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The Edinburgh International Festival is a festival of music, theatre, opera, dance, visual arts and literature that takes place every year in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. Each year it is held for about three weeks in late August and early September.

The festival started in 1947. Since 1999 the permanent home of the festival is at The Hub, near Edinburgh Castle. Several large theatres, concert halls and churches in Edinburgh are used for the events, e.g. Usher Hall, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Playhouse, The Queen's Hall and The Hub.

Since 2006 the director of the festival has been Jonathan Mills.

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  • King's Theatre, Edinburgh (1981)

    The King's Theatre in 1981. This venue was used for opera in the early years of the festival.

  • Fonteyn Helpmann Sleeping Beauty Sadler's Wells US tour (2)

    Fonteyn and Helpmann, The Sleeping Beauty, Sadler's Wells 1950

  • The Usher Hall, Edinburgh

    The Usher Hall, the leading venue of the Edinburgh International Festival

  • Former Tolbooth Church, Castlehill, Edinburgh

    The 240-foot-high spire of The Hub, seen from Johnston Terrace

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