director Kate Champion Choreographer Brian Thomson Set designer Alice Babidge Costume designer Nigel Levings Lighting designer Thursday 2, Saturday 4 September 7.15pm
Please note this production contains coarse language and adult themes. It is not recommended for children.
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Tickets £64 £56 £50 £40 £36 £26 £14 2 hours 40 minutes approximately
Supported by
Edinburgh International Festival Friends and Patrons
Supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria
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Bliss (the novel): ‘dazzling comic flair... quirky, irresistible’ Time Out ‘funny, humane and at times profound’ Literary Review
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Dance
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Lemi Ponifasio MAu Birds with Skymirrors Lemi Ponifasio Choreography
Lemi Ponifasio is a Samoan choreographer living in New Zealand. His company MAU is named after the Samoan independence movement – the word MAU means revolution. One of the most distinctive choreographers in the world today, Ponifasio is a fearless creative force whose work provokes attention and debate wherever it is experienced. The choreography is an extraordinary visceral kaleidoscope of ideas and influences that touch on the tensions and politics of race, tradition, mythology, urban consumerism and environmental awareness.
Tempest: Without a Body Part dance, part theatre, part ceremony, Tempest is an awe-inspiring reflection on our modern world. Sporting full-face Maori tattoo, veteran Maori activist Tame Iti strikes an imposing figure at the centre of this ferocious and beautiful vision of paradise and hell. He is the focal point of this Shakespeare-inspired work which delves deep into the iconic world of Polynesian ritual. Tempest explores timeless themes of political freedom and personal liberty.
‘An impressive choreographic tour de force.’ Le Soir
Can we ever hope to live in harmony with our environment? Can we aspire to become more than vandals? A species integrated with the planet on which we live? On the smallest of islands in the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, shiny, glittering fragments of plastic waste attract the eyes of frigatebirds. These tiny sky mirrors, deadly parcels of pollution which adorn the nests of unsuspecting sea birds, are a dreadful if ironic reminder of the fragile beauty of environmentally degraded, remote islands throughout the Pacific. Inspired by the plight of the small islands of the Pacific, Lemi Ponifasio asks some big questions about our role on the planet. At a time of urgent and anxious debates on global warming, Birds with Skymirrors is a reflection, through beauty and stillness, on our relationship with the Earth. A co-production between Théâtre de la Ville, Theater der Welt 2010, Berliner Festspiele, Wiener Festwochen, KVS Brussels, New Zealand International Arts Festival and Holland Festival.
‘Clear. Beautiful. Masterful’ Lumiere
Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 August 8.00pm
Tuesday 17 August 8.00pm Wednesday 18 August 2.30pm
The Edinburgh Playhouse
The Edinburgh Playhouse
Tickets £28.50 £26 £22 £20 £16 £12 £10 £8
Tickets £28.50 £26 £22 £20 £16 £12 £10 £8
1 hour 30 minutes approximately
1 hour 30 minutes approximately
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Dance
Grupo Corpo With an extraordinary combination of flair, fire and flamboyance, Grupo Corpo exudes many of the qualities associated with Brazilian culture. Building on a solid foundation of classical movement, Grupo Corpo’s high-octane ensemble of dancers combines the sensual elements inherent in Brazilian popular dance with cutting-edge contemporary dance techniques. Prepare for a real feast of fast and fabulous rhythm and movement.
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‘exuberant, ecstatic, fierce’ This Week in New York Friday 20 – Monday 23 August 8.00pm Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
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Tickets £28.50 £26 £20 £18 £15 £10 1 hour 40 minutes approximately eif.co.uk/grupo
Parabelo
Onqotô
Rodrigo Pederneiras Choreographer Tom zé and zé Miguel Wisnik Music Fernando Velloso and Paulo Pederneiras Set design Freusa zechmeister Costume designer Paulo Pederneiras Lighting designer
Rodrigo Pederneiras Choreographer Caetano Veloso and José Miguel Wisnik Music Freusa zechmeister Costume designer Paulo Pederneiras Set and lighting designer
Carnival comes to the Festival in a performance of seductive physicality. Dressed in sleek, brightly coloured costumes, the Grupo Corpo dancers stamp their feet and sway their hips with snake-like fluidity in this ravishing creation straight off the white sandy beaches of Rio. The richly atmospheric light and shadow of Parabelo create transitions from colour to monochrome in this punchy and utterly engaging work.
With its fast footwork and dynamic Brazilian rhythms, Onqotô sets out to explore a monumental theme – that of humanity’s place within the vastness of the universe. A soundtrack of driving Latin funk provides the musical backdrop for an eccentric debate over the paternity of the universe. It’s a curious competition between the idea of a great primordial explosion and a witty notion that the cosmos was conceived as a weird form of rivalry between Rio’s two main football teams. The audience is left to decide the outcome!
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Dance
Lloyds TSB Scotland Inspiring Performances
Alonzo King Lines Ballet
In their UK debut, choreographer Alonzo King and his Lines Ballet from San Francisco bring a pair of works to the Festival which show the vulnerability and tenderness of his choreography alongside the furious abandon and exhilarating freedom of his company’s contemporary classical style. The ephemeral and lyrical Dust and Light with its celestial longing for the moon and the stars opens the programme. Rasa draws on the diverse cultural roots of American contemporary dance and traditional Indian classical music in a remarkable collaboration with virtuoso tabla player Zakir Hussain, to bring this evening to a startling, hypnotic conclusion.
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‘Hyperkinetic… exceptional’ The New Yorker ‘Lines Ballet is a vision that remains inscribed in memory’ Le Monde
Lloyds TSB Scotland Inspiring Performances
Dust and Light
Rasa
Alonzo King Choreographer Francis Poulenc and Arcangelo Corelli Music Axel Morgenthaler Lighting designer Robert Rosenwasser Costume designer
Alonzo King Choreographer zakir Hussain Tabla Kala Ramnath Violin, voice
Dance
Thursday 26 – Sunday 29 August 8.00pm Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Tickets £28.50 £26 £20 £18 £15 £10
Alonzo King’s dancers find themselves bathed in silvery radiance in this emotional and exuberant work. Dust and Light is set to beautiful baroque music by Corelli and ethereal choral works by Poulenc. From intimate duets and trios Dust and Light expands outwards into an elaborate ensemble, immersing the audience in a luminous grace.
Originating in 16th century India, tabla music developed as dance music, each mesmerising and melodic drum beat inspiring a unique human movement. Rasa is Alonzo King’s third collaboration with Grammy Award-winning tabla master Zakir Hussain, who performs live on stage with the spellbinding singer and violinist Kala Ramnath.
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1 hour 45 minutes eif.co.uk/alonzo
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Léan Scully EIF Fund
Dance
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Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal Água Pina Bausch Choreographer Peter Pabst Set and video designer Marion Cito Costume designer Matthias Burkert and Andreas Eisenschneider Musical collaboration
The fascinating contrasts and complexities of Brazil form the inspiration for Água. A joyous homage to a paradise of swaying palm trees, sultry jungles and stalking leopards from one of the greatest artists of the 21st century. During a long and distinguished career, the great German choreographer Pina Bausch, who died in June 2009, helped to redefine the parameters of contemporary dance with a unique and highly idiosyncratic brew of classical movement, burlesque humour and overt theatricality.
Pina Bausch was quite simply an extraordinary force of creative energy. In Água, her charismatic and eclectic company of dancers transports you from beach to rainforest and then back again in a playful work brimming with joie de vivre. Complete with kissing competitions, dancers illuminated by fairy lights and men and women splashing each other with water bottles like kids on the beach, Água exemplifies all that is best in Pina Bausch’s profound and playful brand of dance theatre.
‘the most influential ‘basically figure in European reinvented dance.’ contemporary William Forsythe dance for the past 30 years’ The Daily Telegraph Friday 27 – Sunday 29 August 7.30pm The Edinburgh Playhouse Tickets £28.50 £26 £22 £20 £16 £12 £10 £8
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2 hours 55 minutes approximately eif.co.uk/agua Audio described performance Sunday 29 August 7.30pm
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Dance
Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company Quimeras (Chimeras)
‘flamenco at its finest – modern, sophisticated and tantalising’ The Evening Standard ‘Peña’s technique was flawless’ Los Angeles Times
World Premiere Jude Kelly Director
Is there a better world out there, waiting to be discovered? A place of wonder and promise in which a better life is possible? Or are our dreams merely a chimera, an imagined reality that turns out to be a disappointment or – worse – false? We tend to believe a better life is ahead, over an elusive frontier just beyond our grasp. Paco Peña creates a new work for Festival 2010 through the powerful storytelling of flamenco music and dance. In the past Spain has sent its people across the world in search of a new life. Now a modern prosperous country, Spain itself is the aspirational home for many immigrants from poorer countries. Quimeras brings to life the journeys of migrants and refugees, reflecting both good and bad aspects of their dreams, the reality of their lives and their connection with the people on the other side of the frontiers they cross. With imagination and dedication Paco Peña reinvents flamenco, expanding its horizons whilst never losing touch with its visceral roots. He brings his full company to the Festival for this world premiere. Co-production between the Edinburgh International Festival and Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company.
Thursday 2 – Saturday 4 September 8.00pm The Edinburgh Playhouse Tickets £28.50 £26 £22 £20 £16 £12 £10 £8 Sponsored by
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The Sun Also Rises BASED ON THE NOVEL BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY
World Premiere
Royal Lyceum Theatre Tickets £27 £24 £18 £16 £10 3 hours 15 minutes approximately eif.co.uk/sun Audio described performance Monday 16 August 7.30pm
John Collins Director David zinn Set and costumes Mark Barton Lights Matt Tierney and Ben Williams Sound
The first world war is over, but some battles still rage on.
A co-production between Elevator Repair Service and New York Theatre Workshop commissioned by the Ringling International Arts Festival / Baryshnikov Arts Center and the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. Saturday 14 – Monday 16 August 7.30pm, Sunday 15 August 11.00am, Tuesday 17 August 2.00pm
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The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway’s first major novel, follows a group of weary, aimless and frequently inebriated American expatriates searching for identity, redemption and diversion in Europe. Told with spare and tightly written prose, Hemingway’s story winds its way through France and Spain and lands in Pamplona where bullfighting and the fiesta rage in the streets. In this world premiere staging from acclaimed New York ensemble Elevator Repair Service, Hemingway’s novel comes to life on a stage littered with liquor bottles and cafe chairs. Elevator Repair Service’s interpretations of classic American novels by F Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner have garnered critical acclaim across the world. An illuminating stage interpretation of one of America’s greatest literary works, The Sun Also Rises features the ensemble’s trademark sound design, highly energized choreography and re-imagined bullfighting.
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Vieux Carré
By Tennessee Williams
The Wooster Group Elizabeth LeCompte Director Jennifer Tipton Lighting Andrew Schneider Video Matt Schloss and Omar zubair Sound Cast Ari Fliakos, Ellen Mills, Kaneza Schaal, Scott Shepherd, Raimonda Skeryte, Kate Valk and Judson Williams
Commissioned by Théâtre National de Strasbourg, Wiener Festwochen, Les Spectacles Vivants – Centre Pompidou and Festival d’Automne à Paris. Saturday 21 – Tuesday 24 August 7.30pm Royal Lyceum Theatre Tickets £27 £24 £18 £16 £10 2 hours approximately eif.co.uk/woostergroup Audio described performance Tuesday 24 August 7.30pm
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‘This house was occupied once. In my mind it still is, but by shadowy occupants like ghosts.’ Tennessee Williams 722 Toulouse Street, New Orleans is a squalid rooming house where a young writer makes his home amongst restless young malcontents and elderly eccentrics. As he becomes entangled with their lives, his own fate reveals itself. In this production, the New York-based Wooster Group forges a new mode of expression for Williams’s lyric voice. The influence of Elia Kazan, who defined a style for Williams in the 1940s, is inescapable. But the Group counters the pull of Kazan by drawing stylistically from the seamy improvisational films of Paul Morrissey, produced with Andy Warhol in the early 1970s, and the recent media work of Ryan Trecartin, known for his wildly stylised performances, rapid-fire editing and digital manipulations.
