Edinburgh International Festival 2010 Programme

We gratefully acknowledge support from the following:

Corporate FriendsBank of Scotland

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Caledonian Hilton

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Macdonald Holyrood Hotel

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Principal DonorsAmerican Friends of the Edinburgh International Festival

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Edinburgh International Festival Friends and Patrons

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The Miller Group Limited

Foreign Government SupportArts Victoria

Australian High Commission, London

CONACULTA

Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Edinburgh

Consulate General of Switzerland, Edinburgh

Consulate of the Kingdom of The Netherlands, Edinburgh

Culture Ireland

Embassy of Finland, London

Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands, London

Embassy of Mexico, United Kingdom

The Embassy of the United States of America, London

Government of Victoria, Australia

The Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh

Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, Estados Unidos Mexicanos

The United States Consulate General, Edinburgh

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Inverarity One To One (Ayala Champagne, Red Earth OZ wines)

Omni Centre Edinburgh

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Trusts & FoundationsThe Anglo Mexican Foundation

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Cruden Foundation Limited

The Peter Diamand Trust

The Evelyn Drysdale Charitable Trust

Garfield Weston Foundation

Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust

The Hamada Edinburgh Festival Foundation

The House Foundation

The Inches Carr Trust

Eda, Lady Jardine Charitable Trust

The Leverhulme Trust

The Morton Charitable Trust

The Negaunee Foundation

The Oppenheim Foundation

Risk Charitable Fund

The Stevenston Charitable Trust

Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain – SCFB

The Sym Charitable Trust

Thirkleby Trust

Edinburgh International Festival Society is registered as a company in Scotland (No SC024766) and as a Scottish Charity (No SC004694) Registered Address: The Hub, Castlehill, Edinburgh EH1 2NE

Grants

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Production Sponsors

Supported through the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund

Principal Supporters

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01.Contents

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Contents02 Discover the Festival Get the most out of your experience

04 Make Friends with the Festival And get great benefits

05 Opening Concert John Adams’s El Niño

06 Opera From Porgy and Bess to Bliss

14 Dance From New Zealand through Europe

via USA to Brazil

24 Theatre Gospel music, classic novels,

theatre meets cinema

34 Orchestras From Moscow, Cleveland and Amsterdam

43 Recitals Great American Mezzos

44 Jazz and Contemporary Music Guitars, trumpets, accordions and cellos

46 Treasures and Traditions at Greyfriars Baroque, renaissance and more

47 Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert Glorious music and fiery spectacle

48 The Queen’s Hall Series Intimate morning recitals

58 Explorations Debates and talks

60 Conversations Up close with artists

61 Behind the Scenes A creative glimpse

62 Festival City To help plan your Festival

64 Booking Information Find out about concession discounts

65 Prices Details of ticket prices

66 Festival Diary At a glance, events day by day

13 August – 5 September 2010

Welcome to Festival 2010Oceans 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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03.Discover the Festival

Value for money Festival shows from £6.50

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.

Festival Online

Get connected and follow us on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook or catch our video channel on YouTube. There’s even more on our website – sign up for your regular e-bulletin, plan your Festival with our online diary and buy tickets quickly and easily. Regular updates make it easy to stay on top of what’s happening. Visit us at eif.co.uk/interact

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

Easy Access?

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.

Buy the T-shirt!

Check out our souvenir store online at eif.co.uk/shop

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

– 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

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04. Make Friends with the Festival

Make Friends with the World’s Favourite Festival

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

Photo: José Luiz Pederneiras

Benefactor

Mr & Mrs James AndersonEwan and Christine BrownRoxane ClaytonJoscelyn FoxFrank HitchmanDonald and Louise MacDonaldJim and Isobel Stretton

Platinum Reserve

Richard BurnsGavin and Kate GemmellDavid McLellanAileen and Stephen NesbittKeith and Andrea Skeoch

Platinum Supporter

J AttiasGeoff and Mary Ball Katie BradfordThe Rt. Hon. Lord ClarkeLord and Lady CoulsfieldSue and Andy DoigJo and Alison ElliotClaire EndersAnne FaggionatoMr and Mrs Ted W FrisonRaymond and Anita GreenDavid and Judith HalkerstonShields and Carol HendersonAndré and Rosalie HoffmannJ Douglas HomePeter Horvath and Barnett Serchuk

Alan M JohnstonFred and Ann JohnstonNorman and Christine LesselsAlan MacfarlaneDuncan and Una McGhieJean and Roger MillerMr & Mrs R H MitchellMr Derek H MossAllan Myers AO QC and Maria Myers AONick and Julie ParkerLady PotterDonald and Brenda RennieSir Duncan Rice and Lady RiceMr Andrew and Mrs Carolyn RichmondRoss RobertsFiona and Ian Russell

Richard SimonCharles SmithAndrew and Becky SwanstonRobin and Sheila WightRuth WoodburnNeil and Philippa WoodcockMr Hedley G Wright

And others who prefer to remain anonymous

Legacy

Ronald Alexander Miller Mackenzie, FRICS

Edinburgh International Festival Benefactors and Patrons

MEMBERSHIP BEGINS AT JuST £50

05.Opening Concert

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra James Conlon Conductor Edinburgh Festival Chorus National Youth Choir of ScotlandChristopher Bell Chorus Master Mark Grey Sound designer Jessica Rivera SopranoKelley O’Connor Mezzo sopranoWillard White Baritone Theatre of Voices Paul Hillier Artistic directorRobin Blaze CountertenorDuncan Brickenden CountertenorRisto Joost Countertenor

Opening Concert

BY JOHN ADAMS

El Niño

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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.

Conductor James Conlon leads a wonderful cast in this extraordinary opener for Festival 2010.

