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BBC Proms - 18 July-13 Sept 2008 - The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival

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5.15pm - 6.00pm: Proms Intro Christopher Cook talks to Director of the Royal Ballet, Monica Mason, about the company, its history, conductors and dancers.

Prom 46: London Symphony Orchestra

  • Date Wednesday 20 August 2008
  • Time 7.00pm - c10.30pm
  • Venue Royal Albert Hall
  • Tickets £7-£44 price band B or Prom for £5
  • Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.

Valery Gergiev (credit: Marco Borggreve Decca)

Valery Gergiev comes to the Proms with music from his native Russia - music with more than a whiff of the greasepaint that brings out the best in this charismatic maestro.

The Sleeping Beauty is one of Tchaikovsky's most delicate and melodically rich ballet scores - a perennial favourite that tells the story of a handsome prince awakening a beautiful princess, Aurora, thereby breaking the spell of the wicked fairy Carabosse.

  • Tchaikovsky The Sleeping Beauty (c177 mins)

There will be one interval

London Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev conductor

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