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The Gospel at Colonus BY LEE BREuER AND BOB TELSON
The Blind Boys of Alabama The Legendary Soul Stirrers The Steeles The Abyssinian Chancel Choir / Inspirational Voices Cast Rev Dr. Earl F. Miller, Jay Caldwell, Kevin Davis, Carolyn Johnson-White, Bernardine Mitchell, Josie Johnson Bob Telson Piano Butch Heyward Organ Leroy Clouden Drums Lee Breuer Adaptor and director Bob Telson Composer and musical director Alison Yerxa Set designer Adam Larsen Video projection design Jason Boyd Lighting designer Ron Lorman Sound designer
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‘not just a show, it is a miracle... most electric and inventive show in American musical history!’ The Atlanta Constitution ‘wonderful, hypnotic, exhilarating... makes you feel good about being human... on the way home you’ll feel like flying.’ The Village Voice
Gospel music, rock ‘n’ roll swagger, a dash of soul and syncopated style are at the heart of this uplifting spectacle. Set in modern day America it is a radical reworking of Sophocles’s tragedy Oedipus at Colonus. The wonderful traditions of gospel singing are centre stage and will have you jumping out of your seat to join in! A Pentecostal preacher drives the narrative while the legendary gospel vocal group, The Blind Boys of Alabama, collectively play the role of Oedipus.
Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 August 7.30pm, Sunday 22 & Monday 23 August 2.30pm The Edinburgh Playhouse Tickets £30 £25 £18 £15 £10 £8 2 hours approximately eif.co.uk/colonus
Classic Greek drama is given more than a little contemporary twist by New York based theatre director Lee Breuer. He brings his seminal production to the Festival following success with the brilliantly theatrical Peter and Wendy last year and Mabou Mines DollHouse in 2007.
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Caledonia BY ALISTAIR BEATON
World Premiere
National Theatre of Scotland Anthony Neilson Director
Caledonia is a story of greed, euphoria and mass delusion. It is the story of a small, poor country mistaking itself for a place that is both big and rich. It is an ancient story for modern times.
‘Speculation buys up, in a very practical way, the intelligence of those involved.’ John Kenneth Galbraith 1993
William Paterson was a financial adventurer who in 1698 devised one of the most daring and disastrous speculations of all time. His plan: to found a Scottish colony in Darien on the isthmus of Panama in Central America and turn Scotland, one of the poorest nations in Europe, into a prosperous colonial power. He invited the public to invest. And they did – in a big way. Within weeks a vast proportion of the nation’s wealth had been subscribed. What went wrong? Distance, disease, corruption and culpability all played a part in this ruinous episode. Within a few years, the Scots – demoralised and impoverished – gave up their nation’s independent status and signed the 1707 Treaty of Union with England. Inspired by documents, journals, letters, songs and poems of the period, celebrated playwright and satirist Alistair Beaton has created a work that is both a tribute to heroic ambition and a darkly witty take on the deceptions and self-deceptions of rich and poor alike. Caledonia is directed by Anthony Neilson, the Scottish writer and director whose award-winning work for the Edinburgh International Festival has included the National Theatre of Scotland’s Realism and The Wonderful World of Dissocia.
Saturday 21, Sunday 22, Tuesday 24 & Wednesday 25 August 7.30pm, Sunday 22, Wednesday 25 & Thursday 26 August 2.30pm King’s Theatre Tickets £27 £24 £22 £18 £12 2 hours 20 minutes approximately
A co-production between the Edinburgh International Festival and the National Theatre of Scotland.
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Supported through the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund
BSL interpreted and audio described performance Wednesday 25 August 7.30pm Touch tour Wednesday 25 August 6.30pm
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Teatro Cinema Sponsored by
Sin Sangre (Without Blood) FROM ALESSANDRO BARICCO BY DAuNO TóTORO, LAuRA PIzARRO, JuAN CARLOS zAGAL AND DIEGO FONTECILLA
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Teatro Cinema is an inventive and original theatre company from Chile who create an ingenious fusion of cinema and theatre. Their highly stylised staging is a seamless blend of live action and film projection – technical and theatrical wizardry.
Performed in Spanish with English supertitles Juan Carlos zagal Director Rodrigo Bazáes Art director Loreto Monsalve Costume designer Luis Alcaide Technical director Juan Carlos zagal Original music Dauno Tótoro Film director Cast Laura Pizarro, Juan Carlos zagal, Diego Fontecilla, Ernesto Anacona and Etienne Bobenrieth
When blood is shed the past always comes back to haunt us. Witness to the brutal slaying of her father and brother by three armed intruders, Nina is discovered by one of the assassins under a trapdoor. He decides to spare her life. Many years later the two meet again and their shared past uncovers a murky river of secrets, deceit and vengeance. Saturday 28 & Monday 30 August, Wednesday 1 & Friday 3 September 8.00pm King’s Theatre Tickets £27 £24 £22 £18 £12 1 hour 30 minutes approximately eif.co.uk/sin
Sin Sangre is an adaptation of a novella by Italian author and playwright Alessandro Baricco, with all the darkness and tension of a 1960s B-movie thriller. It is a fast paced production combining intense dialogue and raw action with widescreen cinematic projection.
The Man Who Fed Butterflies BY LAuRA PIzARRO, DAuNO TóTORO AND JuAN CARLOS zAGAL
Performed in Spanish with English supertitles Juan Carlos zagal Director José Pedro Pizarro Art director Mónica Navarro Costume designer Luis Alcaide Technical director Juan Carlos zagal Original music Dauno Tótoro and Juan Carlos zagal Film directors Cast Laura Pizarro, Juan Carlos zagal, Bernardita Montero, Cristian Garín and José Manuel Aguirre
‘Film and theatre have gone through a blender under Juan Carlos zagal. As much a feast for the senses as it is a blow to the heart.’ The Straits Times Sunday 29 August, Thursday 2 & Saturday 4 September 8.00pm, Saturday 4 September 2.00pm King’s Theatre Tickets £27 £24 £22 £18 £12 1 hour 45 minutes approximately eif.co.uk/butterflies
During the last moments of his life an old man feels the urge to carry out a forgotten ritual taught to him by the only survivor of an extinct and forgotten tribe. They believed each recently hatched butterfly was the spirit of a dead warrior searching for his kingdom. Every year at the same time the sacred men stood on a cliff, their arms open, palms covered in fresh nectar, waiting to feed the butterflies as they set off on their annual migration. This original and poetic story makes the very most of the celebrated Chilean company’s striking visual style blending film and live action. Brave and ambitious, The Man Who Fed Butterflies asks questions about the true potential of the human mind. A co-production between Edinburgh International Festival, Teatro Cinema, Santiago a Mil, Scène Nationale de Sète, Centre Dramatique Le Manège, Napoli Teatro Festival and Fondo Para El Desarrollo de Las Artes (Chilean Government).
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Songs of Ascension
Meredith Monk Company The Elysian Quartet Edinburgh university Singers Meredith Monk Director
BY MEREDITH MONK AND ANN HAMILTON
‘Watching Monk’s ‘Later generations work is like seeing will envy those who music.’ eyespyLA.com got to see her live.’ The New Yorker Saturday 28, Sunday 29 & Monday 30 August 8.00pm
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Part uplifting celebration, part devotional ritual, Songs of Ascension is an ethereal, meditative work that combines music, movement and film. Buddhism and the notion of spiritual enlightenment are the inspiration for this luminous piece of music theatre which has all the hallmarks of Monk’s distinctive and evocative vocal style. Songs of Ascension is a collaboration with American multi-media artist Ann Hamilton.
Royal Lyceum Theatre Tickets £27 £24 £18 £16 £10
Where one artform stops and another starts has never been a concern for Meredith Monk as she seamlessly blends elements of music, art and theatre to startling effect. Her career blossomed in the avant-garde world of 1960s New York alongside contemporaries including Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed and Andy Warhol.
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Diciembre (December) BY GuILLERMO CALDERóN
‘Explores the reality of war and its power to transform collective consciousness and domestic life.’ Caras y Caretas
Royal Lyceum Theatre
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Performed in Spanish with English supertitles Guillermo Calderón Director Francisca Castellano Assistant director Cast Paula zúñiga, Trinidad González, Jorge Bécker
Christmas Eve 2014. Chile, Peru and Bolivia are at war. A soldier arrives home on 24 hour leave to celebrate with his pregnant twin sisters. It is to be a far from silent night. When the sisters discover he may not return to the battle front, one is ready to hide him. The other is furious. Both try to convince him of their opposing views of the war. Will the brother defect or return to battle? Diciembre is blackly comic, exploring the divisive nature of war for both a country and a family.
Thursday 2, Friday 3 & Saturday 4 September 8.00pm, Saturday 4 September 2.30pm
Tickets £27 £24 £18 £16 £10
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Teatro en el Blanco literally means ‘theatre that hits the target’ and this young Santiago based company makes its Edinburgh debut promising just that: visceral, emotive theatre.
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Rhapsodies in Red, White and Blue
Russian National Orchestra
Royal Scottish National Orchestra Gunther Schuller Conductor
Vadim Repin Violin
Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus Timothy Dean Chorus Master
Mikhail Pletnev Conductor
Beethoven Overture, Coriolan Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Shostakovich Symphony No 15
Steven Osborne Piano Copland Lincoln Portrait Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue (original jazz band version) Ives Symphony No 4
Noted for its memorable melodies and lively interplay between soloist and orchestra, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto is in the hands of one of the great violin virtuosos of our time, Vadim Repin.
The Festival goes Stateside for an evening of 20th century North American classics inspired by the pilgrims of New England, the upheavals of civil war and the spirit of prohibition.
Shostakovich likened the opening sequences of his Fifteenth Symphony to a toy shop, referring to a sense of child-like innocence and naiveté which is soon corrupted. The Russian National Orchestra’s impassioned strings, spiky brass and crashing percussion combine to deliver a compelling and illuminating performance.
Conductor and composer Gunther Schuller has an extraordinary career that spans performing with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and jamming alongside Miles Davis, making him the ideal conductor for tonight’s concert.
Vadim Repin: ‘This is raptly beautiful playing… Superb.’ The Sunday Times
Aaron Copland made use of folk songs such as Camptown Races and quotations from Abraham Lincoln, including excerpts from his Gettysburg Address, to create a homage to America’s great President. Steven Osborne joins the orchestra for Gershwin’s quintessentially American Rhapsody in Blue, performed here in its jazziest incarnation. Charles Ives’s Fourth Symphony brings this concert to a colourful climax. Saturday 14 August 7.30pm
Thursday 19 August 8.00pm
Usher Hall
Usher Hall
Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10
Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10
1 hour 40 minutes approximately
1 hour 50 minutes approximately
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Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra 01
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra 02
Sakari Oramo Conductor
Sakari Oramo Conductor
Petra Lang Mezzo soprano
Juha uusitalo Bass baritone
Nielsen Overture, Helios Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Nielsen Symphony No 4 ‘The Inextinguishable’
Wagner Overture, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Dutchman’s Monologue, Der fliegende Holländer Wotan’s Farewell, Die Walküre Nielsen Symphony No 5
The great Danish romantic composer Carl Nielsen took inspiration from a glorious summer in this overture named after the Greek God of the Sun. The music joyously and poetically depicts the sun over the Aegean Sea. Wistful, romantic and intense, Wagner’s settings of Mathilde Wesendonck’s poetry were written amidst rumours of an affair between the two. Leading mezzo soprano Petra Lang’s sensitive interpretations of romantic lieder are compelling, intuitive and insightful. Nielsen’s dramatic Fourth Symphony, also known as The Inextinguishable, explores the elemental life force within each of us. Sakari Oramo and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra bring Nielsen’s poetic and lyrical works thrillingly to life.