‘This is Adams’s most powerful and affecting and sublimely assured music’ Los Angeles Times ‘a major masterpiece’ Philadelphia Enquirer

Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Monday 13 September at 7.00pm

Friday 13 August 8.00pm

Usher Hall

Tickets £46 £42 £39 £33 £20 £18 £12.50 £10

2 hours 30 minutes approximately

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06. Opera Lloyds TSB Scotland Inspiring Performances

THE GERSHWINS’®

Porgy and BessSM

Opéra de Lyon

Porgy Derrick LawrenceBess Janice Chandler-EtemeCrown Timothy Robert BlevinsSportin’ Life Ronald SammMaria LaVerne WilliamsClara Magali LégerJake Rodney ClarkeSerena Kristin LewisPeter Bernard AbervandanaFrazier Keel Watson Dancers from the Compagnie Montalvo-Hervieu and Théâtre National de Chaillot

William Eddins ConductorJosé Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu Direction José Montalvo Video conception Dominique Hervieu Costume designer Vincent Paoli Lighting designer José Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu Choreography

GEORGE GERSHWIN, DuBOSE AND DOROTHY HEYWARDAND IRA GERSHWIN

Sung in English

‘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

Lloyds TSB Scotland Inspiring Performances Opera 07.

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Saturday 14, Monday 16, Tuesday 17 August 7.15pm

Festival Theatre, Edinburgh

Tickets £64 £56 £50 £40 £36 £26 £14

3 hours approximately

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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-the-art video imagery and high energy dance. With their Montalvo-Hervieu dance company they had a huge Festival hit in 2007 with On Danse.

Sponsored by

BSL interpreted and audio described performance Tuesday 17 August 7.15pm

08. Opera

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Montezuma

Montezuma Flavio Oliver Eupaforice Lourdes Ambriz Tezeuco Rolegio Marín Pilpatoè Lucía Salas Erixene Lina López Fernando Cortes Adrián Popescu Navrès Christophe Carré Ensemble Elyma Gabriel Garrido Musical directorClaudio Valdés Kuri Director Herman Sorgeloos Set and lighting designer Ximena Fernández Costume designer

A co-production between Theater der Welt, Edinburgh International Festival, Teatro Real de Madrid, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Festival Internacional Cervantino and The Anglo Mexican Foundation.

Saturday 14, Sunday 15, Tuesday 17 August 7.15pm

King’s Theatre

Tickets £35 £28 £25 £20 £18 £12


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CARL HEINRICH GRAuNLIBRETTO BY FREDERICK II, KING OF PRUSSIA

Sung in Italian with English supertitles

‘How can I believe in a god that commands deceit? What can I think of a faith that teaches you to despise every man that differs from your opinion?’ Montezuma

Carl Heinrich Graun’s opera Montezuma bears witness to a clash of civilisations of epic proportions. In a devastating contest between old and new worlds, Montezuma becomes a battle for domination of one great empire over another.

The ornately gilded temples and palaces of the Aztec empire provide a magnificent backdrop for a spectacular welcome to the adventurer Fernando Cortes and his Spanish Conquistadors.

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.

Embassy of Mexico, united Kingdom and CONACuLTA and the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, Estados unidos Mexicanos

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Opera in Concert 10.

Monday 23 August 7.00pm

Usher Hall

Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10


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La fanciulla del West(The Girl of the Golden West)GIACOMO PuCCINI

Concert performance sung in Italian

Minnie Susan BullockDick Johnson Marcus HaddockJack Rance Juha uusitaloAshby Brindley SherrattNick Colin JudsonSonora Roland WoodWowkle 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.


Usher Hall

Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10


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IdomeneoWOLFGANG AMADEuS MOzART

Concert performance sung in Italian

Idomeneo Kurt StreitIdamante Joyce DiDonato Ilia Rosemary JoshuaElettra Emma BellArbace Rainer TrostSacerdote 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.

Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Saturday 18 September at 6.00pm

The Binks Trust The Stevenston Charitable Trust

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The Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh

With additional support from

Opera in Concert 11.

Wednesday 25 August 7.30pm

Usher Hall

Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10


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L’heure espagnoleMAuRICE RAVEL

Concert performance sung in French

Chabrier EspagneIbert Escales Ravel L’heure espagnole Concepcion Sophie Koch Ramiro Johannes Weisser Gonzalve Gordon Gietz Don Inigo Christopher Purves Torquemada Keith Lewis Royal Scottish National Orchestra Stéphane Denève Conductor

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.

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.

Ronald Alexander Miller Mackenzie, FRICS

Tuesday 24 August 8.00pm

Usher Hall

Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10


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The Indian QueenHENRY PuRCELL

Concert performance sung in English

Daniel Purcell The Masque of HymenHenry Purcell Come, ye sons of artHenry Purcell The Indian Queen Gillian Keith SopranoRobin Blaze CountertenorJohn Mark Ainsley TenorAllan Clayton TenorRoderick Williams Bass The Sixteen Harry Christophers 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.

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.

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Opera 12.

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BlissAN OPERA BY BRETT DEAN AND AMANDA HOLDENBASED ON THE NOVEL BY PETER CAREY

Sung in English with English supertitles

Opera Australia

BBC Symphony Orchestra

European Premiere

Harry Joy Peter Coleman-WrightBetty Merlyn QuaifeHoney B Lorina GoreAlex Barry RyanDavid David CorcoranLucy Taryn FiebigJohnny Kanen Breen Elgar Howarth Conductor Neil Armfield DirectorKate Champion ChoreographerBrian Thomson Set designerAlice Babidge Costume designer Nigel Levings Lighting designer

Please note this production contains coarse language and adult themes. It is not recommended for children.

Thursday 2, Saturday 4 September 7.15pm


Tickets £64 £56 £50 £40 £36 £26 £14


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‘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

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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 15.

Lemi Ponifasio MAu

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.

Birds with Skymirrors

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.

