Angel Blue, Latonia Moore, Jamie Barton, Corinne Winters & Christopher Maltman Lead BBC Proms’ 2024 Season

By Francisco Salazar

The BBC Proms has announced its 2024 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances.

Elim Chan conducts the First Night at Proms with soloists Sophie Bevan and Isata Kanneh‐Mason. The program includes Handel, Ben Nobuto, Beethoven Bruckner, and Clara Schumann.

Performance Date: July 19, 2024

British choral groups The King’s Singers and VOCES8 present a Prom that showcases pop classics with classical.

Performance Date: July 21, 2024

Sir Mark Elder conducts the entire Hallé family in Sir James MacMillan’s “Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia” and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5.

Performance Date: July 21, 2024

Ryan Bancroft conducts Verdi’s Requiem with Latonia Moore, Karen Cargill, SeokJong Baek, and Soloman Howard.

Performance Date: July 23, 2024

Countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński joins Il Pomo d’Oro for music by Caccini, Cavalli, Frescobaldi, Monteverdi, and Strozzi.

Performance Date: July 23, 2024

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Brahms’s Symphony No. 3 and Schoenberg’s “Verklärte Nacht. The program also includes mezzo-soprano Alice Coote in Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder.

Performance Date: July 25, 2024

Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Philharmonia Chorus perform Tchaikovsky’s “Francesca da Rimini alongside Debussy’s Nocturnes, Ives’s Three Places in New England and Ravel’s Piano Concerto, featuring Denis Kozhukhin.

Performance Date: August 1, 2024

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform music from Holst and Elgar’s Cello Concerto with Senja Rummukainen. Jess Dandy is the soloist in Jonathan Harvey’s “Tranquil Abiding.” Sakari Oramo conducts.

Performance Date: August 3, 2024

Henry Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen” will star Paulina Francisco, Georgia Burashko, Rebecca Leggett, Juliette Mey, Rodrigo Carreto, Ilja Aksionov, Hugo Herman-Wilson, and Benjamin Schilperoort. Paul Agnew conducts.

Performance Date: August 6, 2024

Sakari Oramo conducts soprano Silja Aalto and cellist Anssi Karttunen in a program of music Saariaho, Mozart, and Strauss.

Performance Date: August 9, 2024

James Atkinson, Michael Pandya, and Van Kuijk Quartet take on the music of Augusta Holmès, Claude Debussy, and Gabriel Fauré.

Performance Date: August 11, 2024

Christopher Maltman joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins in music by Elgar, Holst, and Vaughan Williams. Maltman performs Stanford’s songs.

Performance Date: August 13, 2024

Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Britten’s War Requiem. Soloists include Natalya Romaniw, Allan Clayton, and Will Liverman.

Performance Date: August 17, 2024

Masaaki Suzuki conducts Bach’s St John Passion with Benjamin Bruns, Christian Immler, Yusuke Watanabe, Carolyn Sampson, Alexander Chance, and Shimon Yoshida.

Performance Date: August 19, 2024

Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Brenden Gunnell, and Christopher Purves lead Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Nicholas Collon.

Performance Date: August 21, 2024

Jamie Barton and Dalia Stasevska perform music by Sibelius, Mahler, and Eastman.

Performance Date: August 24, 2024

The BBC Singers led by Sofi Jeannin will perform music by John Tavener, John Pickard, and Benjamin Britten.

Performance Date: August 25, 2024

Sakari Oramo conducts Lara Poe’s Laulut maaseudulta (Songs from the Countryside), Jean Sibelius’s “The Wood Nymph” and Gustav Holst’s “The Planets.” Soloists include Anu Komsi.

Performance Date: August 25, 2024

Jakub Hrůša conducts Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass with Corinne Winters, Bella Adamova, David Butt Philip, Brindley Sherratt, and Christian Schmitt. Mao Fujita performs Dvořák’s Piano Concerto in G minor. The concert also includes Vítězslava Kaprálová’s Military Sinfonietta.

Performance Date: August 28, 2024

Rihab Chaieb leads Bizet’s “Carmen” with Evan LeRoy Johnson, Lukasz Goliński, and Janai Brugger. Anja Bihlmaier conducts.

Performance Date: August 29, 2024

Synergy Vocals and BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Schumann, Stravinsky, and Steve Reich.

Performance Date: August 30, 2024

The BBC Proms presents a sequence of songs and arias for voice and lute, devised by and featuring soprano Nardus Williams, classicist and historian Dame Mary Beard, and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny.

Performance Date: Sept. 1, 2024

Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker and BBC Singers in a program of music by Bruckner.

Performance Date: Sept. 1, 2024

Golda Schultz, Laurence Kilsby, and Thomas Mole perform in a program of music by Ravel, Boulanger, and Fauré. Stéphane Denève conducts.

Performance Date: Sept. 4, 2024

Eric Whitacre’s “Eternity in an Hour” will be performed by the BBC Singers, 12 Ensemble, and pianist Christopher Glynn. Eric Whitacre conducts.

Performance Date: Sept. 4, 2024

Harry Christophers conducts the Sixteen and organist Simon Johnson in a program including music by Edward Elgar, Charles Villiers Stanford, John Ireland, William Henry Harris, Henry Balfour Gardiner, and Hubert Parry.

Performance Date: Sept. 7, 2024

Jason Max Ferdinand and the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers perform alongside John Stoddart in a program that includes music by Jacob Collier, Erroll Garner, John Rosamond Johnson, and Woody Guthrie.

Performance Date: Sept. 7, 2024

John Butt conducts Handel’s “Messiah”  with Nardus Williams, Helen Charlston, Benjamin Hulett, and Ashley Riches.

Performance Date: Sept. 7, 2024

Benjamin Britten’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will star Iestyn Davies, Lucy Crowe, Richard Burkhard, Caspar Singh, James Newby, Stephanie Wake-Edwards, Camilla Harris, Nicholas Crawley, Christine Rice, John Savournin, Frazer Scott, James Way, Geoffrey Dolton, Adam Sullivan, and Jerone Marsh-Reid. Douglas Boyd conducts the Garsington Opera.

Performance Date: Sept. 10, 2024

Angel Blue and Sir Stephen Hough lead the Last Night at Proms with Sakari Oramo conducting. The program includes music by Ruperto Chapí, Gabriel Fauré, Charles Ives, Giacomo Puccini, Camille Saint‐Saëns, Carlos Simon, Thomas Arne, and Edward Elgar.

Performance Date: Sept. 14, 2024

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