SALISBURY International Arts Festival has announced six events for 2015, including a production of King John to coincide with the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta Organisers unveiled six highlight events to festival friends and invited guests at a launch event on Monday at the Guildhall, Salisbury.

Next year the festival will celebrate the arts of Istanbul and the Middle East, while also taking inspiration from sunrise and new beginnings.

Details of the full programme will be revealed to all at the main festival launch on March 2.

The highlights for 2015 are: King John by Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in co-production with Royal & Derngate Northampton, performed in Salisbury Cathedral just a few feet away from the best surviving copy of King’s John’s Magna Carta and alongside the tomb of his half-brother William Longspée.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra playing Rimsky-Korsakov’s musical depiction of the Arabian Nights, Scheherazade, in the medieval majesty of Salisbury Cathedral.

Israel in Egypt, one of Handel’s finest oratorios in English, performed by leading vocal and instrumental ensemble La Nuova Musica in a score packed with musical drama.

World music at its finest with Trio Joubran, three Palestinian brothers weaving magical sounds on the Arabic lute or oud.

Elvis Costello drawing upon 35 years of back catalogue in a solo show.

Australia’s leading circus company Circa performing a feat of acrobatics in a show entitled simply ‘S’.

Festival friends can book tickets to six highlight events now.

Booking opens to the general public on Tuesday, December 9.