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Venue	Royal Albert Hall
	Also: Elgar Room
Town	Inner London
County	Greater London
From	12th August 2012
To	12th August 2012
When	20:00
Prices	From £7.50. To £36.00.
Royal Albert Hall (V221)
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Date of change: 3 Jul 12 - T01760892159

Prom 41 - Schoenberg - Gurrelieder

Work:: Prom 41 (S5972)

Part of the BBC Proms.

Production:: Schoenberg - Gurrelieder (T01760892159)

Following Beethoven's ?Choral' Symphony on the opening night of the London Olympics (Prom 18), the closing night sees another choral blockbuster. Schoenberg's medieval love-tragedy is an early masterpiece in which his late-Romantic voluptuousness attains a radiant C major sunrise apotheosis. Augmenting substantial BBC forces, Jiri Belohlavek welcomes two guest choirs. An impressive international solo line-up is headed by New Zealand tenor Simon O'Neill as Waldemar, the cursed king. German soprano Angela Denoke makes her Proms debut as Tove and Swedish mezzo-soprano Katarina Karneus returns as the voice of the Wood-Dove. There will be no interval. Finish time approx. 21:50

Performer	Angela Denoke (soprano)
Performer	Simon O'Neill (tenor / Waldemar)
Performer	Katarina Karneus (mezzo soprano / Wood-Dove)
Performer	Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (tenor / Klaus the Fool)
Performer	Neal Davies (bass-baritone / Peasant)
Performer	Wolfgang Schone (speaker)
Company	BBC Singers
Company	BBC Symphony Chorus
Company	Crouch End Festival Chorus
Company	New London Chamber Choir
Company	BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor	Jiri Belohlavek

Listing:: L0809732352

Schoenberg - Gurrelieder

Following Beethoven's ?Choral' Symphony on the opening night of the London Olympics (Prom 18), the closing night sees another choral blockbuster. Schoenberg's medieval love-tragedy is an early masterpiece in which his late-Romantic voluptuousness attains a radiant C major sunrise apotheosis. Augmenting substantial BBC forces, Jiri Belohlavek welcomes two guest choirs. An impressive international solo line-up is headed by New Zealand tenor Simon O'Neill as Waldemar, the cursed king. German soprano Angela Denoke makes her Proms debut as Tove and Swedish mezzo-soprano Katarina Karneus returns as the voice of the Wood-Dove. There will be no interval. Finish time approx. 21:50

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