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The Dutchman in Wagner’s Flying Dutchman has become a signature role for Finnish baritone Juha Uusitalo. He has performed it at La Scala in Milan, Vienna State Opera, San Francisco Opera and Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin. Here he sings the Dutchman’s Monologue alongside Wotan’s emotive Farewell from Die Walküre. Invigorating Baltic blasts characterise Carl Nielsen’s work. His Fifth Symphony depicts an immense struggle for supremacy between good and evil. Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra: ‘ingenious, imaginative and explosive’ The Scotsman
Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Wednesday 15 September at 7.00pm
Juha Uusitalo: ‘towering presence, scrupulous musicianship’ Financial Times
Sunday 15 August 8.00pm
Monday 16 August 8.00pm
Usher Hall
Usher Hall
Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10
Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10
1 hour 40 minutes approximately
1 hour 50 minutes approximately
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Cleveland Orchestra 01 Franz Welser-Möst Conductor Joela Jones Organ Ives From the Steeples and Mountains Variations on America (original version for organ) Postlude in F Bruckner Symphony No 8
The first of two concerts by the mighty Cleveland Orchestra presents composing legends side by side. Iconoclastic Ives is now seen as the father of American music. From the Steeples and Mountains paints a picture of a quiet Sunday morning and ends having ascended the highest of craggy peaks. The magnificence of the Usher Hall’s organ can be heard in Joela Jones’s performance of two of Ives’s works for organ. Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony is one of his grandest. Also known as The Apocalyptic, it delivers lavish and magnificent orchestral sound. Hugo Wolf, who attended the Vienna premiere, wrote that it was ‘the work of a giant’. Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Monday 20 September at 7.00pm
Tuesday 17 August 8.00pm Usher Hall Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10 Supported by
2 hours 15 minutes approximately
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‘Welser-Möst drew the most magnificent colours and moods from the orchestra’ Telegraaf
02 Franz Welser-Möst Conductor Laura Aikin Soprano Korngold Act II Prelude, Die tote Stadt Marietta’s Lied, Die tote Stadt Berg Lulu Suite Brahms Symphony No 2 in D
‘Laura Aikin wields the colours of her voice like a vocal Renoir.’ Opernwelt
The Cleveland Orchestra presents extracts from Korngold’s characteristically lush 1920 opera Die tote Stadt (The Dead Town) which explores how to overcome the loss of a loved one, a theme that resonated with audiences of the time, having just come through the trauma of World War I. Alban Berg’s opera Lulu is based on a play by Frank Wedekind in which the murderer Lulu slithers through a sticky, seedy world of corruption and deceit. His Suite from Lulu contains contemporary jazz rhythms reflecting European musical trends of the 1930s. The jollity of Brahms’s Second Symphony has been likened to the pastoral mood of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony with the subtle interplay of rich, contrasting melodies.
Wednesday 18 August 8.00pm Usher Hall Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10 Supported by
2 hours approximately
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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 01
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Mariss Jansons Conductor
Mariss Jansons Conductor
Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments Bartók Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Berio 4 Dédicaces Stravinsky Firebird Suite (1945)
Anna Larsson Mezzo soprano
A welcome return to the Festival for this great orchestra. The magical combination of the Concertgebouw, conductor Mariss Jansons and an eclectic and invigorating programme is sure to ignite. Dedicated to the memory of Claude Debussy, Stravinsky’s single movement Symphonies of Wind Instruments draws on Russian folk elements illustrating the composer’s love for his homeland. Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta has made its way into the popular psyche after featuring in the films Being John Malkovich and The Shining. 4 Dédicaces is an umbrella title that Pierre Boulez gave to four of Berio’s magical miniatures that were grouped together in the late 1980s. The Firebird is possibly Stravinsky’s best known work, the suite from it is performed here in its 1945 form.
Edinburgh Festival Chorus Royal Scottish National Orchestra Junior Chorus Christopher Bell Chorus Master Mahler Symphony No 3
Mahler’s monumental hymn to the natural world uses dynamic vocal forces to create one of the most exceptional symphonies in the repertoire. The slow opening evokes the primordial sleep of nature as Mahler’s soul-stirring genius comes into full play.
Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Wednesday 22 September at 7.00pm
Monday 30 August 8.00pm
Tuesday 31 August 8.00pm
Usher Hall
Usher Hall
Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10
Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10
2 hours approximately
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
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Scottish Chamber Orchestra
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Robin Ticciati Conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Katia and Marielle Labèque Piano
Donald Runnicles Conductor
Rebel Les Elémens Kevin Volans Symphony: Daar Kom die Alibama (EIF commission, World Premiere) Poulenc Concerto for two pianos Bizet Symphony in C
Midori Violin
Irish-based South African Kevin Volans achieved wide recognition when the Kronos Quartet’s recording of his White Man Sleeps became a bestseller. Volans has incorporated African folk song into his new work, Symphony: Daar Kom die Alibama, commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival and made possible by Donald MacDonald.
Stravinsky’s baroque-inspired Dumbarton Oaks is a celebration of the music and culture of New England, USA.
Virtuoso pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque bring their sharply contrasted yet highly communicative style to Poulenc’s exciting Concerto for two pianos. Bizet’s Symphony in C was written by the composer at the tender age of 17. Brisk fanfares and rushing strings characterise this amazingly stylish work. Having taken up his post as Principal Conductor with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in 2009, Robin Ticciati makes his Festival debut. Robin Ticciati: ‘everything he touched turned into pure gold’ The Herald
Stravinsky Concerto in E flat ‘Dumbarton Oaks’ Bernstein Serenade Dvorˇák Symphony No 9 ‘From the New World’
Virtuoso violinist Midori performs Bernstein’s Serenade which the composer himself described as a ‘series of related statements in praise of love’. Dvorˇák’s lyrical New World Symphony was intended to celebrate the fourth centenary of Columbus’s ‘discovery’ of America. Midori: ‘The superstar violinist has a quality that sets her apart’ The St Petersburg Times Donald Runnicles: ‘a musical titan’ San Francisco Chronicle Recorded for future broadcast by BBC Radio 3
Friday 27 August 7.30pm
Saturday 28 August 7.30pm
Usher Hall
Usher Hall
Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10
Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10
2 hours approximately
1 hour 50 minutes approximately
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Sydney Symphony Orchestra 01
Sydney Symphony Orchestra 02
Vladimir Ashkenazy Conductor
Vladimir Ashkenazy Conductor
Dene Olding Violin
Hélène Grimaud Piano
Elgar In the South Ross Edwards Maninyas – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Peter Sculthorpe Memento Mori Elgar Enigma Variations
Sibelius Rakastava Ravel Piano Concerto in G Matthew Hindson Energy Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Suite
The eminent Russian-born conductor and pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy brings Australia’s premiere orchestra to Edinburgh for two Festival performances.
Sibelius’s Rakastava has an elegant beauty that evokes images of the Finnish countryside. Composed in the late 1920s when he toured the USA, Ravel’s Piano Concerto was heavily influenced by the emerging American art form, jazz. Hélène Grimaud brings her formidable technique and finesse to this wonderfully melodic work.
Two of Elgar’s most popular works sit alongside two modern works by Australian composers Peter Sculthorpe and Ross Edwards. In creating a sound world uniquely his own, Ross Edwards took inspiration from his homeland’s natural environment when writing Maninyas. Peter Sculthorpe’s Memento Mori was inspired by a visit to Easter Island. Famous for its great stone heads and ancient history, the island is now in environmental decline. Sculthorpe’s music reflects the varying influences humankind has had on this iconic island.
Der Rosenkavalier is perhaps Strauss’s best loved opera. His Rosenkavalier Suite begins with the opera’s orchestral prelude, depicting the night of passion (vividly portrayed by whooping horns) between the two leading characters. Hélène Grimaud: ‘immense musical skills’ Classic FM
Wednesday 1 September 7.30pm
Thursday 2 September 7.30pm
Usher Hall
Usher Hall
Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10
Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10
2 hours approximately
1 hour 40 minutes approximately
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Minnesota Orchestra
Mahler Symphony No 8
Osmo Vänskä Conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Donald Runnicles Conductor
Alisa Weilerstein Cello Barber Music for a Scene from Shelley Elgar Cello Concerto Beethoven Symphony No 7
The Minnesota Orchestra ranks among America’s top symphonic ensembles. In 2003 Osmo Vänskä took over as musical director and has received high praise for his musicality and leadership. Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony was written in 1812 during the Napoleonic Wars and plainly reflects the circumstances in which it was written. Dominated by monumentally grand themes Beethoven’s so-called gigantic symphony is among his most passionate and dramatic works. Osmo Vänskä: ‘the most vivid Beethoven playing on the market’ The New Yorker The Minnesota Orchestra: ‘an exhilarating performance’ The Scotsman
Edinburgh Festival Chorus Royal Scottish National Orchestra Junior Chorus Christopher Bell Chorus Master Erin Wall Soprano Hillevi Martinpelto Soprano Nicole Cabell Soprano Katarina Karnéus Mezzo soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers Mezzo soprano Simon O’Neill Tenor Anthony Michaels-Moore Baritone John Relyea Bass
With its vast orchestration and immense vocal forces, Mahler’s self-proclaimed ‘Symphony of a Thousand’ is an epic climax to the Festival’s 2010 Usher Hall programme. Donald Runnicles leads the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, a stellar cast of soloists, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Junior Chorus in Mahler’s heavenly Eighth Symphony. Recorded for future broadcast by BBC Radio 3
Sunday 29 August 7.30pm
Saturday 4 September 8.00pm
Usher Hall
Usher Hall
Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10
Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
1 hour 40 minutes approximately
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Recitals
Joyce DiDonato Mezzo soprano Susan Graham Mezzo soprano David zobel Piano Malcolm Martineau Piano Joyce DiDonato is among the world’s most enchanting performers and the winner of many honours including the Metropolitan Opera’s Beverly Sills Award. Her thrilling debut at the 2009 Festival wowed her audience. In this concert her performance includes works by Italians Pergolesi, Caccini and Leoncavallo alongside Spanish repertoire by Granados, Obradors and Montsalvatge. ‘a fabulous powerhouse of a voice with incredible dynamic range and vocal colour’ The Scotsman ‘dazzlingly virtuosic’ San Francisco Chronicle Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Tuesday 14 September at 7.00pm
Now a firm Festival favourite, American mezzo soprano Susan Graham is one of the world’s foremost opera and recital stars. Tonight she performs a sumptuous programme of music by American composers alongside songs by Mozart and Mahler. An evening of glorious vocal music-making. ‘creamy tone, smoothly controlled technique, keen artistic instincts.’ Baltimore Sun ‘totally compelling’ The Wall Street Journal ‘at the peak of her powers.’ The Sunday Times Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Tuesday 21 September at 7.00pm
Sunday 22 August 8.00pm
Friday 3 September 8.00pm
Usher Hall
Usher Hall
Tickets £32 £25 £20 £18 £14 £12.50 £10 £8
Tickets £32 £25 £20 £18 £14 £12.50 £10 £8
1 hour 40 minutes approximately
1 hour 40 minutes approximately
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Kronos Quartet David Harrington Violin John Sherba Violin Hank Dutt Viola Jeffrey zeigler Cello Aleksandra Vrebalov …hold me, neighbor, in this storm… Steve Reich Different Trains George Crumb Black Angels
With a fearless drive to expand the range and context of the string quartet, the Kronos Quartet is one of the most celebrated and influential ensembles of today. This is chamber music on a grand scale – colourful, imaginative, provocative and sure to set the expansive acoustic of the Usher Hall ablaze. Steve Reich’s Different Trains, written for the Kronos Quartet, marked a new compositional method in which speech recordings generate the musical material for the instruments. …hold me, neighbor, in this storm… is inspired by folk and religious music from Aleksandra Vrebalov’s native Serbia. George Crumb’s Black Angels for electric string quartet is a vibrant work described by the composer as ‘a kind of parable on our troubled contemporary world’.
