2010 festival theme and diary dates announced

Get ready for an explosion of sound and colour in Edinburgh in summer 2010. Reaching far across the
globe Festival 2010 brings a whole host of international talent to Edinburgh for an intoxicating three weeks.

As Europe explored remote horizons 300 years ago the pioneers called their discoveries the New World. Now Scotland’s finest performers join artists and companies from the Americas and Australasia who bring a unique flavour to the Edinburgh International Festival in 2010.

Choose from a wide variety of concerts performed by the very best international and home-grown singers and musicians; enjoy cutting-edge theatre from North, South and Central America and spectacular dance from the Pacific Rim; and delight in exciting opera from Australia and Central America.

You can discover the unfamiliar and revisit favourite masterpieces in a Festival that puts new worlds of the imagination at its very heart.

Full details of all our events are available from 17 March 2010 and the Festival runs from 13 August to the 5 September. We’d love you to join us!

2010 Diary Dates

Wednesday 17 March

  • 2010 Festival unveiled
  • Festival brochure available and event details online at eif.co.uk
  • Priority booking for Festival
  • Friends and Patrons opens online, by post and by fax

Saturday 27 March

  • Public booking opens by post, telephone, online and in person at Hub Tickets

Friday 13 August

  • 2010 Festival Opening Concert

Sunday 5 September

  • Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert
  • 2010 Festival comes to a close
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