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    2024 Festival Highlights

  2. Two young girls stand dancing overlooking a big stage in Princes Street Gardens
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    Where to Start

  3. A woman sings in front of a microphone wearing a large gold dress and a gold head piece. Behind her is a band playing instruments.
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    What is a song cycle?

  4. Six musicians in black stand on the stage with their instruments after a concert. The walls and curtains behind them are blue and in front of them a full concert hall of people is applauding.
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    The International Festival Recommends: Seven things to see and do in October

  5. A conductor with curly hair stands on stage conducting an orchestra mid-performance
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    A New Musical Landscape: Symphony No 9 in D minor by Ludwig van Beethoven

  6. An orchestra plays, as a conductor with white hair stands in front of them. They are wearing all black, and are seated in a large room with large wooden organ pipes behind them.
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    A Hymn to Joy: Turangalîla-Symphonie by Olivier Messiaen

  7. All of the members of the RSNO stand on a stage wearing formal dress with their instruments
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    Shadow and Light: A Child of Our Time by Sir Michael Tippett

  8. Two dancers bathed in a neon light against a black background lean towards each other as one cups the other's cheek with their palm
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    Love stories at the 2023 International Festival

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    What is Life is a Dream all about?

  10. A dancer lies on a red silk dress, she holds her upper body up above the ground with her arms.
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    What is The Rite of Spring all about?

  11. A woman in a red dress sleeps curled up on a bed with her back to the camera, while above her a man descends upside down from a black rock climbing wall, with mystical red smoke billowing around him.
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    Myths and legends in the 2023 International Festival programme

  12. A woman stands against a yellow background with a golden silk dress billowing around her and her head tipped back with dreadlocks hanging down
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    Highlights of the 2023 International Festival