Nicola Benedetti announces the 2026 Edinburgh International Festival theme ‘All Rise’, featuring Wynton Marsalis and a 250th anniversary focus on the USA.

“Not Shakespeare as you know it.” Teatro La Plaza’s reinvented Hamlet opens in Aberdeen tonight for a powerful three-day run.

"More meditation than concert, it leaned on atmosphere and restraint, asking the audience to meet the music on its own terms." - Up Late with Joep Beving & Maarten Vos

"What lingered in the mind afterwards was not spectacle but intensity. Bernstein’s exuberance and Stravinsky’s chill left complementary impressions..."

"Christopher Maltman, a singer at the very top of his considerable game," elevates what could have been an evening of nostalgic wallowing to close this year's Festival.