It’s a spectacular year for Opera and music for voices, making great use of the huge spaces of the Royal Albert Hall. Opening the season is centenary composer Tippett’s powerful oratorio A Child of Our Time.  Other choral highlights include Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony ‘Choral’ and ‘Missa Solemnis’ and the Requiems by Verdi and Brahms.  Operas range from the Baroque Fairy Queen by Purcell and Julius Caesar by Handel to Wagner’s epic Die Walküre and on a lighter note, Gilbert & Sullivan’s delightful and gently satirical HMS Pinafore.

15/7 PROM 1: Tippett A Child of Our Time

16/7  PROM 2: Gilbert & Sullivan HMS Pinafore

17/7  PROM 3: Purcell The Fairy Queen

18/7  PROM 4: Wagner Die Walküre

24/7  PROM 13: Elgar The Dream of Gerontius

20/8  PROM 49: Beethoven Symphony no. 9 ‘Choral’

23/8  PROM 52: Handel Julius Caesar

28/8  PROM 58: Verdi ‘Requiem’

31/8  PROM 62: Beethoven ‘Missa Solemnis’
04/9  PROM 67: Brahms ‘A German Requiem’