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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 16 - Stravinsky, Debussy and Wagner
Performance Date26 July 2018
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersSophie Bevan,
Anna Stephany - vocals
Orchestra or BandHallé
ChoirsHallé Choir,
Hallé Youth Choir
ConductorsSir Mark Elder
Set List'Overture' from Tannhäuser, Wagner,
'La Damoiselle élue', Debussy
INTERVAL
'Song of the Nightingale', Stravinsky,
'The Firebird', Stravinsky - 1945 version
Performance NotesSabine Devieilhe and Anna Stéphany are the soloists in centenary composer Claude Debussy’s Wagner-infused, mythical-fantasy cantata La damoiselle élue.

Wagner’s relationship with Paris soured over his opera Tannhäuser but Stravinsky was practically adopted by the city.

Tonight’s second half features two of the latter’s most colourful scores, whose striking resemblances result from the fact that Stravinsky broke off work on The Nightingale (the opera on which tonight’s symphonic poem is based) in order to write his first ballet, The Firebird.

Sabine Devieilhe withdrew from the concert owing to illness an was replaced by Sophie Bevan.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2018/51),
Programme (RAHE/1/2018/67),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2018/38),
Digital Photographs,
Posters (RAHE/2/2018/26, 41)
Ticket Prices£7.50-£100, £6 standing arena and gallery
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2018/67BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 16 - Stravinsky, Debussy and Wagner26 July 2018
RAHE/1/2018/51BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Season - Proms Guide13 July-8 September 2018
RAHE/6/2018/38BBC Proms Mini-Guide13 July-8 September 2018
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work11341BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty Fourth Season75
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1000Halle; 1858-; English symphony orchestra
DS/UK/1013Halle; Halle Choir; c1858-; English choir
DS/UK/1014Halle; Halle Youth Choir; c1858-; English youth choir
DS/UK/919Elder; Sir; Mark Philip (1947-); CBE; British conductor
DS/UK/5634Stéphany; Anna (1977-); English mezzo-soprano
DS/UK/1002Bevan; Sophie (1983); MBE; British soprano singer
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