{"id":10883,"date":"2021-07-19T15:41:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T15:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beststartup.co.uk\/?p=10883"},"modified":"2021-07-19T15:41:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T15:41:36","slug":"%e2%80%8bedinburgh-international-festivals-digital-programme-offers-free-full-length-performances-for-global-audiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beststartup.co.uk\/%e2%80%8bedinburgh-international-festivals-digital-programme-offers-free-full-length-performances-for-global-audiences\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200bEdinburgh International Festival&#8217;s digital programme offers free full-length performances for global audiences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u2018Edinburgh International Festival&nbsp;At&nbsp;Home in partnership with&nbsp;abrdn\u2019&nbsp;digital programme&nbsp;includes&nbsp;18&nbsp;full length performances available for free online throughout 2021.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<\/li><li>The digital programme includes&nbsp;the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicola Benedetti, the&nbsp;Chineke! Orchestra, Malcolm Martineau, the National Theatre of Scotland and&nbsp;Talisk.<br>&nbsp;<\/li><li>Partnerships with&nbsp;BBC Radio&nbsp;3, Classic FM and Apple Music&nbsp;allow audiences more options to view or listen to the programme from their own&nbsp;home.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time in its 74-year history, the&nbsp;<strong>Edinburgh&nbsp;International Festival<\/strong>&nbsp;offers audiences&nbsp;worldwide&nbsp;the opportunity to experience&nbsp;performances&nbsp;from&nbsp;the comfort of&nbsp;their own homes, with&nbsp;18&nbsp;full-length performances available to watch for free online.&nbsp;The world\u2019s leading performing arts&nbsp;festival presents its digital programme in partnership with global investment&nbsp;brand&nbsp;<strong>abrdn<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the International Festival\u2019s ongoing commitment to accessibility,&nbsp;many&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;performances featured in the digital programme offer audio description, captioning&nbsp;or British Sign Language interpretation.&nbsp;Selected performances&nbsp;from the programme will also be broadcast, streamed or hosted&nbsp;on&nbsp;classical&nbsp;music radio stations&nbsp;<strong>BBC Radio&nbsp;3<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Classic FM&nbsp;<\/strong>and music streaming service&nbsp;<strong>Apple Music<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The International Festival\u2019s digital programme&nbsp;features&nbsp;newly commissioned&nbsp;dance&nbsp;works&nbsp;made for&nbsp;the&nbsp;digital&nbsp;experience&nbsp;as well as&nbsp;classical and contemporary music, opera,&nbsp;theatre&nbsp;and spoken word&nbsp;performances&nbsp;captured&nbsp;during the 2021 festival. The digital programme extends into October and November, providing a global platform for some of the world\u2019s leading artists beyond the festival season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highlights include:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Nicola Benedetti<\/strong>&nbsp;alongside a specially selected ensemble in Stravinsky\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Soldier\u2019s Tale<\/em>&nbsp;(online from 26 August).&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<\/li><li>A new production of&nbsp;<em>Ariadne auf Naxos<\/em><strong>,&nbsp;<\/strong>conducted by&nbsp;<strong>Sir Andrew Davis&nbsp;<\/strong>with the<strong>&nbsp;Royal Scottish National Orchestra&nbsp;<\/strong>and featuring German soprano&nbsp;<strong>Dorothea&nbsp;R\u00f6schmann<\/strong>&nbsp;(29 August).&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<\/li><li>A thrilling musical partnership between Argentinian-born&nbsp;cellist&nbsp;<strong>Sol&nbsp;Gabetta<\/strong>,&nbsp;fiery&nbsp;Hong Kong-born conductor&nbsp;<strong>Elim Chan<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;<strong>Royal Scottish National Orchestra<\/strong>, with repertoire including&nbsp;Saint-Sa\u00ebns\u2019s&nbsp;<em>First Cello Concerto&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;Beethoven\u2019s&nbsp;<em>First Symphony&nbsp;<\/em>(25 November).&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<\/li><li>Pianist&nbsp;<strong>Isata&nbsp;Kanneh-Mason&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;Russian-born conductor&nbsp;<strong>Vasily&nbsp;Petrenko<\/strong>&nbsp;joining forces with the&nbsp;<strong>Royal Philharmonic Orchestra<\/strong>&nbsp;to perform Clara Schumann\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Piano Concerto<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;Beethoven\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Seventh Symphony<\/em>&nbsp;(7 October).