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Jazz and Contemporary Music
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Scottish National Jazz Orchestra Gunther Schuller Conductor Tommy Smith Leader Joe Lovano Saxophone
The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra performs a programme of music from jazz luminaries Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie. You can also hear Gil Evans’s arrangements of music from Porgy and Bess made famous in a recording by legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis on which Gunther Schuller himself performed. One of the cornerstones of contemporary Scottish jazz, Tommy Smith, leads the band and Schuller conducts. Joe Lovano joins the orchestra celebrating great, big band, jazz music: unexplored and traditional; universal and native; emphatic and reflective, all played by the finest musicians from Scotland’s vibrant jazz scene. Joe Lovano: ‘It’s fair to say that he’s one of the greatest musicians in jazz history.’ The New York Times Tommy Smith: ‘brilliantly flexible and gorgeously melodic’ The Herald
‘an extraordinary career of boundary-breaking discovery and innovation’ The New York Times
Saturday 21 August 8.00pm
Thursday 26 August 8.00pm
Usher Hall
Usher Hall
Tickets £32 £25 £20 £18 £14 £12.50 £10 £8
Tickets £32 £25 £20 £18 £14 £12.50 £10 £8
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
2 hours approximately
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Sarah Connolly Mezzo soprano John Horler Piano Sarah Connolly, one of Britain’s greatest mezzo sopranos, started her career as a jazz singer. Connolly returns to her roots in two concerts dedicated to British and American song from the 1930s and 40s. Songs from Ivor Novello’s 1935 musical Glamorous Night and Hoagy Carmichael’s 1942 Skylark are performed alongside hits by George Gershwin. ‘unrivalled: simply the best, most exciting, most galvanising performer we have today’ The Independent ‘Connolly’s glorious singing would grace any stage in the world.’ The Sunday Times Friday 20 & Saturday 21 August 9.30pm eif.co.uk/connolly
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John Etheridge Guitar Sweet Chorus John Etheridge brings his quartet Sweet Chorus, with Chris Garrick on violin, Dave Kelbie on rhythm guitar and Andy Crowdy on double bass, to the Festival. They pay homage to jazz legends guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli as Etheridge worked with them both. ‘It is music that demands that you close your eyes and listen’ The Guardian
James Crabb Accordion George Vassilev Guitar
Friday 27 August 9.30pm eif.co.uk/etheridge1
John Etheridge Guitar In this solo concert Etheridge roams across Africa, Europe and America with music that includes gypsy tunes, jazz riffs, metallic blues and his famed improvisations. Saturday 28 August 9.30pm eif.co.uk/etheridge2
Pioneering classical accordionist James Crabb is one of the world’s leading exponents of the instrument, performing as a soloist worldwide. He is joined for this concert by classical guitarist George Vassilev. The sexy, seductive sounds of South America resonate around The Hub with works by Argentinian composers Astor Piazzolla and Tomas Gubitsch and Brazilian Sergio Assad, specially arranged for accordion and guitar. Sunday 29 August 9.30pm eif.co.uk/crabb1
James Crabb Accordion A solo recital in which James Crabb performs works by US composers John Zorn and Aaron Copland alongside the passionate music of Astor Piazzolla. ‘He combines the energy and raunch of the café with the refinement of the concert hall…’ Sydney Morning Herald
The Hub Tickets £17.50 1 hour approximately
Monday 30 August 9.30pm eif.co.uk/crabb2
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Treasures and Traditions at Greyfriars
Treasures and Traditions at Greyfriars Musicians and artists were among the first Europeans in Central and South America and began a cultural colonization that was to last many centuries. From as early as the 15th century, Europe’s finest composers found great and long lasting popularity in places such as Mexico, Bolivia and Peru. As European musicians travelled the ‘New World’ they encountered new sounds and music and shared their artistry with local peoples. Together they created new styles and traditions and huge bodies of work which are still being unearthed and rediscovered today.
The Tallis Scholars
Festival 2010 offers a chance to hear works created by this extraordinary meeting of cultures along with some of the earliest music to be exported and made famous halfway across the globe.
Tuesday 17 August 5.45pm
Greyfriars Kirk Tickets £17.50
Peter Phillips Director The Tallis Scholars perform a programme of choral music by Spanish renaissance composers Cristóbal de Morales and Francisco Guerrero, whose music became popular in the cathedrals of Latin America.
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Sacred Music from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro Ensemble Le Sans-Pareil Bruno Procopio Director
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Director Bruno Procopio, with his choir and instrumental ensemble, takes a musical journey from Portugal to Brazil. The concert includes the extraordinary requiem by 19th century native Brazilian composer José Maurício Nunes Garcia and Haydn’s Missa Brevis written in honour of the Portuguese friar Saint João Cidade, St John of God. Wednesday 18 August 5.45pm eif.co.uk/sacred
Fiesta Criolla Ensemble Elyma Gabriel Garrido Director This Greyfriars series begins with a grand and colourful representation of a baroque festival for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Exploring the late 18th century works of Roque Jacinto de Chavarría the programme for chorus, singers and instrumentalists blends ceremonial and religious music with folk songs and dances. Monday 16 August 5.45pm eif.co.uk/fiesta
Bolivian Baroque Florilegium Ashley Solomon Director Katia Escalera Soprano Gian-Carla Tisera Soprano Karina Troiano Mezzo soprano Henry Villca Tenor Florilegium, one of Britain’s foremost baroque ensembles, is joined by a quartet of young Bolivian singers in music recently unearthed from the Christian missions of Chiquitos and Moxos Indians in eastern Bolivia. Thursday 19 August 5.45pm eif.co.uk/bolivian
The Sixteen Harry Christophers Director A concert of music by Tomás Luis de Victoria and Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, two great renaissance composers from Spain. Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla travelled throughout Latin America before becoming Maestro de Capilla, in charge of music at Puebla Cathedral, Mexico. Friday 20 August 5.45pm eif.co.uk/sixteen
Latin American Vespers Ex Cathedra Jeffrey Skidmore Director The choir and instrumentalists of early music specialists Ex Cathedra present a programme following the structure of the Vespers Service with baroque and renaissance music from Mexico, Bolivia and Peru. Monday 23 August 5.45pm eif.co.uk/vespers
Music of Fire and Air La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI Jordi Savall Director
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Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert
Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert Scottish Chamber Orchestra Clark Rundell Conductor Korngold Kings Row (extracts) Bernstein On the Waterfront (extracts) Herrmann Marnie (extracts) Waxman Taras Bulba (extracts)
Classical composers Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Bernard Herrmann and Franz Waxman all left Europe to follow careers in America where they found fame as pioneers of a new artform – film music. Leonard Bernstein, later famous for his musical West Side Story, was the composer behind the film score for Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront. Join the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for a spectacular evening of American film music with carefully choreographed pyrotechnics for a rousing finale to the 2010 Festival. Hollywood offers up a perfect opportunity for the masters of fireworks design, Pyrovision, to paint the Edinburgh skyline in cinematic style. Visit eif.co.uk/bankofscotlandfireworksconcert for advice on best viewing areas, downloadable concert programme and information on how to make your evening the best it can be. Please note there are special ticket sales arrangements, see page 64.
Jordi Savall and his vocal and instrumental ensembles return to the Festival with the music of fire and air; a celebration of over 200 years of musical meeting points between ancient Iberia and the ‘New World’ from the 16th century onward.
Sunday 5 September 9.00pm
Tuesday 24 August 5.45pm
45 minutes approximately
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The Queen’s Hall Series
The Festival’s series of recitals at The Queen’s Hall offers you the chance to start your day by immersing yourself in music – from Monteverdi to Oscar Peterson through to Beethoven, Dvorˇák and Ives. Some of the world’s finest artists and ensembles perform music from contemporary American, South American and Australasian composers juxtaposed with well loved works from the European masters.
The Queen’s Hall Series is supported by
Edinburgh International Festival Benefactors
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The Queen’s Hall Series Jonathan Biss Piano Kirchner Five Pieces Schumann Kreisleriana Mozart Adagio in B minor Beethoven Piano Sonata in F minor Op 57 ‘Appassionata’
Young American pianist Jonathan Biss opens The Queen’s Hall Series with Leon Kirchner’s Five Pieces, which began life as songs set to poems by Emily Dickinson before becoming lyrical piano works. Schumann’s Kreisleriana was inspired by a character from Tales of Hoffmann. Mozart’s tender and expressive Adagio is followed by Beethoven’s fiery and violent Appassionata, pitting man against nature and offering a tempestuous finale to the concert. ‘no ordinary pianist... an exceptional talent, plays with a selfless maturity that is exceptional.’ BBC Music Magazine ‘completely natural, innately musical, tightly controlled and deeply felt.’ BBC Music Magazine ‘proclaims his Mozartian credentials in scintillating, beautifully proportioned performances’ The Daily Telegraph Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Tuesday 24 August at 1.00pm
Saturday 14 August 11.00am The Queen’s Hall Tickets £27 £25 £20 £17 £10 £7 1 hour 45 minutes approximately eif.co.uk/queenshall
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Magdalena Kožená Mezzo soprano Private Musicke Love Letters
With a dazzling voice, captivating presence and rare musical intelligence, Magdalena Kožená excels at interpreting the repertoire of early music and opera. This intimate recital with viol ensemble Private Musicke features music by Italian and Spanish composers, including d’India, Caccini and de Ribayaz, who paved the way for Monteverdi.
