Prom 39: BBC Symphony Orchestra

Time: 4.00pm - c10.20pm

Venue ROYAL ALBERT HALL

Tickets £10-£45 price code C or Prom for £5

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Our four-year Proms Ring cycle reaches its climax with Götterdämmerung, performed by BBC forces under San Francisco Opera's Donald Runnicles. It features leading Wagnerian singers Christine Brewer, Stig Andersen and Sir John Tomlinson, in a concert staging by Paul Curran.

Wagner

Götterdämmerung (concert performance: sung in German) (265 mins)

There will be two intervals of 60 and 30 minutes

Christine Brewer Brünnhilde (soprano)
Stig Andersen Siegfried (tenor)
Sir John Tomlinson Hagen (bass)
Alan Held Gunther (baritone)
Gweneth-Ann Jeffers Gutrune (soprano)
Gordon Hawkins Alberich (baritone)
Karen Cargill Waltraute (mezzo-soprano)
Andrea Baker First Norn (mezzo-soprano)
Natascha Petrinsky Second Norn (mezzo-soprano)
Miranda Keys Third Norn (soprano)
Katherine Broderick Woglinde (soprano)
Anna Stéphany Wellgunde (mezzo-soprano)
Liore Grodnikaite Flosshilde (mezzo-soprano)

BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles Conductor

Detailed notes about the music will be available one hour before the concert.

ABOUT THE MUSIC

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