Venue: Royal Albert HallWorktype: Opera / Oratorio| Date | Event | Composers, Works, Performers |
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| Sunday 14-Jul-13 07:30pm |
 Royal Albert Hall, LondonProm 4 BBC Proms |
Lully, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: excerpts (overture and dances) Rameau, Les Indes Galantes (dances) Massenet, Le Cid: ballet suite (excerpts)  |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Sunday 14-Jul-13 07:30pm Prom 4 An evening of riot and revolution in dance music from the court of Louis XIV to the Ballets Russes. François-Xavier Roth directs Les Siècles in the first period-instrument performance at the Proms of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, marking the work’s centenary. Suites from Lully’s piquant social comedy Le bourgeois gentilhomme, Rameau’s Les Indes galantes, Delibes’s Coppélia and Massenet’s Moorish romance Le Cid provide more than two centuries of historical context for the work that scandalised and galvanised Paris at its 1913 premiere. Tickets £9.50 - £46. Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687), Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: excerpts (overture and dances) Massenet, Jules (1842-1912), Le Cid: ballet suite (excerpts) | ||
| Friday 19-Jul-13 10:15pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 11 BBC Proms |
Stockhausen, Mittwoch aus Licht (concert performance, London première) |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Friday 19-Jul-13 10:15pm Prom 11 Last summer Graham Vick’s Birmingham Opera Company transformed a disused factory in Digbeth, Birmingham, into the fantastical world of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s epic opera Mittwoch aus ‘Licht’ with two bactrian camels, four helicopters and a wash of yellow light. Tonight Ex Cathedra and Jeffrey Skidmore revisit the Babel tower of the opera’s most dazzling section, Welt-Parlament (‘World Parliament’): a multilingual a cappella tour de force of extended vocal techniques. Written 30 years earlier, Gesang der Jünglinge has been hailed as Stockhausen’s first electronic masterpiece, a mind-popping sonic translation of the biblical story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.Tickets £12 - £16. Stockhausen, Karlheinz (1928-2007), Mittwoch aus Licht (concert performance, London première) | ||
| Monday 22-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 14 BBC Proms |
Wagner, Das Rheingold (concert performance, sung in German) Iain Paterson, Baritone: Wotan Stephan Rügamer, Tenor: Loge Jan Buchwald, Bass-baritone: Donner Marius Vlad, Tenor: Froh Ekaterina Gubanova, Mezzo-soprano: Fricka Anna Samuil, Soprano: Freia Anna Larsson, Mezzo-soprano: Erda Johannes Martin Kränzle, Baritone: Alberich Peter Bronder, Tenor: Mime Iain Paterson, Bass: Fasolt Eric Halfvarson, Bass: Fafner Aga Mikolaj, Soprano: Woglinde Maria Gortsevskaya, Soprano: Wellgunde Anna Lapkovskaja, Mezzo-soprano: Flosshilde Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Monday 22-Jul-13 07:00pm Prom 14 Stolen gold, slave labour and a world order on the edge of collapse. Daniel Barenboim launches his Proms Ring cycle (and conducts his first Wagner opera in the UK ), following his Beethoven symphony cycle last year. The Staatskapelle Berlin explores the corrupting influence of the all-powerful ring with a cast mined from Barenboim’s recent Berlin and Milan Ring cycles.Tickets £18 - £68. Wagner, Richard (1813-1883), Das Rheingold (concert performance, sung in German) Iain Paterson, Baritone: Wotan Stephan Rügamer, Tenor: Loge Jan Buchwald, Bass-baritone: Donner Marius Vlad, Tenor: Froh Ekaterina Gubanova, Mezzo-soprano: Fricka Anna Samuil, Soprano: Freia Anna Larsson, Mezzo-soprano: Erda Johannes Martin Kränzle, Baritone: Alberich Peter Bronder, Tenor: Mime Iain Paterson, Bass: Fasolt Eric Halfvarson, Bass: Fafner Aga Mikolaj, Soprano: Woglinde Maria Gortsevskaya, Soprano: Wellgunde Anna Lapkovskaja, Mezzo-soprano: Flosshilde Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor | ||
| Tuesday 23-Jul-13 05:00pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 15 BBC Proms |
