Edinburgh International Festival

When: 10 Aug - 2 Sep 2007 (annual)
Where: Edinburgh
Cost: Various
Opening Hours: Various

One of the world's great arts festivals, the Edinburgh International Festival fills the Scottish capital with the finest classical music, opera, theatre and dance for three weeks at the end of every summer. With the many other festivals (the Military Tattoo, Fringe, Film, Jazz and Book), it makes Edinburgh the world's most exciting festival city during August. There's a new look for 2007 with a new director Australian Jonathan Mills taking over after Sir Brian McMaster's 15 years at the helm. An immediate change is adding two days to the beginning of the festival.

The International Festival started off Edinburgh's annual arts frenzy in 1947, bringing all that was best in the performing arts to the "Athens of the North." Ever since then, the world's greatest theatre companies, opera and ballet companies, orchestras and classical artists have made the pilgrimage to the city built beneath the volcanic outcrop known as Arthur's Seat.

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