&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<\/li><li>The<strong>&nbsp;Chineke! Orchestra<\/strong>, conducted by&nbsp;<strong>William&nbsp;Eddins<\/strong>,&nbsp;joined by mezzo soprano&nbsp;<strong>Andrea Baker<\/strong>&nbsp;for Judith Weir\u2019s song cycle&nbsp;<em>woman.life.song<\/em>, which features texts from Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Clarissa&nbsp;Pinkola&nbsp;Estes (online from 22 August).&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<\/li><li>Acclaimed Edinburgh pianist&nbsp;<strong>Malcolm Martineau<\/strong>&nbsp;and friends celebrating&nbsp;the 250<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;anniversary of&nbsp;<strong>Sir Walter Scott<\/strong>\u2019s birth with&nbsp;a&nbsp;concert inspired by&nbsp;the poet\u2019s&nbsp;famous verse (online from 15 August).&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<\/li><li>Writer and director&nbsp;<strong>Hannah&nbsp;Lavery<\/strong>&nbsp;leads an artistic response to the 2015 death in Scottish police custody of Sheku Bayoh in the&nbsp;<strong>National Theatre of Scotland\u2019s&nbsp;<\/strong><em>Lament for Sheku Bayoh<\/em>&nbsp;(online from 25 August).&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Audiences at home will also experience the atmosphere in the Old College Quad with the exhilarating&nbsp;<strong>Zehetmair&nbsp;Quartet<\/strong>&nbsp;(14 October),&nbsp;Egyptian soprano&nbsp;<strong>Fatma Said<\/strong>&nbsp;accompanied by&nbsp;<strong>Malcolm Martineau&nbsp;<\/strong>(4 November)&nbsp;and a fast-paced, genre-bending performance from folk sensations&nbsp;<strong>Talisk&nbsp;<\/strong>(11 August).&nbsp;The digital programme also includes&nbsp;a&nbsp;rehearsed&nbsp;reading&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>You Bury Me<\/em>&nbsp;(17 August)&nbsp;written by&nbsp;Ahlam;&nbsp;a panel discussion about women\u2019s playwriting in Scotland chaired by The Guardian\u2019s Arifa Akbar&nbsp;(11 August); and performances from&nbsp;<strong>Inua&nbsp;Ellams<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Saul Williams<\/strong>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<strong>A Toast to the People<\/strong>&nbsp;(28 October),&nbsp;a spoken word series presented in partnership with the Edinburgh International Book Festival.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dancing in the Streets&nbsp;<\/strong>(20&nbsp;August)&nbsp;gives audiences&nbsp;an opportunity to&nbsp;travel&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;four corners of the world&nbsp;with the&nbsp;premiere of&nbsp;four&nbsp;specially commissioned&nbsp;dance works created for film by critically acclaimed choreographers&nbsp;<strong>Alice Ripoll<\/strong>&nbsp;from Rio de Janeiro,&nbsp;<strong>Omar Rajeh<\/strong>&nbsp;from Beirut,&nbsp;<strong>Gregory&nbsp;Maqoma<\/strong>&nbsp;from Soweto and&nbsp;<strong>Janice Parker<\/strong>&nbsp;from Edinburgh.&nbsp;Each of the four choreographers has produced a short film with their dancers&nbsp;responding to the past year and reflecting on their relationship with their home cities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dance programme is completed&nbsp;by a&nbsp;new film of&nbsp;<strong>Akram&nbsp;Khan\u2019s<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Chotto&nbsp;Xeno<\/em>s<em>,<\/em>&nbsp;available to stream on 14 and 15 August. Inspired by&nbsp;Akram&nbsp;Khan\u2019s solo show&nbsp;<em>XENOS<\/em>&nbsp;and created by Sue Buckmaster,&nbsp;<em>Chotto&nbsp;Xenos<\/em>&nbsp;visits the untold stories of colonial soldiers during the First World War.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Edinburgh International Festival&nbsp;also&nbsp;partners&nbsp;with major broadcasters to share the return of live performance with a wider audience.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BBC Radio 3<\/strong>&nbsp;will broadcast&nbsp;12 chamber performances&nbsp;from the Old College Quad&nbsp;in its flagship chamber music strand, the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert; Radio 3 in Concert will feature&nbsp;four&nbsp;evening&nbsp;concerts from Edinburgh Academy&nbsp;Junior School, including the&nbsp;<strong>BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra&nbsp;<\/strong>with&nbsp;<strong>Marin Alsop<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Joyce DiDonato<\/strong>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<strong>Il Pomo&nbsp;D\u2019Oro&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;the&nbsp;<strong>Benedetti Baroque Orchestra.