Name: This Shining Night
Start: 2026-08-13T21:00:00
Location: Usher Hall

Sofi Jeannin

Pei-Jee Ng

Imogen Morgan

Stuart Hope

Tom Hunter

James Grossmith

Edinburgh International Festival

Edinburgh Festival Chorus

Visionary Brazilian director Christiane Jatahy returns to the Festival with a radical sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, featuring Golden Globe-winning actor Wagner Moura.

A Trial – after An Enemy of the People

The Lyceum

Begin your Festival with this rehearsal of the Festival’s sold out Opening Concert: Wynton Marsalis’s All Rise, a 12-movement jazz symphony honouring the 12-bar blues, blending global influences and tracing life from birth and play through struggle to joy and maturity.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Rehearsal

Usher Hall

Start your Festival with the sounds of these award-winning, emerging Scottish folk artists.

Preview: Dàna with Ellie Beaton

Over a weekend in a country estate, Arkadina, a celebrated actress, and her playwright son, Konstantin, pursue their artistic and romantic ambitions amidst a complex web of melodramatic characters, generational differences and fatal misunderstandings.

[seagull]

Studio Theatre Edinburgh

A cowboy is stuck in the desert. He’s got a price on his head: wanted – dead or alive. But right now, he needs water, shade from the sun and a chance to escape from those pesky snakes and vultures.

Hostile

Church Hill Theatre

Start your Festival with this resplendent jazz symphony embodying the human condition from Jazz at Lincoln Center and its Musical Director, Wynton Marsalis.

Opening Concert: All Rise

Drawing on non-canonical gospels, ancient texts and poetry by Ruth Fainlight, this fascinating new work by Tansy Davies brings a fresh perspective to historically repressed voices. BBC Radio 3’s Kate Molleson has described Davies as a composer who ‘connects with body, spirituality and political convictions’. This bracing approach to both musical language and subject matter shapes her new dramatic work.

Dunedin Consort

The Queen's Hall

Local doctor Theresa Hart works tirelessly for her community in a fading, forgotten corner of the world. When the charismatic Lucky Mack comes to town, her daughter Noy is captivated. A ride on his carousel – the first one always free – promises miraculous relief from all aches and pains, and soon the whole town is swept up in euphoria. But getting off the ride gets harder with every turn.

The Galloping Cure

Festival Theatre Edinburgh

Celebrate the power of collaboration through joyful, community-led performances in Princes Street Gardens.

Together We Rise

Princes Street Gardens

Join violinist Nicola Benedetti and musicians from across the Festival for a surprise late-night lineup.

First Night at The Hub

The exceptional National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America performs three vibrant 20th-century masterpieces. These talented young musicians are joined by Festival regular, American conductor Karina Canellakis, praised by Gramophone for her ‘finesse and fire’.

Gershwin & Bartók

Conductor and composer Jason Max Ferdinand formed his choir to champion Black excellence through an eclectic range of choral literature. Founded during the pandemic, the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers have fast gained international renown for their ‘bold, impassioned sound’ (The Guardian). Following their Festival debut in All Rise, they present a wide-ranging and emotionally potent programme in this more intimate performance.

Jason Max Ferdinand Singers

The Edinburgh Festival Chorus joins with our Rising Stars for a programme of American music from the 20th and 21st centuries.