by The BBC today announces its eight-week proms season with 86 concerts in London, Bradford, Belfast, Bristol and Gateshead. A record number of female conductors will be on the podium-15 and the last night will be the first to carry out a purely female series of conductors and soloists: Elim Chan becomes a trumpeter alison Balcalsom and soprano-louise-alder-soprano-alder with trumpeter alison and soprano-louise alder with two World Primeers with the 34-year-old French. Proms debuts.
In addition, Claudia Winkleman will give her Proms debut, who, fully camouflaged, presents a traitor with a mixture of symphonic pop and classical music that research the timeless topics of intrigue, betrayal and betrayal. Suzy Klein, the head of the arts and classic music television at the BBC, promised that the concert would cause the drama of the Highland Castle, in which the extremely popular reality TV show takes place. There will be no gameplay or interaction, she added, but “it will be shaped and curated as a dramatic evening. In the series, so much music are introduced that we wanted to take some of it and say to people. Is announced. Linda Rands, a retired opera singer who fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan -Fan favorite involved?
Successful BBC brands will also give the children’s concerts shape: a Cbeebies -Castle History -Dismissal ball and the return of the Wildlife Jamboree Prom in Gateshead’s Glasshouse Center for Music. The Ulster Orchestra will perform a concert that celebrates the 100th anniversary of the ship forecast with music, which is inspired by the sea, and a new work that is composed and executed by poet Laureate Simon Armitage.
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And although not quite a Proms First (1983s season a nightly prom on Indian classical music), the first prom on the night of the 21st century from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. will last and brought together and carried out by organists Anna Lapwood. “We want it to be very committed, there will be a real width of repertoire,” said Sam Jackson, the controller from BBC Radio 3 and the proms. “At night has something very special in classical music. The intimacy of a certain repertoire is really suitable for this type of immersive listening,” he continued. “But the intention is not only to bring people to sleep for eight hours, although the audience can of course come and react to the music how they want!” However, ceilings and pillows are not allowed in the Royal Albert Hall, the venue confirmed, and the seats are also not being re -configured.
“The only time that Lapwood can practice the RAH organ is usually between midnight and four o’clock in the morning, because it is the only time that someone doesn’t get in or gets out for another appearance. She absolutely knows how to release energy at this time of day!” added Klein.
Among some remarkable anniversaries that were honored this year, there will be a focus on the music of Schostakovich, which died in 1975, and a complete performance – only the second of all time at the Proms – his operas Lady Macbeth des Mtsensk district with the choir of the English National Opera. Proms regular guests Aurora Orchestra will carry out his fifth symphony in detail after a dramatic exploration of his restless origins and importance, and Chineke! Celebrates her 10th birthday with guest conductor Simon Rattle, which leads the black and ethnically diverse orchestra through a program that contains the 10th Symphony of Shostakovich.
Ravel-born before 150 years of features on the opening weekend: his piano concert for the left hand is played by Nicholas McCarthy, which will be the first time that the concert at the Proms is played by a one-handed pianist since it was performed by the man. The Ensemble Intercontemporain (the group he founded), in which his modernist music sets alongside Luciano Berio’s, whose 100th anniversary it is.
Other international orchestras are the Royal Concertgebouw with its chief conductor, the Klaus Mäkelä, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. 25 proms are transferred more than ever on television, said Klein. “We had record numbers last year, over 5 million streams for BBC sounds, and we reached almost 13 million people via TV and Ipaller.”
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In 2024, the Royal Albert Hall was fully at 96% for evening ends, said Jackson. He confirmed that the last night in his now traditional style with Britannia will end under the final pieces. “The last night always creates strong opinions and discussions. There are some people for whom it is a really important tradition, and there are some who say that it is now part of how they want to celebrate in summer,” he said. “Our task is to fulfill such a broad audience as possible, but also to ask how we can develop this festival? What can we do differently? How can we introduce new music? And how can we ensure that we are real width of repertoire of artists? And then there is something for everyone.”
• The proms last from July 18 to September 13th. The general booking will open on May 17th at 9 a.m.