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Melvyn Tan Piano Škampa Quartet Mozart Piano Concerto No 11 in F K413 Janácˇek String Quartet No 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ Chopin Piano Concerto No 2
Written by Mozart and Chopin when both were in their early twenties, these piano concertos remain popular to this day. The rarely performed versions for string quartet and piano are played alongside Janácˇek’s Second String Quartet, nicknamed Intimate Letters, inspired by his private correspondence with a close friend. ‘Few standing ovations have ever been so richly deserved’ The Guardian
‘a great communicator, with strong dramatic instincts and a distinctive mezzo voice.’ The Times
Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Thursday 26 August at 1.00pm
‘voice of exquisite beauty’ Opera ‘beguiles and enchants throughout… combines radiant purity with burnished intensity’ BBC Music Magazine Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Wednesday 25 August at 1.00pm
Monday 16 August 11.00am
Tuesday 17 August 11.00am
The Queen’s Hall
The Queen’s Hall
Tickets £27 £25 £20 £17 £10 £7
Tickets £27 £25 £20 £17 £10 £7
1 hour 45 minutes approximately eif.co.uk/kozena
With support from
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Trio zimmermann Beethoven String Trios Op 9 Nos 1, 2 and 3
Violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann, who last thrilled Festival audiences as a soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic in 2006, is joined by viola player Antoine Tamestit and cellist Christian Poltéra for the Festival debut of Trio Zimmermann. Beethoven’s Opus 9 String Trios are strikingly original and, as early works, revealed his distinctive musical personality. Considered fully fledged masterpieces, they set new standards in the genre and prepared the ground for his subsequent composition of string quartets and symphonies. ‘vigorous and lively interplay, breathtaking’ Kieler Nachrichten
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Edicson Ruiz Double bass Sergio Tiempo Piano Programme to include: works by Gabrielli, Carter, Holliger and Kurtág for solo double bass, Chopin’s Piano Sonata No 2 and South American works for double bass and piano
Just 25 years old, Edicson Ruiz is establishing his credentials as a master of the double bass. Born in Caracas and a graduate of the Venezuelan El Sistema scheme, at just 17 Ruiz became the first Latin American, and youngest-ever, member of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Teaming up with Argentine-Venezuelan Sergio Tiempo, he will have The Queen’s Hall moving to the South American rhythms of Ginastera and Piazzolla.
Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Friday 27 August at 1.00pm
Wednesday 18 August 11.00am
Thursday 19 August 11.00am
The Queen’s Hall
The Queen’s Hall
Tickets £27 £25 £20 £17 £10 £7
Tickets £27 £25 £20 £17 £10 £7
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
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Pavel Haas Quartet Haydn String Quartet in D minor Op 76 No 2 Dvorˇák String Quartet in F Op 96 ‘American’ Dvorˇák String Quartet in G Op 106
The Pavel Haas Quartet’s performance at Festival 2008 was one of that year’s highlights which both excited audiences and garnered critical acclaim. This year it returns with a programme which includes Dvorˇák’s American Quartet, written in Iowa at the same time as he composed the New World Symphony. ‘this is one of the most polished and musically exciting young string quartets in the world today.’ The Washington Post ‘a riveting performance, loaded with flamboyance, passion and uncommon intimacy.’ The Scotsman, Festival 08
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Photo: Marco Borggreve
Photo: Marco Borggreve
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Christianne Stotijn Mezzo soprano Joseph Breinl Piano Programme to include: Schoenberg Das Buch der hängenden Gärten Brahms Vier ernste Gesänge
Sensational mezzo soprano Christianne Stotijn graduated from the BBC’s New Generation Artists scheme and has gone on to establish herself as one of the most exciting and sought after singers of her generation. 2010 sees her Festival debut with regular collaborator Joseph Breinl. The Book of the Hanging Gardens marks Schoenberg’s move from tonal tradition to harmonies commonly associated with the expressionist movement. Brahms’s late Four Serious Songs are all, to some extent, meditations on death. They are most probably memorials to close friends. ‘a class apart; she stamps every note and word with character, and delivers her songs with a lyrical glow’ The Times Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Tuesday 31 August at 1.00pm
Friday 20 August 11.00am
Saturday 21 August 11.00am
The Queen’s Hall
The Queen’s Hall
Tickets £27 £25 £20 £17 £10 £7
Tickets £27 £25 £20 £17 £10 £7
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
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Simon Keenlyside Baritone Malcolm Martineau Piano Ned Rorem Selected songs Butterworth Six songs from A Shropshire Lad Bredon Hill and other songs Schumann Dichterliebe
Time Magazine called Ned Rorem ‘the world’s best composer of art songs’. The winner of a Pulitzer Prize, he ranks as one of America’s most honoured composers and has a catalogue of over 500 songs and cycles. In a tragic irony, Butterworth, who set A E Housman’s poems reflecting on the second Boer War, was killed at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Dichterliebe is one of Schumann’s most admired works. Settings of poems by Heinrich Heine, it traces a bitter journey of unrequited love.
Pavel Haas Quartet Britten Three Divertimenti Haas String Quartet No 2 ‘From the Monkey Mountains’ Beethoven String Quartet in F Op 59 No 1
The second string quartet by Pavel Haas From the Monkey Mountains takes its title from a nickname for the Czech highlands. Deeply influenced by Haas’s mentor and teacher, Leoš Janácˇek, the work depicts the atmosphere and landscapes of his homeland. Britten’s youthful Divertimenti and the first of Beethoven’s great Razumovsky quartets demonstrate this youthful quartet’s immense versatility and virtuosity. ‘a unique mix of impeccable technique and warm, interactive ensemble playing.’ The Scotsman
‘one of the peerless singer-actors of our generation… heart-stoppingly lyrical as well as forceful’ The Guardian ‘a quite outstanding performance of Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad… carried the scent and the bloom of spring in the voice.’ The Times Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Wednesday 1 September at 1.00pm
Monday 23 August 11.00am
Tuesday 24 August 11.00am
The Queen’s Hall
The Queen’s Hall
Tickets £27 £25 £20 £17 £10 £7
Tickets £27 £25 £20 £17 £10 £7
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
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Gerald Finley Baritone Julius Drake Piano Described as a baritone with a voice of ‘easy luxury’ by The New York Times, Canadian Gerald Finley performs an entertaining selection of music from Europe and the United States accompanied by pianist Julius Drake. Schumann found great inspiration in the poetry of Heinrich Heine and Finley performs a selection of the composer’s settings including two of his finest ballads Belshazzar and The Two Grenadiers. Finley and Drake also perform Ravel’s humorous Histoires naturelles, songs by Barber including Solitary Hotel, a setting of text from Ulysses in a fast tango style, and songs by Ives including the swashbuckling Slugging a Vampire. ‘A tremendous performance’ The Independent ‘an impulsive ardour I’ve never heard equaled’ Gramophone Magazine ‘intelligent and gripping, and sings with a tone that has never sounded more luxurious.’ Classic FM Magazine
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Midori Violin Ozgur Aydin Piano Beethoven Violin Sonata in A minor Op 23 Bloch Violin Sonata No 2 ‘Poème mystique’ Mario Davidovsky Duo Capriccioso Brahms Violin Sonata No 2
Midori makes her Festival debut with a programme which juxtaposes two well known violin sonatas with two 20th century works. Bloch described his Second Violin Sonata, composed while he was in America, as portraying the world as it should be. Davidovsky is an ArgentineAmerican composer whose Duo Capriccioso is a delightful dialogue between violin and piano. ‘a performance of such transcendent power and grace that the thrilled audience gave her that rare thing, a genuine, heartfelt standing ovation in the middle of a recital.’ The Globe and Mail Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Tuesday 7 September at 1.00pm
Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Friday 3 September at 1.00pm
Wednesday 25 August 11.00am
Thursday 26 August 11.00am
The Queen’s Hall
The Queen’s Hall
Tickets £27 £25 £20 £17 £10 £7
Tickets £27 £25 £20 £17 £10 £7
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
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Nash Ensemble
Llyˆr Williams Piano
Bartók Contrasts Gershwin Lullaby for string quartet Copland Sextet Dvorˇák String Quintet in E flat Op 97 ‘American’
Beethoven Piano Sonata in E flat Op 27 No 1 Ives Piano Sonata No 2 ‘Concord’
Jazz clarinettist Benny Goodman commissioned Bartók’s only chamber piece to include his instrument. Originally played by Bartók, Goodman and violinist József Szigeti, Contrasts explores jazz and the differences in timbre between the instruments.
Ives’s Concord Sonata is named after a New England town where a remarkable group of inventors, philosophers, poets and writers lived and worked in the middle of the 19th century. In the Concord Sonata Beethoven’s influence on Ives is clear. Beethoven’s Sonata reflects his own personal turmoil in the early 1800s.
The manuscript for Lullaby lay on Ira Gershwin’s shelf for many years until ‘one of the truly great musicians of our time’ The Times harmonica virtuoso Larry Adler transcribed it for harmonica and string quartet and presented it at the Edinburgh International Festival in 1963. ‘Technical brilliance was there in abundance… more impressive The work was premiered in its original form, for string quartet, in 1967. still was the sheer range of expression and the individuality of the performance’ The Herald Notorious for its wicked technical challenges, Copland’s Sextet is imbued with his enthusiasm for jazz rhythms as well as the popular rhythms of Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Thursday 9 September at 1.00pm the Charleston and Mexican dance. Spillville, Iowa, is home to an old Czech community where Dvorˇák spent happy times escaping from New York. Here he composed his famous American works including this Quintet nicknamed American. ‘a chamber group beyond compare’ The Independent ‘one of the finest chamber music concerts of the season’ The Washington Post Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Wednesday 8 September at 1.00pm
Friday 27 August 11.00am
Saturday 28 August 11.00am
The Queen’s Hall
The Queen’s Hall
Tickets £27 £25 £20 £17 £10 £7
Tickets £27 £25 £20 £17 £10 £7
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
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Joan Rodgers Soprano Roderick Williams Baritone Roger Vignoles Piano Programme to include: Richard Mills Songlines of the Heart’s Desire Wolf Italienisches Liederbuch (selection) and songs by Schumann and Brahms
Acclaimed baritone Roderick Williams and star of the opera stage and concert platform Joan Rodgers perform a programme of duets and solo songs accompanied by Roger Vignoles. In his cycle Songlines of the Heart’s Desire, Australian composer Richard Mills has set stories telling of journeys of hearts and minds, by poets from across time and around the world – an anonymous 4th century Chinese poet, Bengali Rabindranath Tagore, American Kenneth Patchen, French-Tunisian Amina Said and Australians John Shaw Neilson and Judith Wright. Songlines of the Heart’s Desire: ‘exceptional... a major lyrical song cycle of great beauty about love suspended within a timeless now.’ The Age
Steven Osborne Piano Joplin Maple Leaf Rag Gershwin Three Preludes Ives Three-page Sonata George Crumb Processional Steven Osborne Improvisation Nikolai Kapustin Five Preludes Peterson Indiana Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales Rachmaninov Variations on a Theme of Corelli Op 31
Opening with one of Scott Joplin’s most famous pieces, Maple Leaf Rag, through Gershwin’s jazzy, syncopated Three Preludes, his own improvisation and Oscar Peterson’s speedy fingered Indiana into Ravel’s waltzes and Rachmaninov’s Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Steven Osborne performs one of the most eclectic programmes at this year’s Festival. ‘You could have heard a pin drop. Steven Osborne’s power over the hall was absolute’ The Daily Telegraph ‘There was another jazz improvisation by way of encore… a remarkable demonstration of both pianism and musicianship at their very best.’ The Guardian Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Friday 10 September at 1.00pm
Monday 30 August 11.00am
Tuesday 31 August 11.00am
The Queen’s Hall Tickets £27 £25 £20 £17 £10 £7
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The Queen’s Hall Series
Tickets £27 £25 £20 £17 £10 £7
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
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Ars Nova Paul Hillier
Tokyo Quartet David Watkin Cello
David Lang For love is strong Steve Reich Know what is above you Lou Harrison Mass for St Cecilia’s Day Terry Riley Chorus 193 from the Mexico City Blues of Jack Kerouac Jack Body Lullabies Ross Edwards Sacred Kingfisher Psalms (EIF co-commission, UK Premiere)
Debussy String Quartet Peter Sculthorpe String Quartet No 18 (EIF co-commission, European Premiere) Schubert String Quintet in C
A who’s who of influential contemporary American composers alongside young Australasians Ross Edwards and Jack Body makes for a distinctive and exciting choral concert.
Peter Sculthorpe was commissioned to write a new work by the Edinburgh International Festival and his String Quartet No 18 receives its European Premiere in this concert.
