I have just spent over £500 on Edinburgh Festival tickets so I feel free to make some critical comments on the Festival programme and invite all festival goers to make comments as well.Last year we launched the Ear because we were frustrated with the critics treatment of the music and opera programme in particular their savaging of Gustavo Dudamel.We were rewarded with 1500 people visiting the site in the 2 weeks of the Festival we covered.This year we are launching the EAR well in advance and invite your participation.My initial impressions are that we have more opera this year but only one properly staged opera, the Festival Theatre which we fought for over a long period is dark most evenings and the orchestral choices are not too exciting, what do you think?