Wagner, Die Walküre (concert performance, sung in German) Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone: Wotan Simon O'Neill, Tenor: Siegmund Anja Kampe, Soprano: Sieglinde Eric Halfvarson, Bass: Hunding Nina Stemme, Soprano: Brünnhilde Ekaterina Gubanova, Mezzo-soprano: Fricka Danielle Halbwachs, Soprano: Gerhilde Carola Höhn, Soprano: Ortlinde Ivonne Fuchs, Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Anaïk Morel, Contralto: Schwertleite Susan Foster, Soprano: Helmwige Leann Sandel-Pantaleo, Mezzo-soprano: Siegrune Anna Lapkovskaja, Mezzo-soprano: Grimgerde Simone Schröder, Mezzo-soprano: Rossweisse Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Tuesday 23-Jul-13 05:00pm Prom 15 Daniel Barenboim’s Proms Ring cycle with the Staatskapelle Berlin continues with the razored strings and yelping brass of a violent storm, the cloudburst of incestuous love, a bitter marital dispute and the first appearance of Wotan’s rebel daughter, Brünnhilde, sung by a leading exponent of the role, Nina Stemme.Tickets £18 - £68.There will be two intervals of 30 minutes. Wagner, Richard (1813-1883), Die Walküre (concert performance, sung in German) Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone: Wotan Simon O'Neill, Tenor: Siegmund Anja Kampe, Soprano: Sieglinde Eric Halfvarson, Bass: Hunding Nina Stemme, Soprano: Brünnhilde Ekaterina Gubanova, Mezzo-soprano: Fricka Danielle Halbwachs, Soprano: Gerhilde Carola Höhn, Soprano: Ortlinde Ivonne Fuchs, Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Anaïk Morel, Contralto: Schwertleite Susan Foster, Soprano: Helmwige Leann Sandel-Pantaleo, Mezzo-soprano: Siegrune Anna Lapkovskaja, Mezzo-soprano: Grimgerde Simone Schröder, Mezzo-soprano: Rossweisse Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor | ||
| Friday 26-Jul-13 05:00pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 18 BBC Proms |
Lance Ryan, Tenor: Siegfried Nina Stemme, Soprano: Brünnhilde Terje Stensvold, Bass-baritone: Wanderer Peter Bronder, Tenor: Mime Johannes Martin Kränzle, Tenor: Alberich Eric Halfvarson, Bass: Fafner Rinnat Moriah, Soprano: Waldvogel (the woodbird) Anna Larsson, Contralto: Erda Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Friday 26-Jul-13 05:00pm Prom 18 Daniel Barenboim’s survey of Wagner’s epic tetralogy reaches its third instalment, introducing the naive hero Siegfried. Lance Ryan sings the role of the dragon-slaying innocent who only learns fear when he falls in love with Brünnhilde (Nina Stemme).Tickets £18 - £68.There will be two intervals of 30 minutes. Wagner, Richard (1813-1883), Siegfried (concert performance, sung in German) Lance Ryan, Tenor: Siegfried Nina Stemme, Soprano: Brünnhilde Terje Stensvold, Bass-baritone: Wanderer Peter Bronder, Tenor: Mime Johannes Martin Kränzle, Tenor: Alberich Eric Halfvarson, Bass: Fafner Rinnat Moriah, Soprano: Waldvogel (the woodbird) Anna Larsson, Contralto: Erda Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor | ||
| Saturday 27-Jul-13 05:00pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 19 BBC Proms |
Wagner, Tristan and Isolde (concert performance, sung in German) Peter Seiffert, Tenor: Tristan Kwangchul Youn, Bass: King Marke Violeta Urmana, Soprano: Isolde Boaz Daniel, Baritone: Kurwenal David Wilson-Johnson, Bass: Melot Sophie Koch, Mezzo-soprano: Brangäne Andrew Staples, Tenor: Shepherd BBC Singers BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Semyon Bychkov, Conductor |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Saturday 27-Jul-13 05:00pm Prom 19 The Wagner bicentenary celebrations continue with the composer’s boldest fusion of legend and harmonic innovation, Tristan and Isolde, which forced him to break off work on his Ring cycle near this very juncture in the Proms Ring – during the composition of Siegfried and before the final instalment, Götterdämmerung. Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and a cast led by Violeta Urmana and Peter Seiffert in a drama where love and death become one.Tickets £9.50 - £46.Therre will be two intervals of 30 minutes. Wagner, Richard (1813-1883), Tristan and Isolde (concert performance, sung in German) Peter Seiffert, Tenor: Tristan Kwangchul Youn, Bass: King Marke Violeta Urmana, Soprano: Isolde Boaz Daniel, Baritone: Kurwenal David Wilson-Johnson, Bass: Melot Sophie Koch, Mezzo-soprano: Brangäne Andrew Staples, Tenor: Shepherd BBC Singers BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Semyon Bychkov, Conductor | ||
| Sunday 28-Jul-13 04:30pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 20 BBC Proms |