Ross Edwards’s Sacred Kingfisher Psalms is a co-commission between the Edinburgh International Festival, Canberra International Music Festival and Ars Nova Copenhagen. Drawing on Aboriginal bird names and Latin versions of Psalms 1 and 130, he brings together two texts with a common sense of the significance of place and a strong connection to the earth.
Schubert’s String Quintet is considered a high point of the chamber music repertoire; its beautiful, plaintive second movement is widely familiar.
David Lang’s For love is strong explores the metaphors and similes in Song of Songs and takes its title from the line ‘for love is strong as death’. Terry Riley, renowned for being a pioneer of the minimalist movement, muses on Jack Kerouac’s poem Buddhist Jamming Mexico City Blues.
Debussy’s only string quartet shows the influences of César Franck, Borodin and Javanese gamelan music.
‘a well-honed package. The purity of the ensemble is paramount.’ The Scotsman ‘The Tokyo quartet’s playing has rare beauty of tone. It all sounds gorgeous; every single radiant last note of it’ The Herald ‘a passionate, richly toned discussion among intelligent, charismatic equals... exemplary’ The New York Times
Steve Reich takes his inspiration from The Mishna, a popular text in Judaism dealing with ethics. Lou Harrison’s Mass for St Cecilia’s Day fuses Western and Asian cultures in a percussive work for male voices. New Zealander Jack Body’s Lullabies were inspired in part by the vocal music of China’s minority cultures. Wednesday 1 September 11.00am
Thursday 2 September 11.00am
The Queen’s Hall
The Queen’s Hall
Tickets £27 £25 £20 £17 £10 £7
Tickets £27 £25 £20 £17 £10 £7
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
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Duo Sol
Simón Bolívar String Quartet
Korngold Much Ado About Nothing Suite: Garden Scene Beethoven Violin Sonata in A minor Op 47 ‘Kreutzer’ Piazzolla Le Grand Tango Ross Edwards Exile John Adams Road Movies Matthew Hindson Little Chrissietina’s Magic Fantasy
Bach Contrapunctus 1 from The Art of Fugue Shostakovich String Quartet No 8 Javier Alvarez Metro Chabacano Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op 51 No 2
Duo Sol brings a flamboyant programme of music from the new world together with Beethoven’s dazzling Kreutzer Sonata.
Young, talented and passionate the musicians of the Quartet, Alejandro Carreño, Eduardo Salazar, Ismel Campos and Aimon Mata are also associated with the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra and the Venezuelan music project El Sistema.
One of Hollywood’s leading film composers, Korngold was just 20 when he wrote incidental music for Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Piazzolla’s Le Grand Tango is a vital tango alternately languorous and impassioned.
In the final concert of The Queen’s Hall Series the Simón Bolívar String Quartet performs a programme featuring music from South America alongside works by Bach, Brahms and Shostakovich. This concert promises to finish the Festival on a high.
Australian composers Ross Edwards and Matthew Hindson show very different influences and ambitions, reconnecting music with ritual, spontaneity and the impulse to dance and exploring elements of techno and death-metal styles respectively. John Adams’s Road Movies travels through three movements: Relaxed Groove, Meditative and 40% Swing.
‘nothing less than a miracle... From here, I see the future of music for the whole world. I see this programme not only as a question of art, but deep down as a social initiative. It has saved many lives, and will continue to save them.’ Sir Simon Rattle describes El Sistema
Friday 3 September 11.00am
Saturday 4 September 11.00am
The Queen’s Hall Tickets £27 £25 £20 £17 £10 £7
The Queen’s Hall Supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria
Tickets £27 £25 £20 £17 £10 £7
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
1 hour 45 minutes approximately
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Explorations
Explorations, presented in association with the British Council, is a series of talks and panel discussions that parallel the artistic explorations undertaken by performers and artists in the Festival programme. An international array of academics, cultural commentators and Festival artists come together offering a fascinating opportunity to exchange ideas and understanding on quests from the past and journeys into the future. Lemi Ponifasio
What do we mean by ‘Postcolonial Art’? Professor Robert J.C. Young explores the cultural legacy of colonialism and beyond. Do postcolonial writers and artists have a distinct perspective? What is the meaning of ‘postcolonial’ for the arts? Robert J.C. Young is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. A theorist, cultural critic and historian, his subjects include postcolonial literatures and cultures, the history of colonialism and anti-colonialism and cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Saturday 14 August 2.30pm
Creative Innovation Written by artists considered innovators in their time, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises and The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess are the Festival productions the panel examines in a discussion on how innovative artists can influence and even change artforms. William Eddins, conductor of Opéra de Lyon’s Festival production, John Collins, Elevator Repair Service’s Artistic Director, are joined by Professor Agustín Fernández from the University of Newcastle to explore this intriguing subject.
The Exiled Voice Samoan Choreographer Lemi Ponifasio, academic and poet from Queen Mary University, London Omar García-Obregón and Art History specialist at the Victoria University of Wellington, Peter Brunt, consider the voice of exclusion and exile in the New World. Political activist Lemi Ponifasio whose deeply challenging and thoughtful work gives voice to silenced communities is joined by Cuban human rights activist Omar García-Obregón, a poet whose writings speak about exile and Dr Peter Brunt, an academic whose interest lies in cross-cultural art in the Pacific Rim. Wednesday 18 August 2.30pm
Pacific Solutions: new archipelagos in an ocean of thought What happens to people when they colonise others? What happens to those who are colonised? They may occupy the same territories but their stories are sharply, sometimes tragically, different. Professor Paul Carter, interdisciplinary scholar at the University of Melbourne, talks about living in a culture not your own and its implications for one’s sense of place and belonging. Sunday 22 August 2.30pm
Sunday 15 August 2.30pm
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Explorations
The Darien Venture Playwright and journalist Alistair Beaton joins Tom Devine, Professor of Scottish History, University of Edinburgh and economist Dr Gary Shea, University of St Andrews, to discuss Scotland’s failed foray into colonialism. Tuesday 24 August 2.30pm
Global perspectives and empathy American choreographer Alonzo King, whose work is renowned for its global perspective and a strong social conscience, talks with academic Roman Krznaric and Judith Robertson, Director of Oxfam Scotland, about empathy, change and new global perspectives.
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Photo: Bart Nagel
Alonzo King
Photo: R.J. Muna
Explorations
Susan Elderkin
A Scotsman’s legacy to Australasia Lachlan Macquarie, 5th Governor of New South Wales (1810 – 1821) Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir, 37th Governor of New South Wales, explores Scot Lachlan Macquarie’s contribution to Australia, in the company of one of his descendants, Ken MacQuarrie, Controller, BBC Scotland. Tuesday 31 August 2.30pm
Reflecting silenced narratives Director of Diciembre, Guillermo Calderón, novelist Susan Elderkin and Neil Armfield, director of Opera Australia’s production of Bliss, discuss how lost narratives surface in artistic expression.
Saturday 28 August 2.30pm
New voices from the landscape
Chilean writer-director Guillermo Calderón, is joined by Susan Elderkin, author of The Voices, a novel set in the Australian outback and featuring aboriginal culture, and Neil Armfield, fresh from his experience of directing the operatic adaptation of Peter Carey’s award-winning novel. Friday 3 September 2.30pm
Professor Catherine Boyle, King’s College London, Dr Fiona Mackintosh, University of Edinburgh and Chilean based writer Odette Magnet explore the cultural landscape of South America. Scholar in South American theatre Professor Boyle and Latin American literature specialist Dr Mackintosh join journalist and author Odette Magnet to discuss the new cultural expression in South American theatre and literature. As part of their discussion they look at the contribution of female writers and artists.
The Hub Tickets £6.50 1 hour approximately
Sunday 29 August 2.30pm
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Conversations
Conversations
Photo: Elaine Mayson
Photo: Weiferd Watts
Photo: Arnaldo Rodríguez
Teatro Cinema Director Dauno Tótoro and film director Juan Carlos Zagal of Chilean ensemble Teatro Cinema talk about their remarkable fusion of artforms. Tuesday 31 August 5.00pm
Montezuma
The Kronos Quartet
Midori
Prominent Mexican director Claudio Valdés Kuri talks about his experience of directing an 18th century European opera based on the story of the Aztec Emperor.
David Harrington, John Sherba, Hank Dutt and Jeffrey Zeigler talk about the singular artistic vision of the Kronos Quartet.
A rare opportunity as Midori joins us to talk about what, from a very early age, has been a remarkable international career.
Saturday 21 August 12 noon
Wednesday 25 August 5.00pm
The Wooster Group
Meredith Monk
For over thirty years they have been reinventing theatre. Elizabeth LeCompte and members of The Wooster Group discuss their latest work.
Iconic American artist Meredith Monk shares her distinctive philosophies on life.
Monday 16 August 5.00pm
Elevator Repair Service John Collins and his company, specialists in adapting 20th century American literature for the stage, talk about the world premiere of their production of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. Tuesday 17 August 5.00pm
Joyce DiDonato The American mezzo soprano talks about her sparkling international career. Wednesday 18 August 5.00pm
Grupo Corpo Founders of Brazilian contemporary dance company Grupo Corpo, Rodrigo and Paulo Pederneiras, discuss their beliefs and inspirations. Friday 20 August 5.00pm
Monday 23 August 2.30pm
The Sixteen One of the world’s greatest proponents of early European music, Harry Christophers and members of his ensemble invite us to join them in a conversation about their work.
Thursday 26 August 5.00pm
Gunther Schuller
Friday 27 August 5.00pm
Writer Alistair Beaton and director Anthony Neilson talk about the extraordinary story of the Darien scheme, Scotland’s ill fated Central American colony, and its relevance today. Tuesday 24 August 5.00pm
Grammy award-winning mezzo soprano Susan Graham talks about how she is equally at home on the concert stage and in the recording studio. Thursday 2 September 5.00pm
Teatro en el Blanco Writer and director Guillermo Calderón is joined by his cast Jorge Becker, Trinidad Jansana, Paula Zúñiga, to talk about their bitter comic production, Diciembre. Friday 3 September 5.00pm
Pulitzer Prize winning composer Gunther Schuller shares his experiences from a most remarkable and fascinating musical career that ranges from the orchestral platform to the jazz club.
Tuesday 24 August 12 noon
Caledonia
Susan Graham
Paco Peña Master of flamenco style and virtuoso guitarist Paco Peña talks about creating a new production for the Festival. Saturday 4 September 2.30pm
Alonzo King Lines Ballet Choreographer Alonzo King, a distinctive voice in dance, talks about how he embraces a global perspective on stage.
The Hub Tickets £6.50 1 hour approximately eif.co.uk/conversations
Sunday 29 August 5.00pm Supported by
Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust
Behind the Scenes
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Behind the Scenes These works-in-progress offer a glimpse behind the creative processes involved in taking an idea from page to stage and an opportunity to witness the beginning of new works. Each of these companies and artists was awarded the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize in either 2008 or 2009 in order to develop new ideas or directions.
Three New Ideas
Little Matter
From a science fiction string quartet on a sleepover to a Russian structuralist analysis of fairy tales, from Buddhist meditations on loving kindness to a Palestinian bordello in 1970 – David Leddy takes you on a journey through new ideas. In a lecture demonstration, with actors performing key scenes, this workshop showcases the trademark eclecticism of this Scottish writer and director.
The River People has developed a distinct style of theatre with puppetry, folk storytelling and live music. Little Matter, a performance work-in-progress, explores an individual’s place in the universe and the search for the self. This unique take on the meaning of life combines the influences of mythology, quantum physics and William Blake.
