#EIF2026
The Festival Theatre takes on its distinctive 2026 Edinburgh International Festival identity as the city prepares to welcome in a few weeks time, performers and audiences from around the world. #edinburgh #EIF2026 #FestivalTheatre
July 4, 2026 at 6:35 AM
All Rise – Edinburgh International Festival 2026 🎶

A spectacular opening at the Usher Hall: Wynton Marsalis’s All Rise, conducted by James Gaffigan, brought together more than 200 jazz, orchestral and choral performers for an extraordinary night of music.

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Edinburgh International Festival 2026 – All Rise at the Usher Hall
The opening concert of the 2026 Edinburgh International Festival at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall on Saturday 8 August brought more than 200 musicians and singers together for a performance of Wynton Marsali...
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August 9, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Minister Hodgson is attending the International Energy Agency #EIF2026 Ministerial, highlighting Canada’s strengths as an energy superpower and a stable, reliable destination for investment in energy, natural resources and innovation.
February 18, 2026 at 10:13 PM
"Yet for all its sensory splendour, the narrative remains elusive... its metaphors accumulate like fog."

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#EIF2026 #Ihsane
EIF Review: Ihsane
At Edinburgh, Cherkaoui’s Ihsane is a dazzling sensory feast of Moroccan culture, yet its elusive narrative leaves audiences admiring from the outside.
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August 19, 2026 at 5:02 PM
"Mere Mortals is an impressive vision of the AI age. This may be what the AI age is doing to us, making us colder, overloaded and increasingly alike."

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#EIF2026 #Dance
EIF Review: Mere Mortals
In Mere Mortals, Aszure Barton turns artificial intelligence into a sleek, hypnotic ballet—yet amid the electronic fury, human warmth proves harder to find.
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September 10, 2026 at 5:44 PM
"RÓIS does not treat keening as museum folklore. She makes it live again — high, piercing and strangely cathartic, more invocation than wail."

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#EIF2026 #LiveMusic
EIF Review: RÓIS
Veiled in black, RÓIS resurrects the ancient Irish art of keening, weaving raw grief into ethereal electronics, dark ritual, and surprising post-punk energy.
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September 10, 2026 at 5:31 PM
"The Colin Currie Group brought their all to delivering this unique performance and deserved every bit of their loyal audience’s noisy appreciation..."

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#EIF2026 #ClassicalMusic
EIF Review: Colin Currie Group plays Steve Reich
At Usher Hall, the Colin Currie Group plays Steve Reich with virtuosic flair, revealing how easily hypnotic minimalism curdles into maddening repetition.
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September 4, 2026 at 6:30 PM
"The choreography is hypnotic rather than complex... drawing us into the suspended experience of waiting for something that may never arrive."

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#EIF2026 #Theatre
EIF Review: When Prophecy Fails
Groupwork turns a landmark 1950s cognitive dissonance study into When Prophecy Fails, a hypnotic physical theatre piece on the human logic of belief.
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August 29, 2026 at 11:46 AM
"Rejecting traditional Western staging, the Haifa-based ensemble trades psychological realism for a collective storytelling perspective..."

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#EIF2026 #Theatre
EIF Review: Al-Sirah Al-Hilaliyyah
Khashabi Theatre’s Al-Sirah Al-Hilaliyyah opens with intimate warmth rather than distant spectacle. Creators Bashar Murkus and Khulood Basel set an inviting tone as actors greet audience members like ...
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August 29, 2026 at 9:43 AM
"These episodes bring a wonderfully odd sense of humour to the performance. Their animated strangeness gives Koo a playful way into themes..."

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#EIF2026 #Theatre
EIF Review: Haribo Kimchi
In Jaha Koo’s poignant Haribo Kimchi, street food, singing puppets, and memory collide in a tender, multisensory meditation on identity and home.
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August 28, 2026 at 7:24 PM
"Vocalist Dilek Türkan was a standout highlight: powerful yet immensely tender, her soaring, silky timbre brought a lyrical clarity that held the room spellbound."

