A banner day at the PROMS – the First Chamber Music Concert and then DIE WALKUERE (the hottest ticket in London) with Domingo, Meier and Terfel!!!! Fans around the world are waiting….then throw in a rebroadcast of the interview with Karita from earlier this year…. what a treat this will be!  Oh and this is Domingo’s DEBUT at the PROMS !!!!

ENJOY!!

8 am  EDT BBC Proms Chamber Music 2005  Concert 1
Live from Cadogan Hall in London, a tribute to Peter Warlock – one of England’s greatest song writers, who died 75 years ago. Presented by Stephanie Hughes.

Fauré: L’Horizon chimérique
Barber: Dover Beach
Warlock: Songs, including Hanacker Mill, The Night and My Own Country

Thomas Allen (baritone); Imogen Cooper (piano); Royal String Quartet

9 am EDT   BBC Proms 2005 Rebroadcast of the Live performance from the Royal Albert Hall, London The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus launch the 111th season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts. Sir Roger Norrington conducts an all-star line-up in Tippett’s powerful oratorio marking the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Janine Jansen, performs the ever-popular Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, and this year’s Proms theme of the Sea is launched with Berlioz’s thrilling overture.Presented by Stephanie Hughes.

Janine Jansen (violin); Indra Thomas (soprano); Christine Rice (mezzo soprano); Ian Bostridge (tenor); Sir Willard White (bass)

Berlioz: Overture, The Corsair
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in Em
Elgar: Overture, Cockaigne

BBC Symphony Chorus; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Sir Roger Norrington (conductor)

11:00    Stage and Screen  A short series of this season’s most-requested editions of Stage and Screen. Kicking off with another chance to hear the great Finnish soprano Karita Mattila in conversation with Edward Seckerson at the Royal Opera House. Including music from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Strauss’s Elektra, Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades and Verdi’s Don Carlos.

12 noon BBC Proms 2005 Presented by Christopher Cook live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, the first instalment of the Proms Ring cycle. Antonio Pappano conducts a performance of the new Covent Garden production of Wagner’s Die Walküre.

Wagner
Die Walküre (concert performance; sung in German) (3 hrs 52
mins)
Act I (62 mins)
interval (25 mins)
Act II (91 mins)
interval
(55 mins)
Act III (67 mins)
Total time 5 hrs 15 mins

Cast includes:
Siegmund Placido Domingo (tenor)
Sieglinde Waltraud
Meier (soprano)
Hunding Eric Halfvarson (bass)
Wotan Bryn Terfel
(baritone)
Brünnhilde Lisa Gasteen (soprano)
Fricka Rosalind Plowright
(mezzo-soprano)
Gerhilde Geraldine McGreevy
Ortlinde Elaine
McKrill
Waltraute Claire Powell
Schwertleite Rebecca de Pont
Davies
Helmwige Iréne Theorin
Siegrune Sarah Castle
Grimgerde Clare
Shearer
Rossweisse Elizabeth Sikora

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Antonio Pappano conductor

1:05  Twenty Minutes  Return to Berlin  Professor George Brandt was born in Berlin, and returned to the city as a guest of its mayor under a scheme that provides a gesture of reconciliation to exiles around the world.  The trip is a moment of emotional and intellectual reckoning, as well as an opportunity to lay the past to rest. Professor Brandt remembers his Berlin childhood which ended with his abrupt departure as a young teenager in 1933, and he reflects on the experience of the Berliner in exile.

1:35  BBC Proms 2005  Part 2

3:05  A programme about Nietsche’s time in Basel.

4:00 BBC Proms 2005  Part 3