Tuesday 17 August 8.00pm Wednesday 18 August 2.30pm

The Edinburgh Playhouse

Tickets £28.50 £26 £22 £20 £16 £12 £10 £8

1 hour 30 minutes approximately

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Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 August 8.00pm


Tickets £28.50 £26 £22 £20 £16 £12 £10 £8


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‘An impressive choreographic tour de force.’ Le Soir

‘Clear. Beautiful. Masterful’ Lumiere

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Dance 16.

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.

Grupo Corpo

‘exuberant, ecstatic, fierce’ This Week in New York

Friday 20 – Monday 23 August 8.00pm


Tickets £28.50 £26 £20 £18 £15 £10


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ParabeloRodrigo Pederneiras ChoreographerTom zé and zé Miguel Wisnik MusicFernando Velloso and Paulo Pederneiras Set designFreusa zechmeister Costume designerPaulo Pederneiras 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.

OnqotôRodrigo Pederneiras ChoreographerCaetano Veloso and José Miguel Wisnik MusicFreusa zechmeister Costume designerPaulo Pederneiras Set and lighting designer

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!

Dance Lloyds TSB Scotland Inspiring Performances 18.

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.

‘Hyperkinetic… exceptional’The New Yorker

‘Lines Ballet is a vision that remains inscribed in memory’Le Monde

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Lloyds TSB Scotland Inspiring Performances Dance 19.

Dust and LightAlonzo King ChoreographerFrancis Poulenc and Arcangelo Corelli MusicAxel Morgenthaler Lighting designerRobert Rosenwasser Costume designer

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.

Thursday 26 – Sunday 29 August 8.00pm


Tickets £28.50 £26 £20 £18 £15 £10

1 hour 45 minutes

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RasaAlonzo King Choreographerzakir Hussain TablaKala Ramnath Violin, voice

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.

Léan Scully EIF Fund

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Dance 21.

‘the most influential figure in European contemporary dance for the past 30 years’The Daily Telegraph

‘basically reinvented dance.’ William Forsythe

Friday 27 – Sunday 29 August 7.30pm


Tickets £28.50 £26 £22 £20 £16 £12 £10 £8


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Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal

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.

ÁguaPina Bausch Choreographer Peter Pabst Set and video designer Marion Cito Costume designerMatthias Burkert and Andreas Eisenschneider Musical collaboration

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Audio described performance Sunday 29 August 7.30pm

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Quimeras (Chimeras)

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.

Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company

‘flamenco at its finest – modern, sophisticated and tantalising’ The Evening Standard

‘Peña’s technique was flawless’ Los Angeles Times

Thursday 2 – Saturday 4 September 8.00pm


Tickets £28.50 £26 £22 £20 £16 £12 £10 £8


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The Sun Also Rises BASED ON THE NOVEL BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY

World Premiere

Elevator Repair Service

John Collins DirectorDavid zinn Set and costumesMark Barton LightsMatt Tierney and Ben Williams Sound

The first world war is over, but some battles still rage on.

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.

Saturday 14 – Monday 16 August 7.30pm, Sunday 15 August 11.00am, Tuesday 17 August 2.00pm

Royal Lyceum Theatre

Tickets £27 £24 £18 £16 £10


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Vieux Carré By Tennessee Williams

Saturday 21 – Tuesday 24 August 7.30pm


Tickets £27 £24 £18 £16 £10


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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

‘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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Please note this production contains adult themes.

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Audio described performance Tuesday 24 August 7.30pm

26. Theatre

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 PianoButch Heyward OrganLeroy Clouden Drums Lee Breuer Adaptor and directorBob Telson Composer and musical directorAlison Yerxa Set designerAdam Larsen Video projection designJason Boyd Lighting designerRon Lorman Sound designer

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Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 August 7.30pm, Sunday 22 & Monday 23 August 2.30pm


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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.

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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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


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Caledonia BY ALISTAIR BEATON

World Premiere

‘Speculation buys up, in a very practical way, the intelligence of those involved.’ John Kenneth Galbraith 1993

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.

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.

A co-production between the Edinburgh International Festival and the National Theatre of Scotland.

Supported through the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund

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BSL interpreted and audio described performance Wednesday 25 August 7.30pm

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TeatroCinema

Saturday 28 & Monday 30 August, Wednesday 1 & Friday 3 September 8.00pm

King’s Theatre

Tickets £27 £24 £22 £18 £12


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Sin Sangre(Without Blood) FROM ALESSANDRO BARICCOBY DAuNO TóTORO, LAuRA PIzARRO, JuAN CARLOS zAGAL AND DIEGO FONTECILLA

Performed in Spanish with English supertitles

Juan Carlos zagal DirectorRodrigo Bazáes Art directorLoreto Monsalve Costume designerLuis Alcaide Technical directorJuan Carlos zagal Original musicDauno 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.

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.

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Sunday 29 August, Thursday 2 & Saturday 4 September 8.00pm, Saturday 4 September 2.00pm

King’s Theatre

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Juan Carlos zagal DirectorJosé Pedro Pizarro Art directorMónica Navarro Costume designerLuis Alcaide Technical directorJuan Carlos zagal Original musicDauno Tótoro and Juan Carlos zagal Film directors Cast Laura Pizarro, Juan Carlos zagal, Bernardita Montero, Cristian Garín and José Manuel Aguirre

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).

The Man Who Fed Butterflies BY LAuRA PIzARRO, DAuNO TóTORO AND JuAN CARLOS zAGAL

32. Theatre

Songs of AscensionBY MEREDITH MONK AND ANN HAMILTON

‘Watching Monk’s work is like seeing music.’ eyespyLA.com

‘Later generations will envy those who got to see her live.’ The New Yorker

Meredith Monk Company The Elysian Quartet Edinburgh university Singers

Meredith Monk Director

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.

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.

Saturday 28, Sunday 29 & Monday 30 August 8.00pm


Tickets £27 £24 £18 £16 £10

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‘Explores the reality of war and its power to transform collective consciousness and domestic life.’ Caras y Caretas

Teatro en el Blanco


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.