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#EIF2026 #Music
EIF Review: Derya Türkan & Friends
At The Hub, Derya Türkan revives 17th-century Ottoman manuscripts, conjuring an intuitive, transcendent evening of shimmering cross-cultural alchemy.
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August 28, 2026 at 7:21 PM
"Ólafsson takes over the piano with complete command and yet with a clarity and lightness of touch which is mesmerising."

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#EIF2026 #ClassicalMusic
EIF Review: Víkingur Ólafsson plays Bach & Beethoven
At the Usher Hall, Víkingur Ólafsson offers a mesmerizing, uninterrupted masterclass through Bach and Beethoven, displaying rare stamina and grace.
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August 25, 2026 at 9:21 AM
"The experience becomes increasingly ceremonial, moving between moments of seduction, joy, grief, brutality and contemplation."

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#EIF2026 #Ihsane
EIF Review: Ihsane
At the 2026 EIF, Yuxi Jiang finds Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Ihsane weaves personal grief & cultural history into an extraordinary dance ritual.
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August 21, 2026 at 9:41 PM
"Osborne introduced the programme with a warm tribute... remarking on Brendel’s aversion to anything too showy."

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#EIF2026 #ClassicalMusic
EIF Review: Steven Osborne
At the Queen’s Hall, pianist Steven Osborne honours the late Alfred Brendel with an exquisite Schubert recital of deceptive simplicity and deep feeling.
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August 20, 2026 at 12:57 PM
"All sang to the highest standard. Louise Alder brought a real nobility to her portrayal of the grieving Donna Anna with a lovely evenness and depth of tone across her entire register."

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#EIF2026 #DonGiovanni
EIF Review: Mozart’s Don Giovanni
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Don Giovanni at the Edinburgh Festival pairs superb vocal elegance with Maxim Emelyanychev’s breathlessly brisk tempi.
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August 19, 2026 at 11:48 AM
"...transform Gesualdo’s complex vocal works into a fully staged dramatic experience... asking the audience: What do we do with the artistic heritage of monstrous people?"

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#EIF2026 #TheDeathOfGesualdo
EIF Review: Death of Gesualdo
At Queen’s Hall, The Gesualdo Six stage a striking theatrical concert, probing the unsettling gap between Carlo Gesualdo’s sublime art and his murderous life.
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August 19, 2026 at 11:59 AM
From Senegal, Lebanon and Iran, a new musical conversation, in which women take centre stage, is set to take place in Edinburgh.

#EIF2026 #BeyondTradition #AgaKhanMusic
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The Aga Khan Music Programme goes Beyond Tradition - Hyphen
A boundary-breaking ensemble from Senegal, Lebanon and Iran prepares to take to the Edinburgh Festival stage
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August 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
"I doubt anyone in the concert hall will forget this night in a hurry. It was everything anyone could possibly want."

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#EIF2026 #Dudamel #LAPhil
EIF Review: Beethoven 7 & Ortiz
At Usher Hall, Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil pair Beethoven’s rapturous magic with Gabriela Ortiz’s fiercely visceral Revolución diamantina.
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August 15, 2026 at 8:21 PM
"Wang is one of the piano world’s most rhythmically-driven performers, and she hammered away gleefully at the main theme with metronomic precision..."

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#EdFringe #EIF2026 #YujaWang
EIF Review: JLCO with Yuja Wang
High culture meets high swing as pianist Yuja Wang joins the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for a thrilling, genre-blurring Edinburgh premiere.
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August 14, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Le ministre Hodgson participe à la réunion ministérielle du #EIF2026 tenue par l’International Energy Agency où il vante le Canada en tant que superpuissance énergétique et destination stable et fiable où investir dans les domaines de l’énergie, des ressources naturelles et de l’innovation.
February 18, 2026 at 10:15 PM