A presentation by David Leddy
Tuesday 17 August 2.30pm
The River People
Sunday 22 & Monday 23 August 5.00pm & 6.30pm 30 minutes approximately
Steven Osborne on Improvisation International classical pianist Steven Osborne performs with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Festival 2010. In this lecture demonstration Steven explores the relevance of improvisation to classical musicians. Monday 16 August 2.30pm 1 hour approximately
zakir Hussain Master of the Tabla
1 hour 30 minutes approximately
The Mass Observation Project Inspector Sands
In 1937, a wide ranging project called ‘Mass Observation’ was set up by the UK Government. It investigated ‘the science of the everyday’ by observing and recording the lives of ordinary people in Britain, down to the very last detail. In 2010, this research continues. With bold and evocative lighting and sound, young London based theatre company, Inspector Sands, draws on this rich archive to offer the first glimpse of an ambitious new project. Thursday 19 & Friday 20 August 2.30pm 40 minutes approximately
Dracula
Belt Up Theatre
This adaptation of Bram Stoker’s chilling tale emerges from the Victorian obsession with the occult. A daring re-imagining of a classic and a bold investigation into the concept of storytelling with the added bite of shoddy commercial showmanship. Belt Up Theatre’s practice explores the possibilities of immersive theatre.
One of the world leading tabla players, Zakir Hussain appears with Alonzo King Lines Ballet in Festival 2010. In this lecture demonstration Zakir offers rare insights into the music and culture of this iconic instrument. Friday 27 August 2.30pm 1 hour approximately
New Worlds New Horizons Education and Outreach The Festival’s education and outreach programme explores the extraordinary cultural diversity of performers and ideas in Festival 2010. Very different cultural landscapes, belief systems and artforms from throughout the ‘New World’ inspire the work we do with schools and colleges across Edinburgh and offer young people new horizons. Over 1,000 young people will take part in workshops and projects this year and the exhibitions and installations in The Hub throughout August are the result of their own, personal, Festival experiences. The Festival also runs vocational development programmes in the arts. Visit eif.co.uk/education
Sharing the Festival Every year we aim to introduce Festival performers to wider and more diverse audiences. This year, in addition to their performance in The Queen’s Hall Series, musicians of the Simón Bolívar String Quartet will spend several days taking part in workshops at The Hub with children and young people from throughout Scotland.
Wednesday 25 August 2.30pm Thursday 26 August 12 noon & 2.30pm 1 hour 15 minutes approximately
The Hub
The Hub
Tickets £6.50
Tickets £6.50
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Supported by
Festival City
Photo: Richard Campbell
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Festival venues
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The Hub Edinburgh’s Festival Centre, Royal Mile
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Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Nicolson Street
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The Queen’s Hall Clerk Street
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The Edinburgh Playhouse Greenside Place
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Royal Lyceum Theatre Grindlay Street
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usher Hall Lothian Road
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Ross Theatre Princes Street Gardens
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King’s Theatre Leven Street
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Greyfriars Kirk Greyfriars Place
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Jazz Festival Box Office The Hub
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Tattoo Office Market Street
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Festival Fringe Box Office Royal Mile
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Edinburgh International Book Festival Charlotte Square
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Festival of Politics Scottish Parliament
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Tourist Information Centre Princes Street
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Booking Information
How to Book and Access How to Book Online eif.co.uk Telephone 0131 473 2000 Overseas +44 (0)131 473 2000 Hub Tickets, The Hub, Castlehill, Edinburgh EH1 2NE
Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert (page 47) Due to the popularity of this event we have the following special arrangements. Ross Theatre (seated) £26 on sale with all other Festival tickets. Princes Street Gardens (standing) £11 on sale in three ways. Postal Ballot – send an application (limited to six per customer) with card details or a cheque, payable to Hub Tickets, include a stamped addressed envelope (or add 60p for postage) and send to – Hub Tickets, The Hub, Castlehill, Edinburgh EH1 2NE. Your ballot application should be separate from other bookings and the closing date is Monday 24 May. Online – more tickets released for sale at 11.00am on Monday 26 July (limited to four per customer) at eif.co.uk In person – final tickets on sale only at The Hub (limited to four per customer) from 10.00am on Sunday 29 August.
Wednesday 17 March Priority booking opens for Festival Benefactors, Patrons and Friends by fax, post and online. Saturday 27 March Public booking opens by telephone, post, in person and online.
Hub Tickets Opening Hours Saturday 27 March – Thursday 29 July Monday to Saturday 10.00am to 5.00pm Friday 30 July – Saturday 4 September Monday to Saturday 9.00am to 7.30pm Sunday 10.00am to 7.30pm Sunday 5 September 1.00pm to 6.00pm
Buy your tickets at our venues
Access Information and Discounts The Edinburgh International Festival welcomes disabled visitors. An Access Guide with full details of all facilities for disabled visitors is available on request and both the Access Guide and the Festival brochure are available in Braille, audio and large print formats. Wheelchair users, people with severe mobility difficulties or with visual or hearing impairment will be sold seats/spaces at £10 in the area of the venue most appropriate to their needs (dress circle normally excluded). This discount also applies to a companion. For more information or to claim an access discount please call the Access line +44 (0)131 473 2089 or email access@eif.co.uk To enable us to determine your requirements and assist you fully we are unable to offer this service through our online booking process. British Sign Language Interpreted Performance Porgy and Bess (page 6) Tuesday 17 August 7.15pm Caledonia (page 29) Wednesday 25 August 7.30pm
You can buy tickets for any Festival events from the Edinburgh Playhouse and The Queen’s Hall from Monday 29 March and from the Usher Hall, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh and the Royal Lyceum Theatre from Friday 30 April.
Audio Described Performances
The King’s Theatre and Greyfriars Kirk box offices open an hour before the performance.
Vieux Carré (page 25) Tuesday 24 August 7.30pm
Ticket Collection We can post your tickets to you or you can collect them from the venue from one hour before the performance. You can collect your tickets from Hub Tickets until lunchtime on the day of the performance and until the evening before for morning and afternoon events.
The Sun Also Rises (page 24) Monday 16 August 7.30pm Porgy and Bess (page 6) Tuesday 17 August 7.15pm Água (page 20) Sunday 29 August 7.30pm Audio Described Performance with Touch Tour Caledonia (page 29) Wednesday 25 August Touch Tour 6.30pm Performance 7.30pm Captioned Performance Caledonia (page 29) Tuesday 24 August 7.30pm Performances with English Supertitles Montezuma (page 8) Bliss (page 12) Sin Sangre (page 30) The Man Who Fed Butterflies (page 31) Diciembre (page 33)
Prices
Discounts and Ticket Prices +44 (0)131 473 2000
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Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Porgy and Bess, Bliss Dress Circle £64 £56 £40 £36 £14† Centre Stalls £56 £50 Front/side stalls £40 £26 Rear stalls £36* £26* Upper circle £40 £36 £26 £14 Grupo Corpo, Alonzo King Lines Ballet Dress Circle £28.50 £26 £18 £10† Centre stalls £28.50 £26 Front/side stalls £18 £15 Rear stalls £20 £15 The Edinburgh Playhouse
Ticket Discounts Young People and Students – Half Price Now Young people can buy any ticket at 50% off on selected performances when booking opens on Saturday 27 March. All young people under the age of 18 and all students in full time education.
The Tempest, Birds with Skymirrors, Água, Paco Peña Grand Circle £28.50 £26 £20 £16 Stalls £26 £22 £16 £12 £10 £8 The Gospel at Colonus Grand Circle £30 £25 £15 £10 Stalls £30 £25 £18 £15 £10 £8 King’s Theatre
Standby – Half Price from Wednesday 4 August
Montezuma Grand Circle £35 £28 £12† Stalls £35 £28 £25 £20 Upper Circle £18 £12
50% off all tickets for senior citizens, unemployed people, Young Scot, Equity and MU card holders from 4 August.
Caledonia Grand Circle £27 £24 £18† Stalls £27 £22 £18 £12 Upper Circle £18 £12
Are you under 26? Tickets for only £8 on the day
Sin Sangre, The Man Who Fed Butterflies Grand Circle £27 £24 £18 £12† Stalls £27 £22 £18 £12
Pay only £8 on the day for selected performances. Available to everyone 26 years old and under. Proof of age is required and you have to buy them in person. Group Bookings We are delighted to offer great benefits on bookings for 10 or more tickets. – 10% discount on Festival tickets for selected performances – The opportunity to make flexible ticket reservations – Dedicated Group Sales Staff to assist you with your ticket order
Royal Lyceum Theatre The Sun Also Rises, Songs of Ascension, Diciembre Grand Circle £27 £24 £16 £10† Stalls £27 £24 £18* £10† Stalls boxes £18 Upper circle £18 £16 £10 Vieux Carré Grand Circle £27 £24 £16 £10† Stalls £27 £24 £18 £10† Stalls boxes £18 usher Hall
Please call +44 (0)131 473 2089 or email groupbookings@eif.co.uk
The Opening Concert (no OG) Circle £46 £42 £33 Stalls £46 £39 £33 £18 Upper circle £20 £18 £12.50 £10
Treasures and Traditions at Greyfriars
Kronos Quartet (no OG), Joyce DiDonato, Scottish National Jazz Orchestra (no OG), Susan Graham Circle £32 £25 £14 Stalls £32 £25 £20 £18 Upper circle £18 £14 £12.50 £10 £8 Organ gallery £10 (please note not available 21, 26 August)
Buy all 7 concerts and save 20% on each ticket.