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.

Thursday 2, Friday 3 & Saturday 4 September 8.00pm, Saturday 4 September 2.30pm


Tickets £27 £24 £18 £16 £10


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34. Orchestras

Thursday 19 August 8.00pm

Usher Hall

Tickets £40 £35 £28 £24 £20 £17 £12 £10


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Russian National OrchestraMikhail Pletnev Conductor Vadim Repin Violin Beethoven Overture, Coriolan Tchaikovsky Violin ConcertoShostakovich Symphony No 15

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.

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.

Vadim Repin: ‘This is raptly beautiful playing… Superb.’ The Sunday Times

Saturday 14 August 7.30pm

Usher Hall

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Rhapsodies in Red, White and BlueRoyal Scottish National Orchestra Gunther Schuller Conductor Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus Timothy Dean Chorus Master Steven Osborne Piano Copland Lincoln Portrait Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue (original jazz band version)Ives Symphony No 4

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.

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.

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.

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Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra 02Sakari Oramo Conductor Juha uusitalo Bass baritone Wagner Overture, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Dutchman’s Monologue, Der fliegende Holländer Wotan’s Farewell, Die Walküre

Nielsen Symphony No 5

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 Juha Uusitalo: ‘towering presence, scrupulous musicianship’ Financial Times

Sunday 15 August 8.00pm

Usher Hall

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Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra 01Sakari Oramo Conductor Petra Lang Mezzo soprano Nielsen Overture, HeliosWagner Wesendonck LiederNielsen Symphony No 4 ‘The Inextinguishable’

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.

Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Wednesday 15 September at 7.00pm

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ClevelandOrchestra01Franz 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


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02Franz Welser-Möst Conductor Laura Aikin Soprano Korngold Act II Prelude, Die tote Stadt

Marietta’s Lied, Die tote StadtBerg Lulu SuiteBrahms Symphony No 2 in D

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.

‘Welser-Möst drew the most magnificent colours and moods from the orchestra’ Telegraaf

‘Laura Aikin wields the colours of her voice like a vocal Renoir.’ Opernwelt


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01Mariss Jansons Conductor Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind InstrumentsBartók Music for Strings, Percussion and CelestaBerio 4 DédicacesStravinsky Firebird Suite (1945)

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.


02Mariss Jansons Conductor Anna Larsson Mezzo soprano 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.

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BBC Scottish Symphony OrchestraDonald Runnicles Conductor Midori Violin Stravinsky Concerto in E flat ‘Dumbarton Oaks’Bernstein SerenadeDvorák Symphony No 9 ‘From the New World’

Stravinsky’s baroque-inspired Dumbarton Oaks is a celebration of the music and culture of New England, USA.

Virtuoso violinist Midori performs Bernstein’s Serenade which the composer himself described as a ‘series of related statements in praise of love’.

Dvorák’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



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Scottish Chamber OrchestraRobin Ticciati Conductor Katia and Marielle Labèque Piano Rebel Les ElémensKevin Volans Symphony: Daar Kom die Alibama

(EIF commission, World Premiere)Poulenc Concerto for two pianosBizet Symphony in C

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.

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

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Thursday 2 September 7.30pm

Usher Hall

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Sydney Symphony Orchestra 02Vladimir Ashkenazy Conductor Hélène Grimaud Piano Sibelius RakastavaRavel Piano Concerto in GMatthew Hindson EnergyStrauss Der Rosenkavalier Suite

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. 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

Usher Hall

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Sydney Symphony Orchestra 01Vladimir Ashkenazy Conductor Dene Olding Violin Elgar In the SouthRoss Edwards Maninyas – Concerto for Violin and OrchestraPeter Sculthorpe Memento MoriElgar Enigma Variations

The eminent Russian-born conductor and pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy brings Australia’s premiere orchestra to Edinburgh for two Festival performances.

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.

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42. Orchestras

Mahler Symphony No 8BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Donald Runnicles Conductor Edinburgh Festival Chorus Royal Scottish National Orchestra Junior ChorusChristopher Bell Chorus Master Erin Wall SopranoHillevi Martinpelto SopranoNicole Cabell SopranoKatarina Karnéus Mezzo sopranoCatherine Wyn-Rogers Mezzo sopranoSimon O’Neill TenorAnthony Michaels-Moore BaritoneJohn 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.



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Minnesota OrchestraOsmo Vänskä Conductor Alisa Weilerstein Cello Barber Music for a Scene from ShelleyElgar Cello ConcertoBeethoven 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

Saturday 4 September 8.00pm

Usher Hall

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Susan Graham Mezzo sopranoMalcolm Martineau Piano

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


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Friday 3 September 8.00pm

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Joyce DiDonato Mezzo sopranoDavid zobel 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


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44. Jazz and Contemporary Music

Kronos QuartetDavid Harrington Violin John Sherba Violin Hank Dutt ViolaJeffrey zeigler Cello Aleksandra Vrebalov …hold me, neighbor, in this storm… Steve Reich Different TrainsGeorge 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’.

‘an extraordinary career of boundary-breaking discovery and innovation’ The New York Times

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Scottish National Jazz OrchestraGunther Schuller ConductorTommy Smith LeaderJoe 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

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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

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John Etheridge GuitarSweet 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


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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.


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The Hub

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1 hour approximately

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James Crabb AccordionGeorge Vassilev Guitar

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.


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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


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46. 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.

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.

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Fiesta CriollaEnsemble ElymaGabriel 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.


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The Tallis ScholarsPeter 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 JaneiroEnsemble Le Sans-Pareil Bruno Procopio Director

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.


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Bolivian BaroqueFlorilegium Ashley Solomon Director Katia Escalera SopranoGian-Carla Tisera SopranoKarina Troiano Mezzo sopranoHenry 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.


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Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert 47.

