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- The Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama was first discussed over a lunch table in a restaurant in Hanover Square, London, towards the end of 1944.
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The Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama was first discussed over a lunch table in a restaurant in Hanover Square, London, towards the end of 1944. Rudolf Bing, convinced that musical and operatic festivals on anything like the pre-war scale were unlikely to be held in any of the shattered and impoverished centres for many years ...
According to festival folklore, the idea for the Edinburgh International Festival was born one starry night in 1942, when our soon-to-be first director Rudolf Bing and soprano Audrey Mildmay were strolling down Princes Street after watching a performance of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera. Edinburgh Castle was bathed in moonlight.
Aug 2, 2023 · The first event, then called the 'International Festival of Music and Drama' took place in 1947, with Austrian-born impresario Rudolf Bing acting as festival director and head of programming.
It was founded in 1947 by Rudolf Bing and is held for three weeks each summer in Edinburgh. Its theatrical offerings include plays by major international theatrical companies; plays premiered at the festival include T.S. Eliot’s The Cocktail Party (1949) and Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker (1954).
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On Sunday 24 August 1947, the first Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama opened with a service of praise in St Giles' Cathedral, the Mother Kirk of Scottish Presbyterianism.
Aug 4, 2022 · For Edinburgh, this was its Festival’s first true international blockbuster concert, as the debut year’s programme delivered on its promise and set up many more major events to come. Walter ...
Between September 1946, when plans were finally approved by the corporation, and the opening of the Edinburgh International Festival on 23 August 1947, attention was given to the actual organisation of the Festival, in terms of its administration and content and also, crucially, securing enough funding for the venture.
