The Edinburgh International Festival has announced changes to how it is selling tickets for next year's festival - after complaints from music fans.
Earlier this year the EIF said it would, for the first time, be announcing its classical music concert programme ahead of the main programme.
The slate of concerts and recitals will be announced on February 3, and initially the festival said it would sell tickets for those concerts from that date.
However, now to avoid confusion and the possible changing of tickets once the full programme is announced in March, this decision has been reversed.
The festival said the change was made "in response to feedback from its audiences".
All tickets are now going on sale when the full programme is announced on 18 March allowing audiences to plan across all the different art forms when booking their tickets.
Fergus Linehan, the new director of the EIF, said: "We have been exploring ways of responding to requests to deliver programme information as early as possible.
"In light of feedback from a number of our customers we have revised our initial plan.
"While we will still launch our Concerts and Recitals programme in early February we will hold booking until the full programme is available in mid March when audiences can make their selection with sight of the entire festival schedule."
He added: "We are sorry for any concern which we may have caused audience members and hope that by responding in this way we will allay any difficulties."
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