Bank of Scotland Fireworks ConcertScottish 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.

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Sunday 5 September 9.00pm

Princes Street Gardens

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The SixteenHarry 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.


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Latin American VespersEx 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.


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Music of Fire and AirLa Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI Jordi Savall Director

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.


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The Queen’s Hall SeriesThe 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, Dvorák 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.

Saturday 14 August 11.00am

The Queen’s Hall

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Jonathan Biss PianoKirchner Five Pieces Schumann Kreisleriana Mozart Adagio in B minorBeethoven 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

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Tuesday 17 August 11.00am

The Queen’s Hall

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Melvyn Tan Piano Škampa QuartetMozart Piano Concerto No 11 in F K413Janácek 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 Janácek’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

Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Thursday 26 August at 1.00pm

Monday 16 August 11.00am

The Queen’s Hall

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Magdalena Kožená Mezzo soprano Private MusickeLove 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.

‘a great communicator, with strong dramatic instincts and a distinctive mezzo voice.’ The Times ‘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

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Thursday 19 August 11.00am

The Queen’s Hall

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Edicson Ruiz Double bass Sergio Tiempo PianoProgramme 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.

Wednesday 18 August 11.00am

The Queen’s Hall

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Trio zimmermannBeethoven 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

Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Friday 27 August at 1.00pm

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Christianne Stotijn Mezzo soprano Joseph Breinl PianoProgramme to include: Schoenberg Das Buch der hängenden GärtenBrahms 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

The Queen’s Hall

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Pavel Haas QuartetHaydn String Quartet in D minor Op 76 No 2Dvorák String Quartet in F Op 96 ‘American’Dvorák 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 Dvorák’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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Pavel Haas QuartetBritten Three DivertimentiHaas 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 Janácek, 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


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Simon Keenlyside Baritone Malcolm Martineau PianoNed Rorem Selected songsButterworth Six songs from A Shropshire Lad

Bredon Hill and other songsSchumann 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.

‘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


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Thursday 26 August 11.00am

The Queen’s Hall

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Midori Violin Ozgur Aydin PianoBeethoven Violin Sonata in A minor Op 23Bloch Violin Sonata No 2 ‘Poème mystique’Mario Davidovsky Duo CapricciosoBrahms 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 Argentine-American 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


Wednesday 25 August 11.00am

The Queen’s Hall

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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

Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Friday 3 September at 1.00pm

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Llyr Williams PianoBeethoven Piano Sonata in E flat Op 27 No 1Ives Piano Sonata No 2 ‘Concord’

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.

‘one of the truly great musicians of our time’ The Times ‘Technical brilliance was there in abundance… more impressive still was the sheer range of expression and the individuality of the performance’ The Herald

Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Thursday 9 September at 1.00pm

Friday 27 August 11.00am

The Queen’s Hall

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Nash EnsembleBartók ContrastsGershwin Lullaby for string quartetCopland SextetDvorák String Quintet in E flat Op 97 ‘American’

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.

The manuscript for Lullaby lay on Ira Gershwin’s shelf for many years until harmonica virtuoso Larry Adler transcribed it for harmonica and string quartet and presented it at the Edinburgh International Festival in 1963. The work was premiered in its original form, for string quartet, in 1967.

Notorious for its wicked technical challenges, Copland’s Sextet is imbued with his enthusiasm for jazz rhythms as well as the popular rhythms of the Charleston and Mexican dance.

Spillville, Iowa, is home to an old Czech community where Dvorák 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


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Steven Osborne Piano Joplin Maple Leaf RagGershwin Three Preludes Ives Three-page SonataGeorge Crumb ProcessionalSteven Osborne ImprovisationNikolai Kapustin Five PreludesPeterson IndianaRavel Valses nobles et sentimentalesRachmaninov 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


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Joan Rodgers Soprano Roderick Williams Baritone Roger Vignoles PianoProgramme 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

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Thursday 2 September 11.00am

The Queen’s Hall

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Tokyo Quartet David Watkin CelloDebussy String QuartetPeter Sculthorpe String Quartet No 18

(EIF co-commission, European Premiere)Schubert String Quintet in C

Debussy’s only string quartet shows the influences of César Franck, Borodin and Javanese gamelan music. 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. Schubert’s String Quintet is considered a high point of the chamber music repertoire; its beautiful, plaintive second movement is widely familiar.

‘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

Wednesday 1 September 11.00am

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Ars Nova Paul HillierDavid Lang For love is strong Steve Reich Know what is above you Lou Harrison Mass for St Cecilia’s DayTerry Riley Chorus 193 from the Mexico City Blues of Jack Kerouac Jack Body Lullabies Ross Edwards Sacred Kingfisher Psalms

(EIF co-commission, UK Premiere)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Simón Bolívar String QuartetBach Contrapunctus 1 from The Art of FugueShostakovich String Quartet No 8Javier Alvarez Metro ChabacanoBrahms String Quartet in A minor Op 51 No 2

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.

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.

‘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

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Duo SolKorngold Much Ado About Nothing Suite: Garden SceneBeethoven 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

Duo Sol brings a flamboyant programme of music from the new world together with Beethoven’s dazzling Kreutzer Sonata. 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. 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.

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58. Explorations

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.


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.


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.


ExplorationsExplorations, 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.

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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.


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.


New voices from the landscape

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.


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.


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.

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.


The Hub

Tickets £6.50


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Conversations

Montezuma

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.



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.


Joyce DiDonato

The American mezzo soprano talks about her sparkling international career.


Grupo Corpo

Founders of Brazilian contemporary dance company Grupo Corpo, Rodrigo and Paulo Pederneiras, discuss their beliefs and inspirations.


The Kronos Quartet

David Harrington, John Sherba, Hank Dutt and Jeffrey Zeigler talk about the singular artistic vision of the Kronos Quartet.

