Festival 2009
Friday 14 August - Sunday 6 September

Wednesday 25 March 2009
Programme announced and priority booking opens for Festival Patrons and Muses, fax, postal and online.

Saturday 4 April 2009
Public booking opens, telephone, postal, in person and online.

How to Book

Online - use the event search facility above.
Telephone 0131 473 2000
Overseas +44 131 473 2000

Hub Tickets, The Hub, Castlehill, Edinburgh EH1 2NE

Hub Tickets Opening Hours

Saturday 4 April-Thursday 30 July
Monday to Saturday 10.00am to 5.00pm

Friday 31 July-Saturday 5 September
Monday to Saturday 9.00am to 7.30pm
Sunday 10.00am to 7.30pm
Sunday 6 September 1.00pm to 6.00pm

Ticket Sales At Venues

You can buy tickets for any Festival events from The Edinburgh Playhouse and The Queen's Hall from 6 April and from the Edinburgh Festival Theatre from 1 May.

During the Festival, tickets are available during the day to personal callers at Festival venues except King's Theatre, Greyfriars Kirk, Canongate Kirk, Traverse Theatre, St Cecilia's Music Hall and Lowland Hall, Ingliston. Any unsold tickets go on sale at those venues an hour before the performance. 

Ticket Collection

If you do not ask for your tickets to be posted to you, or if you book close to the performance date, you can collect them from the venue from one hour before the performance starts. Prior to that, tickets are held at Hub Tickets until lunchtime on the performance day, or the evening before for morning or afternoon events. 

Tickets for Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert

Sunday 6 September 9.00pm
Princes Street Gardens

Ross Theatre tickets [£25] go on sale with all other Festival tickets.

Princes Street Gardens tickets [£10] are allocated in three ways:

1] By postal ballot, limited to six per customer. Please send an application and payment made to Hub Tickets, separate from any other Festival tickets, and remember to include a stamped addressed envelope. Closing date for the ballot is Monday 25 May.

2] Online - an allocation will be released for sale at 11.00am on Monday 27 July at eif.co.uk These are limited to four per customer.

3] The final allocation will go on sale on Sunday 30 August at 10.00am only from the counter at The Hub. These are limited to four per customer.

Access Information and Discounts

The Edinburgh International Festival welcomes disabled visitors. An Access Guide with full details of all facilities for disabled visitors is available on request and both the Access Guide and the Festival brochure are available in Braille, audio and large print formats.

Wheelchair users, people with severe mobility difficulties or with visual or hearing impairment will be sold seats/spaces at £10 in the area of the venue most appropriate to their needs (dress circle normally excluded). This discount also applies to a companion.

To claim an access discount, to request information or for advice on any aspect of your Festival experience, please call the access line +44 (0)131 473 2000 or email access@eif.co.uk

British sign language interpreted performances

The Last Witch Thursday 27 August 2.30pm
Peter and Wendy Friday 4 September 7.30pm

Audio described performances with touch tours

The Last Witch Friday 28 August 7.30pm
Peter and Wendy Friday 4 September 7.30pm

Touch Tours begin at 6.15pm. Please call the access line to book your free place.

Performances with English supertitles

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (page 8), Admeto, re di Tessaglia (page 10), Actus tragicus (page 12), Faust (page 26), Tondal's Vision (page 29).

Thank you for playing a leading role!

A big thank you to all those whose contributions have helped us to present the 2009 Festival programme. It is only through your generosity that we are able to bring the very best of opera, music, theatre, dance and visual art to the widest possible audience.

There are many ways in which you can make a difference:

• Make a donation when you book your tickets - simply round it up
• Become a Benefactor, Patron or Friend
• Make regular donations
• Support a performance
• Remember us in your will

Visit eif.co.uk/membership or call 0131 473 2000 for further info 

The Edinburgh International Festival is registered Charity Number: SC004694