Preview: Edinburgh Festival 2025

Edinburgh International Festival breaks boundaries in a year exploring ‘The Truth We Seek’

This August Edinburgh International Festival presents a hand-picked selection of leading international and local artists in the world’s Festival City, with 24 days of world-class opera, dance, music and theatre. The Festival’s 2025 programme offers opportunities to experience world-class artists in thought-provoking and unconventional ways – including an eight-hour choral extravaganza, a distinctive outdoor promenade dance piece and a circus inf…

Preview: Edinburgh Festival 2025

Following on from our coverage of the Britten Pears 2025/26 season yesterday, here are details of this year's Edinburgh Festival:The Edinburgh International Festival opens on 1 August and features 1700 artists from 42 countries across a curated programme of music, theatre, dance and operaClick here to read the brochureWorld premiere stage performancesMake It Happen, an eye-opening take on the 2008 financial crisis set in Edinburgh, starring Bria…