Jamie Barton, Joyce DiDonato & Sarah Connolly Headline BBC Proms 2019
By Francisco SalazarElgar’s Enigma’ Variations provide both model and inspiration for a new set of variations by 14 living composers premiered here to mark conductor Martyn Brabbins’s 60th birthday. The concert also includes Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music and soloists Nadine Benjamin and David Ireland in music by Brahms.
Sir Mark Elder conducts Berlioz’s dramatic oratorio “The Childhood of Christ” with soloists Allan Clayton, Dame Sarah Connolly, Neal Davies and Roderick Williams.
Sakari Oramo conducts Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with soloists Anu Komsi, Hilary Summers, Michael Weinius, and Mika Kares. The program also features two world premieres, including a Piano Concerto by Dieter Ammann, with soloist Andreas Haefliger.
Performance Date: August 19, 2019
Walton’s choral masterpiece “Belshazzar’s Feast” gets the Proms treatment with a 300-strong choir conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. The program also include Gerald Finley and music by Charles Koechlin and Edgard Varèse
Performance Date: August 20, 2019
David Portillo and Sofia Fomina lead Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” with a cast that includes Björn Bürger, Alison Rose, Brindley Sherratt, and Caroline Wettergreen. The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment accompanies led by Ryan Wigglesworth.
Elgar’s great choral work, “The Music Makers” takes the stage with soloists Stacey Tappan, Dame Sarah Connolly and Anthony Gregory. Sir Andrew Davis conducts the Royal Philharmonic with a program that also includes Vaughan Williams’s ‘Tallis’ Fantasia” and “Hugh Wood’s Comus.”
Performance Date: August 29, 2019
Richard Egarr conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus in Handel’s “Jephtha.” The work stars Allan Clayton, Jeanine De Bique, Hilary Summers, Tim Mead, Cody Quattlebaum, and Rowan Pierce.
Performance Date: August 30, 2019
Michael Spyres sings the title role in Berlioz’s “Benvenuto Cellini” alongside Sophia Burgos, Matthew Rose, Tareq Nazmi, Krystian Adam, and Ashley Riches. Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.
Performance Date: Sept. 2, 2019
Constantinos Carydis and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen alongside Danae Kontora lead a program of Mozart and Strauss arias as well as Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7.
Performance Date: Sept. 7, 2019
Christine Goerke and tenor Stephen Gould join the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for music from the culmination of the Ring cycle, “Götterdämmerung.” The program also includes music by Weber and Franck.
Performance Date: Sept. 9, 2019
Semyon Bychkov conducts the Czech Philharmonic in Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8. Elena Stikhina also joins the program for music from “Eugene Onegin” and “The Bartered Bride.”
Performance Date: Sept. 10, 2019
Elizabeth Watts joins the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Andrew Manze form music by Bach, Handle, and Beethoven. The program includes arias from “Fidelio” as well as Beethoven’s fifth symphony.
Performance Date: Sept. 13, 2019
Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton joins Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus to lead the musical celebration that brings the festival to a close. The program includes arias by Verdi, Bizet, De Falla, Elgar, Grainger as well a number of classic songs.
Performance Date: Sept. 14, 2019
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