Saturday 21 August 12 noon

The Wooster Group

For over thirty years they have been reinventing theatre. Elizabeth LeCompte and members of The Wooster Group discuss their latest work.


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.

Tuesday 24 August 12 noon

Caledonia

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.


Teatro Cinema

Director Dauno Tótoro and film director Juan Carlos Zagal of Chilean ensemble Teatro Cinema talk about their remarkable fusion of artforms.


Susan Graham

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.


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

Midori

A rare opportunity as Midori joins us to talk about what, from a very early age, has been a remarkable international career.


Meredith Monk

Iconic American artist Meredith Monk shares her distinctive philosophies on life.


Gunther Schuller

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.


Alonzo King Lines Ballet

Choreographer Alonzo King, a distinctive voice in dance, talks about how he embraces a global perspective on stage.


Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust

Supported by

The Hub

Tickets £6.50


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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 IdeasA presentation by David Leddy

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 Mass Observation ProjectInspector 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


Little MatterThe River People

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.

Sunday 22 & Monday 23 August 5.00pm & 6.30pm


DraculaBelt 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.

Wednesday 25 August 2.30pm Thursday 26 August 12 noon & 2.30pm


The Hub

Tickets £6.50

eif.co.uk/masterclasses

The Hub

Tickets £6.50

eif.co.uk/behindthescenes

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.

Supported by

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.



zakir Hussain Master of the Tabla

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.



62. Festival City

Edinburgh International Film Festival 16 – 27 June +44 (0)131 228 4051edfilmfest.org.uk

Edinburgh International Jazz and Blues Festival30 July – 8 August +44 (0)131 467 5200edinburghjazzfestival.co.uk

Edinburgh Art Festival 29 July – 5 September +44 (0)782 533 6782edinburghartfestival.com

Edinburgh Mela6 – 8 August +44 (0)131 332 2888edinburgh-mela.co.uk

Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo6 – 28 August +44 (0)131 225 1188edintattoo.co.uk

Edinburgh Festival Fringe6 – 30 August Admin: +44 (0)131 226 0026Box office: +44 (0)131 226 0000edfringe.com

Festival of Spirituality and Peace7 – 29 August +44 (0)131 221 2273festivalofspirituality.org.uk

Edinburgh International Book Festival 14 – 30 August +44 (0)131 718 5666edbookfest.co.uk

Festival of Politics 17 – 21 August +44 (0)131 348 5000festivalofpolitics.org.uk

National Galleries of Scotland+44 (0)131 624 6200nationalgalleries.org

Happy AnniversaryCongratulations to the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo celebrating its 60th anniversary and to Assembly Theatre, 30 years old this year.

edinburghfestivals.co.uk The online one stop shop for Edinburgh’s 12 major festivals. The place to go to find news, listings, the Festivals iPhone application and digital versions of the Edinburgh Festivals Daily Guide.

Once you’re here…

Edinburgh Festivals Daily GuideFree guide you can pick up all across the city with comprehensive listings and details of all events at the International Festival and all the other summer festivals.

Official Edinburgh Festivals MapPick up a copy of the official festivals map, available at most venues around town.

Traveline+44 (0)871 200 22 33travelinescotland.com

Edinburgh Airport+44 (0)870 040 0007edinburghairport.com

National Rail Enquiries+44 (0)8457 48 49 50nationalrail.co.uk

Lothian Buses+44 (0)131 555 6363lothianbuses.com

VisitScotlandFor all your accommodation and tourism information needs.+44 (0)845 22 55 [email protected]

Festival Beds Accommodation in private homes in the city and surrounding area.+44 (0)131 225 [email protected]

Edinburgh’s Summer Festivals 2010

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Festival venuesThe Hub Edinburgh’s Festival Centre, Royal Mile C3

Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Nicolson Street D4

The Queen’s Hall Clerk Street E5

The Edinburgh Playhouse Greenside Place E1

Royal Lyceum TheatreGrindlay Street B3

usher HallLothian Road B3

Ross TheatrePrinces Street Gardens B3

King’s TheatreLeven Street B5

Greyfriars KirkGreyfriars Place D4

Other festivalsJazz Festival Box Office The Hub C3

Tattoo OfficeMarket Street D2

Festival Fringe Box OfficeRoyal Mile D3

Edinburgh International Book FestivalCharlotte Square A2

Festival of PoliticsScottish Parliament E3

Tourist Information CentrePrinces Street D2

Caledonian Hilton Edinburgh (A3)Princes Street Edinburgh EH1 2AB +44 (0)131 222 8888hilton.co.uk/caledonian

City Inn Westminster30 John Islip Street London SW1P 4DD +44 (0)20 7630 1000cityinn.com/london/london-hotels

The Glasshouse (E1)2 Greenside Place, Edinburgh EH1 3AA +44 (0)131 525 8325theetoncollection.com/glasshouse

Hotel du Vin, Edinburgh (D4) 11 Bristo Place Edinburgh EH1 1EZ +44 (0)131 247 4900hotelduvin.com/Edinburgh

Hotel Missoni (C3) 1 George IV Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1AD +44 (0)131 220 6666hotelmissoni.com

Macdonald Holyrood Hotel (E3)81 Holyrood Road Edinburgh EH8 8AU +44 (0)131 550 4500macdonaldhotels.co.uk/holyrood

Partner Hotels

For information on becoming a Partner Hotel visit eif.co.uk/hotels

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64. 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

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

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.

The King’s Theatre and Greyfriars Kirk box offices open an hour before the performance.

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.

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.

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 [email protected] 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

Audio Described Performances

The Sun Also Rises (page 24) Monday 16 August 7.30pm

Porgy and Bess (page 6) Tuesday 17 August 7.15pm

Vieux Carré (page 25) Tuesday 24 August 7.30pm

Água (page 20) Sunday 29 August 7.30pm

Audio Described Performance with Touch Tour

Caledonia (page 29) Wednesday 25 AugustTouch 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)

65.Prices

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.

