Record for Festivals just the ticket
by TIM CORNWELL for the Scotsman

The figures mark a welcome turnaround. The Scottish Executive and the City of Edinburgh Council stepped in with hundreds of thousands of pounds for both those festivals earlier this year after warnings that budget gaps could leave them with badly weakened programmes.

published: August 30, 2005

What’s lust in translation?
by ROWENA SMITH for the Scotland Herald

The work in question was L'Amour Masque, and some 30 years later, Pisani achieved his dream when the Opera de Tours staged a new production, one that the company is now bringing to the Edinburgh Festival. Second time around, however, Pisani isn't dancing in the chorus. He's directing the production, not to mention choreographing it – and appearing on stage in one of the secondary principal roles.

published: August 31, 2005

Curtain raised on search for Festival chief
by GINA DAVIDSON for the Edinburgh Evenibng News

The search to replace Sir Brian McMaster, below, who takes his final bow after 15 years as director of the Edinburgh International Festival next year, is on.

The nine-man search committee of the EIF hope to announce Sir Brian's successor by next spring, and as the job is one of the most prestigious and exciting in the world of performing arts, speculation as to just who will fill his not inconsiderable shoes is rife.

published: October 20, 2005