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   Why was the Edinburgh International Festival created?

   • But first, a little history. In the years after World War II, Austrian opera impresario Sir Rudolf Bing created the Edinburgh International Festival with the intention of healing the cultural wounds in the U.K. following the devastation of the war.

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   Who started the International Festival?

   • The original festival. We’re the one that started it all, the igniting spark which established Edinburgh as the world’s Festival City. Our Origin Story Founded in 1947, the International Festival was the inspired idea of Rudolf Bing, a cultural pioneer and Jewish refugee of the Nazi regime.

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   When did Edinburgh start a festival?

   • On Saturday 24 November 1945, the plan for an International Festival in Edinburgh was announced in three newspaper articles in The Scotsmanand theEvening Dispatch, which later became the Evening News. An avalanche of letters from Edinburgh residents arrived on editors' desks, both for and against the notion of a festival.

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   Who was the first director of the Edinburgh Festival?

   • Under the first festival director, the distinguished Austrian-born impresario Rudolf Bing, it had a broadly-based programme, covering orchestral, choral and chamber music, Lieder and song, opera, ballet, drama, film, and Scottish 'piping and dancing' on the Esplanade of Edinburgh Castle, a structure that was followed in subsequent years.

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   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.

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   Bing also co-founded the Festival with Henry Harvey Wood, Head of the British Council in Scotland, Sidney Newman, Reid Professor of Music at Edinburgh University, and a group of civic leaders from the City of Edinburgh, in particular Sir John Falconer .

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   Edinburgh International Festival, international festival of the arts, with an emphasis on music and drama. 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.

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   Jul 20, 2023 · In the years after World War II, Austrian opera impresario Sir Rudolf Bing created the Edinburgh International Festival with the intention of healing the cultural wounds in the U.K. following...

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   Aug 12, 2014 · Indeed, the Edinburgh International Festival just sold over 13,000 tickets for its first weekend – a new record. But in 1947, when the festival began, many were dubious about the prospect.

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   Join Mike Lewis to hear about the origins and colourful history of Edinburgh International Festival. Mike will recount how an Austrian refugee, an English landowner and a war-time civil defence chief joined forces to create, out of the ruins and chaos of a world at war, what was to become a world-class festival of music and drama.

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