Standby – Half Price from Wednesday 4 August

50% off all tickets for senior citizens, unemployed people, Young Scot, Equity and MU card holders from 4 August.

Are you under 26? Tickets for only £8 on the day

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

Please call +44 (0)131 473 2089 or email [email protected]

Treasures and Traditions at Greyfriars

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

Greyfriars Kirk

All seats £17.50

Discounts and Ticket Prices


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 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

Montezuma Grand Circle £35 £28 £12† Stalls £35 £28 £25 £20 Upper Circle £18 £12

Caledonia Grand Circle £27 £24 £18† Stalls £27 £22 £18 £12 Upper Circle £18 £12

Sin Sangre, The Man Who Fed Butterflies Grand Circle £27 £24 £18 £12† Stalls £27 £22 £18 £12


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

The Opening Concert (no OG) Circle £46 £42 £33 Stalls £46 £39 £33 £18 Upper circle £20 £18 £12.50 £10

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)

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

* Supertitles not visible from these seats † 60 seats or fewer please give an alternative where possibleOG Organ Gallery

+44 (0)131 473 2000

66. Festival Diary

Venue Fri 13 August Sat 14 August Sun 15 August Mon 16 August Tue 17 August Wed 18 August

Access Facilities Key: P Designated Parking L Level Access R Ramped Access LF Lift WS Wheelchair Spaces in AuditoriumT Induction Loop H Infra Red System WC Accessible Toilets C Accessible Catering/Bar

11.00am

Jonathan Biss (p48)

11.00am

Magdalena Kožená, Private Musicke (p49)

11.00am

Škampa Quartet, Melvyn Tan (p49)

11.00am

Trio Zimmermann (p50)The Queen’s HallClerk StreetR WS T H WC C

5.45pm

Fiesta Criolla (p46)

5.45pm

The Tallis Scholars (p46)

5.45pm

Sacred Music from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro (p46)

Greyfriars KirkGreyfriars PlaceL WS WC

7.15pm

Porgy and Bess (p6)

Opéra de Lyon

7.15pm

Porgy and Bess (p6)

Opéra de Lyon

7.15pm

Porgy and Bess (p6)

Opéra de Lyon

Festival Theatre,Edinburgh Nicolson StreetL R LF WS H WC C

7.30pm

The Sun Also Rises (p24)


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7.30pm



2.00pm



Royal Lyceum TheatreGrindlay StreetL LF WS T H WC C

2.30pm

What do we mean by ‘Postcolonial Art’? (p58)

2.30pm

Creative Innovation (p58)

2.30pm

Steven Osborne on Improvisation (p61)

5.00pm

Conversations: Montezuma (p60)

2.30pm

Three New Ideas (p61)

5.00pm

Conversations: Elevator Repair Service (p60)

2.30pm

The Exiled Voice (p58)

5.00pm

Conversations: Joyce DiDonato (p60)

The HubCastlehillLF WS T WC C

7.15pm

Montezuma (p9)

7.15pm

Montezuma (p9)

7.15pm

Montezuma (p9)King’s TheatreLeven StreetR WS H WC

8.00pm

The Tempest (p15)

Lemi Ponifasio/Mau

8.00pm

The Tempest (p15)

Lemi Ponifasio/Mau

8.00pm

Birds with Skymirrors (p15)

Lemi Ponifasio/Mau

2.30pm

Birds with Skymirrors (p15)

Lemi Ponifasio/Mau

The Edinburgh PlayhouseGreenside PlaceR WS H WC C

8.00pm

El Niño (p5)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

James Conlon Conductor

7.30pm

Rhapsodies in Red, White and Blue (p34)

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Gunther Schuller Conductor

8.00pm

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra 01 (p35)

Sakari Oramo Conductor

8.00pm

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra 02 (p35)

Sakari Oramo Conductor

8.00pm

Cleveland Orchestra 01 (p36)

Franz Welser-Möst Conductor

8.00pm

Cleveland Orchestra 02 (p37)

Franz Welser-Möst Conductor

usher HallLothian RoadL LF WS T WC C

67.Festival Diary

Venue Thu 19 August Fri 20 August Sat 21 August Sun 22 August Mon 23 August Tue 24 August

11.00am

Edicson Ruiz, Sergio Tiempo (p50)

11.00am

Pavel Haas Quartet (p51)

11.00am

Christianne Stotijn, Joseph Breinl (p51)

11.00am

Simon Keenlyside, Malcolm Martineau (p52)

11.00am

Pavel Haas Quartet (p52)The Queen’s HallClerk StreetR WS T H WC C

5.45pm

Bolivian Baroque (p46)

5.45pm

The Sixteen (p47)

5.45pm

Latin American Vespers (p47)

5.45pm

Music of Fire and Air (p47)


8.00pm

Grupo Corpo (p16)

8.00pm

Grupo Corpo (p16)

8.00pm

Grupo Corpo (p16)

8.00pm

Grupo Corpo (p16)Festival Theatre,Edinburgh Nicolson StreetL R LF WS H WC C

7.30pm

Vieux Carré (p25)

The Wooster Group

7.30pm

Vieux Carré (p25)

The Wooster Group

7.30pm

Vieux Carré (p25)

The Wooster Group

7.30pm

Vieux Carré (p25)

The Wooster Group


2.30pm

The Mass Observation Project (p61)

2.30pm

The Mass Observation Project (p61)

5.00pm

Conversations: Grupo Corpo (p60)

9.30pm

Sarah Connolly and John Horler (p45)

12noon

Conversations: Kronos Quartet (p60)

9.30pm

Sarah Connolly and John Horler (p45)

2.30pm

Pacific Solutions (p58)

5.00pm

Little Matter (p61)

6.30pm

Little Matter (p61)

2.30pm

Conversations: The Wooster Group (p60)

5.00pm

Little Matter (p61)