&nbsp;<\/strong>All BBC Radio 3 recordings are available for 30 days after broadcast on BBC Sounds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highlights of the&nbsp;programme&nbsp;will be broadcast on&nbsp;<strong>Classic FM<\/strong>, the UK\u2019s most popular classical music station,&nbsp;on Friday 3 September, alongside video excerpts from five concerts featured on Classic FM\u2019s social media channels&nbsp;throughout August.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The International Festival is working with&nbsp;<strong>Linn Records<\/strong>&nbsp;to release a series of recordings&nbsp;throughout the autumn of 2021, exclusively on&nbsp;<strong>Apple Music<\/strong>. These recordings will include&nbsp;<em>A Grand Night for Singing<\/em>, Stravinsky\u2019s&nbsp;<em>A Soldier\u2019s Tale<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Ariadne auf Naxos<\/em>&nbsp;and compilations of orchestral and chamber highlights.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fergus Linehan, Festival Director, Edinburgh International Festival said:&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cWe are looking forward to reuniting artists and audiences once more in Edinburgh this summer, yet we appreciate that some people may not be able to join us in person this year. For the first time in the Festival\u2019s history, we are delighted to offer an extensive programme of digital works for audiences across the UK and around the world to enjoy from home.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p><em>\u201cWe are hugely grateful to\u00a0abrdn\u00a0for supporting the At Home programme and helping us to offer these extraordinary full-length performances free of charge. We also look forward to working with broadcasters BBC Radio 3, Classic FM and Apple Music to share the experience of the Festival with a wider audience.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Simon Bailey, Global Head of Brand Management at&nbsp;abrdn&nbsp;said:&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cWe\u2019re delighted to support the Edinburgh International Festival with their Digital Programme for 2021. Offering\u00a0global audiences the opportunity to experience such a diverse programme of live performances is very exciting. This is a difficult time for the arts, but the Edinburgh International Festival continues to thrill and entertain audiences worldwide and we\u2019re very happy to continue our association.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UK Culture Minister Caroline&nbsp;Dinenage&nbsp;said:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m hugely impressed by the extensive digital programme Edinburgh International Festival has put together with support from our Digital Accelerator Fund. We launched this fund to help Edinburgh&#8217;s Festivals build back better from the pandemic and, thanks to this funding, culture lovers\u00a0from around the world can enjoy these events again.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eif.co.uk\/at-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.eif.co.uk\/at-home<\/a>&nbsp;for full details of Edinburgh International Festival&nbsp;At&nbsp;Home in partnership with&nbsp;<strong>abrdn<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Edinburgh International Festival&nbsp;At&nbsp;Home in partnership with&nbsp;abrdn\u2019&nbsp;digital programme&nbsp;includes&nbsp;18&nbsp;full length performances available for free online throughout 2021.&nbsp;&nbsp; The digital programme includes&nbsp;the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicola Benedetti, the&nbsp;Chineke! Orchestra, Malcolm Martineau, the National Theatre of Scotland and&nbsp;Talisk.&nbsp; Partnerships with&nbsp;BBC Radio&nbsp;3, Classic FM and Apple Music&nbsp;allow audiences more options to view or listen to the programme from their own&nbsp;home. For the first time in its 74-year history, the&nbsp;Edinburgh&nbsp;International Festival&nbsp;offers audiences&nbsp;worldwide&nbsp;the opportunity to experience&nbsp;performances&nbsp;from&nbsp;the comfort of&nbsp;their own homes, with&nbsp;18&nbsp;full-length performances available to watch for free online.&nbsp;The world\u2019s leading performing arts&nbsp;festival presents its digital programme in partnership with global investment&nbsp;brand&nbsp;abrdn.&nbsp;&nbsp; As<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":10884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beststartup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/R3JlZ3NjcmVlbnNob3QuSlBH-1.jpeg?fit=1269%2C843&ssl=1","wps_subtitle":"The Edinburgh International Festival At Home in partnership with abrdn digital programme features 18 full length performances available for free throughout 2021, including Gregory Maqoma\u2019s Retrace Retract in Dancing in the Streets. 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