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Festival Diary
Venue
Fri 9 August
The Queen’s Hall
Sat 10 August
Sun 11 August
11.00am Christian Gerhaher Gerold Huber (p52)
Clerk Street R WS T H WC C
The Hub Castlehill LF WS T H WC C
Mon 12 August
Tue 13 August
Wed 14 August
11.00am Chiaroscuro Quartet (p52)
11.00am Bernarda Fink, Anthony Spiri (p53)
11.00am Nicola Boud, Sabine Devieilhe, Jane Gower, Sophie Gent, Kristian Bezuidenhout (p53)
2.30pm Interfaces: Language in a Technological Age (p64)
2.30pm Interfaces: The Internet and Free Will (p64)
2.30pm Conversations: The Wooster Group (p63)
12 noon Conversations: Philip Glass and Patti Smith (p63)
12 noon Conversations: Grid Iron (p63)
5.00pm Interfaces: Unknowable Futures (p64)
5.00pm Interfaces: The Leisure Revolution (p64)
5.00pm Interfaces: Making Sense of the New Unrest (p64)
2.30pm Interfaces: How Art Intersects with Technology in Cinema (p64)
2.30pm Interfaces: Mind Change in the 21st Century (p64)
9.00pm Cafe Concerts: Pure Brass (p62)
5.00pm Interfaces: Is the Internet Making Us Smarter? (p64) 9.00pm Cafe Concerts: Belmonte Quartet (p62)
Other venues
12 noon Wooster Group Archive: Rumstick Road (p23) New Media Scotland
Lecture Theatre, National Museum of Scotland Chambers Street L LF WC T
12 noon Wooster Group Archive: House/Lights (p23) New Media Scotland
12 noon Transmitted Live: Nam June Paik Resounds curators talk (p69) Talbot Rice Gallery, The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge R LF T
The Queen’s Gallery The Palace of Holyrood House L LF WC C New Media Scotland 1 Crichton Street L WS LF
12 noon Wooster Group Archive: To You, The Birdie! (Phèdre) (p23) New Media Scotland 6.30pm The artistic content of Leonardo’s anatomical work (p71) The Queen’s Gallery
5.00pm Interfaces: Technology and the Soul (p65) 9.00pm Cafe Concerts: Hannah Stone (p62)
12 noon Wooster Group Archive: The Emperor Jones; Today, I Must Sincerely Congratulate You; Rhyme ’Em to Death (p23) New Media Scotland
St Cecilia’s Hall Cowgate R LF WS WC
EICC Morrison Street L LF WC H
8.00pm Leaving Planet Earth (p24) Grid Iron
8.00pm Leaving Planet Earth (p24) Grid Iron
8.00pm Leaving Planet Earth (p24) Grid Iron
8.00pm Metamorphosis (p21) Contemporary Legend Theatre
8.00pm Metamorphosis (p21) Contemporary Legend Theatre
3.00pm Metamorphosis (p21) Contemporary Legend Theatre
8.00pm Leaving Planet Earth (p24) Grid Iron
Edinburgh International Climbing Arena Ratho R WC LF
King’s Theatre, Edinburgh Leven Street R L WS H WC
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
7.15pm Fidelio (p6) Opéra de Lyon
Nicolson Street L R LF WS H WC C
The Edinburgh Playhouse Greenside Place L WS H WC C
Royal Lyceum Theatre Grindlay Street L LF WS T H WC C
Usher Hall Lothian Road L LF WS WC C
7.30pm Alexander Nevsky (p34) Royal Scottish National Orchestra Valery Gergiev conductor
7.15pm Fidelio (p6) Opéra de Lyon
8.00pm La Belle et la Bête (p46) Philip Glass Ensemble
8.00pm La Belle et la Bête (p46) Philip Glass Ensemble
7.30pm Hamlet (p22) The Wooster Group
7.30pm Hamlet (p22) The Wooster Group
7.30pm Hamlet (p22) The Wooster Group
7.30pm Hamlet (p22) The Wooster Group
8.00pm 20th Century Classics (p35) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Ilan Volkov conductor
7.30pm Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (p36) Mariss Jansons conductor
8.00pm Mahler Symphony No 2 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (p36) Mariss Jansons conductor
8.00pm Mitsuko Uchida (p35)
8.30pm The Poet Speaks (p47) Patti Smith, Philip Glass
Access Facilities Key: L Level access R Ramped access LF Lift SL Stair lift WS Wheelchair spaces in auditorium T Induction loop H Infrared system WC Accessible toilets C Accessible catering/bar
7.30pm Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble 01 (p37) Marc Minkowski conductor