6.30pm

Little Matter (p61)

12noon

Conversations: The Sixteen (p60)

2.30pm

The Darien Venture (p59)

5.00pm

Conversations: Caledonia (p60)


7.30pm

Caledonia (p28)


2.30pm

Caledonia (p28)


7.30pm

Caledonia (p28)


7.30pm

Caledonia (p28)


King’s TheatreLeven StreetR WS H WC

7.30pm

The Gospel at Colonus (p26)

2.30pm


7.30pm


2.30pm



8.00pm

Russian National Orchestra (p34)

Mikhail Pletnev Conductor

7.00pm

Idomeneo (p10)

Concert performance

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Sir Charles Mackerras Conductor

8.00pm

Kronos Quartet (p44)

8.00pm

Joyce DiDonato, David Zobel (p43)

7.00pm

La fanciulla del West (p10)

Concert performance

The Orchestra of Scottish Opera

Franceso Corti Conductor

8.00pm

The Indian Queen (p11)

Concert performance

The Sixteen

Harry Christophers Conductor


Events Key: Opera Dance Theatre Music Discussions

68. Festival Diary

Venue Wed 25 August Thu 26 August Fri 27 August Sat 28 August Sun 29 August Mon 30 August

Access Facilities Key: P Designated Parking L Level Access R Ramped Access LF Lift WS Wheelchair Spaces in AuditoriumT Induction Loop H Infra Red System WC Accessible Toilets C Accessible Catering/Bar

11.00am

Gerald Finley, Julius Drake (p53)

11.00am

Midori, Ozgur Aydin (p53)

11.00am

Nash Ensemble (p54)

11.00am

Llyr Williams (p54)

11.00am

Joan Rodgers, Roderick Williams, Roger Vignoles (p55)

The Queen’s HallClerk StreetR WS T H WC C


8.00pm

Alonzo King Lines Ballet (p18)

8.00pm


8.00pm


8.00pm



8.00pm

Songs of Ascension (p32)

Meredith Monk Company, The Elysian Quartet, Edinburgh University Singers

8.00pm



8.00pm




2.30pm

Dracula (p61)

5.00pm

Conversations: Midori (p60)

12noon

Dracula (p61)

2.30pm

Dracula (p61)

5.00pm

Conversations: Meredith Monk (p60)

2.30pm

Zakir Hussain Master of the Tabla (p61)

5.00pm

Conversations: Gunther Schuller (p60)

9.30pm

John Etheridge, Sweet Chorus (p45)

2.30pm

Global perspectives and empathy (p59)

9.30pm

John Etheridge (p45)

2.30pm

New voices from the landscape (p59)

5.00pm

Conversations: Alonzo King Lines Ballet (p60)

9.30pm

James Crabb and George Vassilev (p45)

9.30pm

James Crabb (p45)The HubCastlehillLF WS T WC C

2.30pm

Caledonia (p28)


7.30pm

Caledonia (p28)


2.30pm

Caledonia (p28)


8.00pm

Sin Sangre (p30)

Teatro Cinema

8.00pm

The Man Who Fed Butterflies (p31)

Teatro Cinema

8.00pm

Sin Sangre (p30)

Teatro Cinema


7.30pm

Água (p20)


7.30pm

Água (p20)


7.30pm

Água (p20)



7.30pm

L’heure espagnole (p11)

Concert performance

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Stéphane Denève Conductor

8.00pm

Scottish National Jazz Orchestra (p44)

Gunther Schuller Conductor

7.30pm

Scottish Chamber Orchestra (p40)

Robin Ticciati Conductor

7.30pm

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (p40)

Donald Runnicles Conductor

7.30pm

Minnesota Orchestra (p42)

Osmo Vänskä Conductor

8.00pm

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 01 (p38)

Mariss Jansons Conductor


69.Festival Diary

Venue Tue 31 August Wed 1 September Thu 2 September Fri 3 September Sat 4 September Sun 5 September

Events Key: Opera Dance Theatre Music Discussions

11.00am

Steven Osborne (p55)

11.00am

Ars Nova, Paul Hillier (p56)

11.00am

Tokyo Quartet, David Watkin (p56)

11.00am

Duo Sol (p57)

11.00am

Simón Bolívar String Quartet (p57)

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7.15pm

Bliss (p12)

Opera Australia BBC Symphony Orchestra

7.15pm

Bliss (p12)

Opera Australia BBC Symphony Orchestra


8.00pm

Diciembre (p33)

Teatro en el Blanco

8.00pm

Diciembre (p33)

Teatro en el Blanco

2.30pm

Diciembre (p33)

Teatro en el Blanco

8.00pm

Diciembre (p33)

Teatro en el Blanco


2.30pm

A Scotsman’s legacy to Australasia (p59)

5.00pm

Conversations: Teatro Cinema (p60)

5.00pm

Conversations: Susan Graham (p60)

2.30pm

Reflecting silenced narratives (p59)

5.00pm

Conversations: Teatro en el Blanco (p60)

2.30pm

Conversations: Paco Peña (p60)


8.00pm

Sin Sangre (p30)

Teatro Cinema

8.00pm


Teatro Cinema

8.00pm

Sin Sangre (p30)

Teatro Cinema

2.00pm


Teatro Cinema

8.00pm


Teatro Cinema


8.00pm

Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company (p22)

8.00pm


8.00pm



8.00pm

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 02 (p38)

Mariss Jansons Conductor

7.30pm

Sydney Symphony Orchestra 01 (p41)

Vladimir Ashkenazy Conductor

7.30pm

Sydney Symphony Orchestra 02 (p41)

Vladimir Ashkenazy Conductor

8.00pm

Susan Graham, Malcolm Martineau (p43)

8.00pm

Mahler Symphony No 8 (p42)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Donald Runnicles Conductor


Princes Street Gardens L WS WC 9.00pm

Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert (p47)

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Clark Rundell Conductor

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