{"id":50695,"date":"2025-03-13T12:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T12:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/eight-hour-show-to-open-edinburgh-international-festival\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T12:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T12:16:52","slug":"eight-hour-show-to-open-edinburgh-international-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/eight-hour-show-to-open-edinburgh-international-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight hour show to open Edinburgh International Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Orpheus and Eurydice is a promenade dance work that transforms Edinburgh’s Old College Quad into a stage for Dance People<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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An eight-hour choral extravaganza of a universal prayer is to open the Edinburgh International Festival at the Usher Hall.<\/p>\n

John Tavener’s The Veil of the Temple will be performed by Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Monteverdi Choir and the National Youth Choir of Scotland.<\/p>\n

Other highlights include opera incorporating circus performers for a fusion of music and acrobatics in Orpheus And Eurydice, and Breaking Bach – where hip-hop meets 18th-century period instruments.<\/p>\n

Succession star Brian Cox also returns to the Scottish stage for the first time in a decade in Make It Happen – a satirical play exploring Scotland’s role in the global financial crash of 2008.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cox will play pioneering Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith in teh work by playwright James Graham.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Succession star Brian Cox is also set to return to the Scottish stage for the first time in a decade, starring in Make It Happen<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The programme this year is tied to the theme of “truth”.<\/p>\n

It will see more than 1,700 artists from 42 nations, including 600 from Scotland, take to the stage in Edinburgh from 1 – 24 August.<\/p>\n

Scottish Ballet’s Mary, Queen of Scots is a major new production from choreographer Sophie Laplane and co-creator James Bonas that draws on the complex relationship between Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I of England.<\/p>\n

A choral workshop with amateur singers is also set for the festival’s closing concert, Mendelssohn’s Elijah.<\/p>\n

Festival director Nicola Benedetti said the arts were in a position where they could separate fact from disinformation.<\/p>\n

She said: “The arts are at an advantage with a problem like that, because what we’re trying to get across is that talking about truth versus when you’re talking about fact.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Other highlights include opera incorporating circus performers for a fusion of music and acrobatics in Orpheus And Eurydice<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Violinist Benedetti, who was made an MBE in 2013 for her services to music and charity, said the opening show was one to watch.<\/p>\n

She said: “It’s a concert that’s going to be an eight-hour performance with 250 singers featuring our festival chorus, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year.<\/p>\n

“There’ll be an incredible exploration into the essence of truth from perspectives around the world, looking at how all religions actually speak a common, universal truth, so it’s breaking down some of that disharmony.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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