Wagner, Götterdämmerung (concert performance, sung in German) Nina Stemme, Soprano: Brünnhilde Ian Storey, Tenor: Siegfried Mikhail Petrenko, Bass: Hagen Gerd Grochowski, Baritone: Gunther Anna Samuil, Soprano: Gutrune Johannes Martin Kränzle, Baritone: Alberich Waltraud Meier, Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Margarita Nekrasova, Mezzo-soprano: First Norn Aga Mikolaj, Soprano: Woglinde Maria Gortsevskaya, Contralto: Wellgunde Anna Lapkovskaja, Mezzo-soprano: Flosshilde Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Sunday 28-Jul-13 04:30pm Prom 20 Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin conclude the Proms Ring cycle with Götterdämmerung – unleashing the final chain of betrayals that culminates in the destruction of the gods. Ian Storey is the tragic hero Siegfried, Nina Stemme the fallen valkyrie Brünnhilde, while Mikhail Petrenko sings Hagen, born to hatred and despair.Tickets £18 - £68.There will be two intervals of 30 minutes. Wagner, Richard (1813-1883), Götterdämmerung (concert performance, sung in German) Nina Stemme, Soprano: Brünnhilde Ian Storey, Tenor: Siegfried Mikhail Petrenko, Bass: Hagen Gerd Grochowski, Baritone: Gunther Anna Samuil, Soprano: Gutrune Johannes Martin Kränzle, Baritone: Alberich Waltraud Meier, Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Margarita Nekrasova, Mezzo-soprano: First Norn Aga Mikolaj, Soprano: Woglinde Maria Gortsevskaya, Contralto: Wellgunde Anna Lapkovskaja, Mezzo-soprano: Flosshilde Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Conductor | ||
| Sunday 4-Aug-13 06:00pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 29 BBC Proms |
Wagner, Tannhäuser (concert performance, sung in German) Robert Dean Smith, Tenor: Tannhäuser Heidi Melton, Soprano: Elisabeth Daniela Sindram, Mezzo-soprano: Venus Ain Anger, Bass: Landgraf Hermann Christoph Pohl, Baritone: Wolfram von Eschenbach Thomas Blondelle, Tenor: Walther von der Vogelweide Andrew Rees, Tenor: Heinrich der Schreiber Brian Bannatyne-Scott, Bass: Reinmar von Zweter Ashley Holland, Bass: Biterolf Hila Fahima, Soprano: Shepherd Boy Berlin Deutsche Opera Chorus BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Donald Runnicles, Conductor |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Sunday 4-Aug-13 06:00pm Prom 29 In their second Proms appearance together, Donald Runnicles and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra turn to Tannhäuser. Robert Dean Smith sings the role of the troubadour who tires of Venus’s charms and yearns for spiritual redemption. Elisabeth is the woman who loves him, Wolfram the man who loves her.Tickets £9.50 - £46. Wagner, Richard (1813-1883), Tannhäuser (concert performance, sung in German) Robert Dean Smith, Tenor: Tannhäuser Heidi Melton, Soprano: Elisabeth Daniela Sindram, Mezzo-soprano: Venus Ain Anger, Bass: Landgraf Hermann Christoph Pohl, Baritone: Wolfram von Eschenbach Thomas Blondelle, Tenor: Walther von der Vogelweide Andrew Rees, Tenor: Heinrich der Schreiber Brian Bannatyne-Scott, Bass: Reinmar von Zweter Ashley Holland, Bass: Biterolf Hila Fahima, Soprano: Shepherd Boy Berlin Deutsche Opera Chorus BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Donald Runnicles, Conductor | ||
| Friday 16-Aug-13 06:30pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 45 BBC Proms |
Tippett, The Midsummer Marriage (concert performance) Paul Groves, Tenor: Mark Erin Wall, Soprano: Jenifer Peter Sidhom, Baritone: King Fisher Ailish Tynan, Soprano: Bella Allan Clayton, Tenor: Jack Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mezzo-soprano: Madame Sosostris David Soar, Bass: He-Ancient Madeleine Shaw, Soprano: She-Ancient BBC Singers BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis, Conductor |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Friday 16-Aug-13 06:30pm Prom 45 Last heard at the Proms in 1977, The Midsummer Marriage is Tippett’s answer to Mozart’s The Magic Flute, an opera rich in symbolism and psychology, trials and transformations. Paul Groves and Erin Wall are Mark and Jenifer, Ailish Tynan and Allan Clayton, Bella and Jack, two couples tested by a series of supernatural interventions on the shortest night of the year. One of today’s leading Tippett exponents, Sir Andrew Davis conducts the centrepiece of this summer’s Proms focus on Tippett’s music alongside Britten’s centenary.Tickets £9.50 - £46. Tippett, Michael (1905-1998), The Midsummer Marriage (concert performance) Paul Groves, Tenor: Mark Erin Wall, Soprano: Jenifer Peter Sidhom, Baritone: King Fisher Ailish Tynan, Soprano: Bella Allan Clayton, Tenor: Jack Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mezzo-soprano: Madame Sosostris David Soar, Bass: He-Ancient Madeleine Shaw, Soprano: She-Ancient BBC Singers BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis, Conductor | ||
