When Pamela Epps went to an opera performance 70 years ago she hardly imagined it would start a habit of a lifetime. But after experiencing the first Edinburgh Festival in 1947, she has been back every year since.

Now aged 90, the culture-loving former doctor, who lives in Barnton, is preparing to return to the Festival in its 70th year. Her remarkable feat of cultural allegiance over the last seven decades began with the Macbeth opera, the very first to be performed at the then newly established Festival.

“It made my head explode,” explained Dr Epps, a former GP in Newington who still remembers the very first sound that hooked her for life. “I had never been to an opera before and when the actress began to sing it blew me away.

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