Performing Arts

Until 6 Oct

Capital Theatres has launched a Crowdfunder campaign and petition in an urgent appeal for support to prevent the closure of Edinburgh’s King’s and Festival theatres.

Throughout 2020

Edinburgh International Film Festival has launched a monthly drive-in cinema at Edinburgh Airport showing at weekends for the rest of the year, featuring up to four screenings a day.

£168,000 of National Lottery emergency support has been granted to three Edinburgh theatres facing enormous revenue losses.

Proving that limitations can actually be a boon to creativity, Scottish Ballet have been busy developing and extending their range of community projects throughout the pandemic lockdown. Staff, crew and talent have been stretching their skills and imagination with a swathe of inventive missions. Their ever popular online digital health classes have ballooned, helping the

Online, until 19 Aug

The Scottish Ensemble is inviting the public to contribute to a new piece of music based on one of composer Pauline Oliveros’ 1971 Sonic Meditations.

Online, 23 – 26 Jul

During a packed four days online, the 43rd Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival will feature a variety of content to intrigue and excite the jazz-enthusiast.

Online

The Scottish Ensemble is taking the opportunity to showcase many of its achievements over its 50-year history online, due to the current lockdown.

1 Aug – 6 Sep

A series of drive-in concerts, theatre performances, comedy shows and opera, featuring many household names, is set to take place near urban centres across the UK, including Edinburgh’s Royal Highland Centre.

Online performances

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra online ‘RSNO Friday Night Club’ has its final concert on Friday 3rd July – part of RSNO’s continuing programme of online engagement.

Online theatre

A season of fifty short digital artworks from Scotland’s National Theatre features several of Scotland’s best-known actors working from isolation on new scripts, in support of a hardship fund for the many in the performing arts affected adversely by the Covid crisis.

Online festival, 24 Jun – 5 Jul

Edinburgh International Film Festival is the world’s oldest continually-running film festival and this year moves online with #EdFilmFestAtHome, showing the best upcoming cinema including fascinating previews and big names in discussion.

Online festival, 19 -20 Jun

Scotland’s Festival of Dance on Screen, combining choreography and moving image, presents an online programme showcasing work connecting local, national and international artists to audiences.

First performed at the 2019 Glasgow Cathedral Festival (GCF), Dhatu by Edwin Hillier has been announced as the winner of the Electroacoustic / Sound Artwork category in the fourth annual Scottish Awards for New Music.

22 Apr

St Margaret’s centre in Braemar is marking Earth Day with a video event on April 22nd launching a collaborative work incorporating new music, science, animation and images telling the story of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Online

Following the suspension of its concert programme, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra has introduced a number of ways you can watch some of Scotland’s most talented musicians online.

Online

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra has launched never-before-seen concert footage as part of their new online ‘RSNO Friday Night Club’, enabling people to enjoy music while staying at home.

26 – 31 Mar

Note: cancelled due to public health situation. James MacMillan’s landmark setting of the dying words of Jesus Christ, Seven Last Words from the Cross will be performed by the Scottish Ensemble and Dunedin Consort in the former’s 50th anniversary year, across Scotland and in London.

19, 22 Mar

Note: cancelled due to public health situation. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs ‘one of the most beautiful, most moving and in its own way most profoundly spiritual choral works of the 19th century’, by Johannes Brahms, alongside avant-garde master Luigi Nono’s visionary orchestral-electronic ‘Per Bastiana Tai-Yang Cheng’.

May – Jun

Note: check performers’ websites for information re. public health situation. Marking the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth, here are some highlights of forthcoming performances in May and June.

Until 30 May

Joan Clevillé’s re-imagination of Sophocles’ classic story for a contemporary world, told through the body and the voice of a single performer.