| Sunday 25-Aug-13 04:30pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 57 BBC Proms |
Lars Cleveman, Tenor: Parsifal Katarina Dalayman, Soprano: Kundry Robert Holl, Bass: Gurnemanz Iain Paterson, Bass: Amfortas Tom Fox, Baritone: Klingsor Reinhard Hagen, Bass: Titurel Robert Murray, Tenor: First knight of the Grail Andrew Greenan, Bass: Second knight of the Grail Sarah Castle, Contralto: First squire Madeleine Shaw, Soprano: Second squire Andrew Rees, Tenor: Third squire Joshua Ellicott, Tenor: Fourth squire Elizabeth Cragg, Soprano: Klingsor's Flower Maiden Sarah-Jane Brandon, Soprano: Klingsor's Flower Maiden Anita Watson, Soprano: Klingsor's Flower Maiden Trinity Boys' Choir The Hallé Youth Choir The Hallé Sir Mark Elder, Conductor |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Sunday 25-Aug-13 04:30pm Prom 57 Sir Mark Elder conducts the Hallé in Parsifal, Wagner’s final epic drama of renunciation and redemption, with Robert Holl as Gurnemanz, the veteran Knight of the Grail. Lars Cleveman is the Holy Fool Parsifal and Katarina Dalayman the penitential Magdalen figure, Kundry.Tickets £9.50 - £46. Wagner, Richard (1813-1883), Parsifal (concert performance, sung in German) Lars Cleveman, Tenor: Parsifal Katarina Dalayman, Soprano: Kundry Robert Holl, Bass: Gurnemanz Iain Paterson, Bass: Amfortas Tom Fox, Baritone: Klingsor Reinhard Hagen, Bass: Titurel Robert Murray, Tenor: First knight of the Grail Andrew Greenan, Bass: Second knight of the Grail Sarah Castle, Contralto: First squire Madeleine Shaw, Soprano: Second squire Andrew Rees, Tenor: Third squire Joshua Ellicott, Tenor: Fourth squire Elizabeth Cragg, Soprano: Klingsor's Flower Maiden Sarah-Jane Brandon, Soprano: Klingsor's Flower Maiden Anita Watson, Soprano: Klingsor's Flower Maiden Trinity Boys' Choir The Hallé Youth Choir The Hallé Sir Mark Elder, Conductor | ||
| Tuesday 27-Aug-13 07:00pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 60 BBC Proms |
Britten, Billy Budd (semi-staged performance) Jacques Imbrailo, Baritone: Billy Budd Mark Padmore, Tenor: Captain Vere Brindley Sherratt, Bass: John Claggart Stephen Gadd, Baritone: Mr Redburn David Soar, Bass: Mr Flint Darren Jeffery, Baritone: Lieutenant Ratcliffe Alasdair Elliott, Tenor: Red Whiskers Jeremy White, Bass: Dansker John Michael Moore, Baritone: Donald Peter Gijsbertsen, Tenor: Novice Colin Judson, Tenor: Squeak Richard Mosley-Evans, Baritone: Bosun Glyndebourne Festival Opera London Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis, Conductor |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Tuesday 27-Aug-13 07:00pm Prom 60 Sir Andrew Davis conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the cast and chorus of Glyndebourne Festival’s production of Britten’s Billy Budd. Adapted by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier from Herman Melville’s unfinished novella, Britten’s 1951 opera on the persecution and destruction of pure-hearted sailor Billy by a predatory master-at-arms is a tragedy of ‘sexual discharge gone evil’ in the Napoleonic Wars. Jacques Imbrailo sings the title-role, with Brindley Sherratt as the sinister Claggart and Mark Padmore as the rule-bound Pontius Pilate figure, Captain ‘Starry’ Vere.Tickets £14 - £57. Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976), Billy Budd, Op.50 (semi-staged performance) Jacques Imbrailo, Baritone: Billy Budd Mark Padmore, Tenor: Captain Vere Brindley Sherratt, Bass: John Claggart Stephen Gadd, Baritone: Mr Redburn David Soar, Bass: Mr Flint Darren Jeffery, Baritone: Lieutenant Ratcliffe Alasdair Elliott, Tenor: Red Whiskers Jeremy White, Bass: Dansker John Michael Moore, Baritone: Donald Peter Gijsbertsen, Tenor: Novice Colin Judson, Tenor: Squeak Richard Mosley-Evans, Baritone: Bosun Glyndebourne Festival Opera London Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis, Conductor | ||
