BBC Proms 2019 Prom 68 Wagner Night
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This event took place on Monday 9 September 2019.
- Monday 9 September 2019
- Royal Albert Hall
BBC Proms 2019 Prom 68 Wagner Night
Mon 9 Sept 2019
Need to know
Repertoire
- Weber Der Freischütz: Overture
- Wagner Forest Murmurs From Siegfried
- Wagner Dawn and Duet; Siegfried's Rhine Journey and Siegfried's Death and Funeral March; Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene From Götterdämmerung
- Franck Le Chasseur Maudit
Features
- Marc Albrecht Conductor
- Christine Goerke Soprano
- Stephen Gould Tenor
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Location
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore,
South Kensington,
London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
Composer-themed evenings were a distinctive and popular feature of Henry Wood’s early Proms seasons: if it was Monday, it was Wagner Night. We revive this tradition with a concert whose first half explores the enchanted forest (both beguiling and darkly supernatural) – a key symbol of the German Romantic movement. The second half presents pivotal scenes from Götterdämmerung, the climax of Wagner’s four-opera magnum opus The Ring of the Nibelung – including Siegfried’s Death and Funeral Music and the vocal tour de force of Brünnhilde’s Immolation Scene.
Image: Christine Goerke © Arielle Doneson