Ticket Prices The Queen’s Hall Centre stalls £27 Rear centre stalls £25 Side stalls £20 £17 Centre gallery £25 Side gallery £20 Limited view £10† No view seats £7† The Hub Explorations, Conversations, Behind the Scenes £6.50 Sarah Connolly, John Etheridge, James Crabb £17.50
Rhapsodies in Red, White and Blue (no OG), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Idomeneo (no OG), La fanciulla del West (no OG), The Indian Queen, L’heure espagnole (no OG), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC SSO, Minnesota Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (31 August no OG), Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Symphony No 8 (no OG) Circle £40 £35 £17 Stalls £40 £35 £28 £24 £17 Upper circle £20 £17 £12 £10 Organ gallery (OG) £12 Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert Ross Theatre seated £26, Princes Street Gardens standing £11
Greyfriars Kirk All seats £17.50
* Supertitles not visible from these seats † 60 seats or fewer please give an alternative where possible OG Organ Gallery
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Festival Diary
Venue
Fri 13 August
The Queen’s Hall Clerk Street
Sat 14 August
Sun 15 August
Mon 16 August
Tue 17 August
Wed 18 August
11.00am
11.00am
11.00am
11.00am
Jonathan Biss (p48)
Magdalena Kožená, Private Musicke (p49)
Škampa Quartet, Melvyn Tan (p49)
Trio Zimmermann (p50)
R WS T H WC C
The Hub Castlehill LF WS T WC C
2.30pm
2.30pm
2.30pm
2.30pm
2.30pm
What do we mean by ‘Postcolonial Art’? (p58)
Creative Innovation (p58)
Steven Osborne on Improvisation (p61)
Three New Ideas (p61)
The Exiled Voice (p58)
5.00pm
5.00pm
Conversations: Elevator Repair Service (p60)
Conversations: Joyce DiDonato (p60)
5.00pm Conversations: Montezuma (p60)
Greyfriars Kirk Greyfriars Place
5.45pm
5.45pm
5.45pm
Fiesta Criolla (p46)
The Tallis Scholars (p46)
Sacred Music from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro (p46)
L WS WC
King’s Theatre Leven Street
7.15pm
7.15pm
7.15pm
Montezuma (p9)
Montezuma (p9)
Montezuma (p9)
R WS H WC
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Nicolson Street
7.15pm
7.15pm
7.15pm
Porgy and Bess (p6)
Porgy and Bess (p6)
Porgy and Bess (p6)
Opéra de Lyon
Opéra de Lyon
Opéra de Lyon
L R LF WS H WC C
The Edinburgh Playhouse Greenside Place
8.00pm
8.00pm
8.00pm
2.30pm
The Tempest (p15)
The Tempest (p15)
Lemi Ponifasio/Mau
Lemi Ponifasio/Mau
Birds with Skymirrors (p15)
Birds with Skymirrors (p15)
Lemi Ponifasio/Mau
Lemi Ponifasio/Mau
R WS H WC C
Royal Lyceum Theatre Grindlay Street
7.30pm
11.00am
7.30pm
2.00pm
The Sun Also Rises (p24)
The Sun Also Rises (p24)
The Sun Also Rises (p24)
The Sun Also Rises (p24)
Elevator Repair Service
Elevator Repair Service
Elevator Repair Service
Elevator Repair Service
7.30pm
L LF WS T H WC C
The Sun Also Rises (p24) Elevator Repair Service
usher Hall Lothian Road
8.00pm
7.30pm
8.00pm
8.00pm
8.00pm
8.00pm
El Niño (p5)
L L F WS T WC C
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rhapsodies in Red, White and Blue (p34)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra 01 (p35)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra 02 (p35)
Cleveland Orchestra 01 (p36)
Cleveland Orchestra 02 (p37)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Sakari Oramo Conductor
Sakari Oramo Conductor
Franz Welser-Möst Conductor
Franz Welser-Möst Conductor
James Conlon Conductor
Access Facilities Key:
Gunther Schuller Conductor
P Designated Parking L Level Access T Induction Loop H Infra Red System
R Ramped Access LF Lift WS Wheelchair Spaces in Auditorium WC Accessible Toilets C Accessible Catering/Bar
Festival Diary Venue
Thu 19 August
Fri 20 August
Sat 21 August
The Queen’s Hall Clerk Street
11.00am
11.00am
Edicson Ruiz, Sergio Tiempo (p50)
Pavel Haas Quartet (p51)
2.30pm
2.30pm
12noon
The Mass Observation Project (p61)
The Mass Observation Project (p61)
Conversations: Kronos Quartet (p60)
5.00pm
9.30pm
Conversations: Grupo Corpo (p60)
Sarah Connolly and John Horler (p45)
R WS T H WC C
The Hub Castlehill LF WS T WC C
Mon 23 August
Tue 24 August
11.00am
11.00am
11.00am
Christianne Stotijn, Joseph Breinl (p51)
Simon Keenlyside, Malcolm Martineau (p52)
Pavel Haas Quartet (p52)
2.30pm
2.30pm
12noon
Pacific Solutions (p58)
Conversations: The Wooster Group (p60)
Conversations: The Sixteen (p60)
5.00pm
2.30pm
Little Matter (p61)
The Darien Venture (p59)
6.30pm
5.00pm
Little Matter (p61)
Conversations: Caledonia (p60)
9.30pm
Sun 22 August
5.00pm Little Matter (p61) 6.30pm Little Matter (p61)
Sarah Connolly and John Horler (p45)
Greyfriars Kirk Greyfriars Place
5.45pm
5.45pm
5.45pm
5.45pm
Bolivian Baroque (p46)
The Sixteen (p47)
Latin American Vespers (p47)
Music of Fire and Air (p47)
L WS WC
King’s Theatre Leven Street
7.30pm
2.30pm
7.30pm
Caledonia (p28)
Caledonia (p28)
Caledonia (p28)
R WS H WC
National Theatre of Scotland
National Theatre of Scotland
National Theatre of Scotland
7.30pm Caledonia (p28) National Theatre of Scotland
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Nicolson Street
8.00pm
8.00pm
8.00pm
8.00pm
Grupo Corpo (p16)
Grupo Corpo (p16)
Grupo Corpo (p16)
Grupo Corpo (p16)
L R LF WS H WC C
The Edinburgh Playhouse Greenside Place
7.30pm
2.30pm
2.30pm
The Gospel at Colonus (p26)
The Gospel at Colonus (p26)
The Gospel at Colonus (p26)
7.30pm
R WS H WC C
The Gospel at Colonus (p26)
Royal Lyceum Theatre Grindlay Street
7.30pm
7.30pm
7.30pm
7.30pm
Vieux Carré (p25)
Vieux Carré (p25)
Vieux Carré (p25)
Vieux Carré (p25)
The Wooster Group
The Wooster Group
The Wooster Group
The Wooster Group
L LF WS T H WC C
usher Hall Lothian Road L L F WS T WC C
Events Key:
Opera Music
8.00pm
7.00pm
8.00pm
8.00pm
7.00pm
8.00pm
Russian National Orchestra (p34)
Idomeneo (p10)
Kronos Quartet (p44)
Joyce DiDonato, David Zobel (p43)
La fanciulla del West (p10)
The Indian Queen (p11)
Mikhail Pletnev Conductor
Concert performance
Concert performance
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
The Orchestra of Scottish Opera
The Sixteen
Sir Charles Mackerras Conductor
Franceso Corti Conductor
Dance Discussions
Theatre
Concert performance
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Harry Christophers Conductor
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Festival Diary
Venue
Wed 25 August
Thu 26 August
Fri 27 August
Sat 28 August
The Queen’s Hall Clerk Street
11.00am
11.00am
11.00am
11.00am
11.00am
Gerald Finley, Julius Drake (p53)
Midori, Ozgur Aydin (p53)
Nash Ensemble (p54)
Llyˆr Williams (p54)
Joan Rodgers, Roderick Williams, Roger Vignoles (p55)
The Hub Castlehill
2.30pm
12noon
2.30pm
2.30pm
2.30pm
9.30pm
Dracula (p61)
Dracula (p61)
5.00pm
2.30pm
Global perspectives and empathy (p59)
New voices from the landscape (p59)
James Crabb (p45)
LF WS T WC C
Zakir Hussain Master of the Tabla (p61)
Conversations: Midori (p60)
Dracula (p61)
5.00pm
9.30pm
5.00pm
Conversations: Gunther Schuller (p60)
John Etheridge (p45)
Conversations: Alonzo King Lines Ballet (p60)
R WS T H WC C
5.00pm Conversations: Meredith Monk (p60)
Sun 29 August
9.30pm
9.30pm
John Etheridge, Sweet Chorus (p45)
James Crabb and George Vassilev (p45)
Mon 30 August
Greyfriars Kirk Greyfriars Place L WS WC
King’s Theatre Leven Street
2.30pm
2.30pm
8.00pm
8.00pm
8.00pm
Caledonia (p28)
Caledonia (p28)
Sin Sangre (p30)
Sin Sangre (p30)
R WS H WC
National Theatre of Scotland
National Theatre of Scotland
Teatro Cinema
The Man Who Fed Butterflies (p31) Teatro Cinema
Teatro Cinema
7.30pm Caledonia (p28) National Theatre of Scotland
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Nicolson Street
8.00pm
8.00pm
8.00pm
8.00pm
Alonzo King Lines Ballet (p18)
Alonzo King Lines Ballet (p18)
Alonzo King Lines Ballet (p18)
Alonzo King Lines Ballet (p18)
L R LF WS H WC C
The Edinburgh Playhouse Greenside Place R WS H WC C
7.30pm
7.30pm
7.30pm
Água (p20)
Água (p20)
Água (p20)
Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal
Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal
Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal
Royal Lyceum Theatre Grindlay Street L LF WS T H WC C
8.00pm
8.00pm
8.00pm
Songs of Ascension (p32)
Songs of Ascension (p32)
Songs of Ascension (p32)
Meredith Monk Company, The Elysian Quartet, Edinburgh University Singers
Meredith Monk Company, The Elysian Quartet, Edinburgh University Singers
Meredith Monk Company, The Elysian Quartet, Edinburgh University Singers
usher Hall Lothian Road
7.30pm
8.00pm
7.30pm
7.30pm
7.30pm
8.00pm
L’heure espagnole (p11) Concert performance
Scottish Chamber Orchestra (p40)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (p40)
Minnesota Orchestra (p42)
L L F WS T WC C
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra (p44)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 01 (p38)
Gunther Schuller Conductor
Robin Ticciati Conductor
Donald Runnicles Conductor
Royal Scottish National Orchestra Stéphane Denève Conductor
Access Facilities Key:
P Designated Parking L Level Access T Induction Loop H Infra Red System
R Ramped Access LF Lift WS Wheelchair Spaces in Auditorium WC Accessible Toilets C Accessible Catering/Bar
Osmo Vänskä Conductor
Mariss Jansons Conductor
Festival Diary
69.
Venue
Tue 31 August
Wed 1 September
Thu 2 September
Fri 3 September
Sat 4 September
Sun 5 September
The Queen’s Hall Clerk Street
11.00am
11.00am
11.00am
11.00am
11.00am
Steven Osborne (p55)
Ars Nova, Paul Hillier (p56)
Tokyo Quartet, David Watkin (p56)
Duo Sol (p57)
Simón Bolívar String Quartet (p57)
Princes Street Gardens
R WS T H WC C
L WS WC 9.00pm Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert (p47) Scottish Chamber Orchestra
The Hub Castlehill LF WS T WC C
2.30pm
5.00pm
2.30pm
2.30pm
A Scotsman’s legacy to Australasia (p59)
Conversations: Susan Graham (p60)
Reflecting silenced narratives (p59)
Conversations: Paco Peña (p60)
5.00pm
5.00pm
Conversations: Teatro Cinema (p60)
Conversations: Teatro en el Blanco (p60)
Greyfriars Kirk Greyfriars Place L WS WC
King’s Theatre Leven Street
8.00pm
8.00pm
8.00pm
2.00pm
Sin Sangre (p30)
Sin Sangre (p30)
R WS H WC
Teatro Cinema
The Man Who Fed Butterflies (p31)
The Man Who Fed Butterflies (p31)
Teatro Cinema
Teatro Cinema
Teatro Cinema 8.00pm The Man Who Fed Butterflies (p31) Teatro Cinema
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Nicolson Street L R LF WS H WC C
The Edinburgh Playhouse Greenside Place
7.15pm
7.15pm
Bliss (p12)
Bliss (p12)
Opera Australia BBC Symphony Orchestra
Opera Australia BBC Symphony Orchestra
8.00pm
8.00pm
8.00pm
Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company (p22)
Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company (p22)
Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company (p22)
R WS H WC C
Royal Lyceum Theatre Grindlay Street
8.00pm
8.00pm
2.30pm
Diciembre (p33)
Diciembre (p33)
Diciembre (p33)
Teatro en el Blanco
Teatro en el Blanco
Teatro en el Blanco 8.00pm
L LF WS T H WC C
Diciembre (p33) Teatro en el Blanco
usher Hall Lothian Road L L F WS T WC C
8.00pm
7.30pm
7.30pm
8.00pm
8.00pm
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 02 (p38)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra 01 (p41)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra 02 (p41)
Susan Graham, Malcolm Martineau (p43)
Mahler Symphony No 8 (p42)
Mariss Jansons Conductor
Vladimir Ashkenazy Conductor
Vladimir Ashkenazy Conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Donald Runnicles Conductor
Events Key:
Opera Music
Dance Discussions
Theatre
Clark Rundell Conductor
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