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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 26 - Serpent And Fire - Late Night
Performance Date2 August 2018
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time22:18
Main PerformersAnna Prohaska - vocal
Orchestra or BandIl Giardino Armonico
ConductorsGiovanni Antonini
Set List'Dido and Aeneas – eExcerpts’, Purcell,
'The Fairy Queen – Chaconne: Dance for Chinese Man and Woman’, Purcell,
'Dido, Queen of Carthage – Excerpts’, Graupner
'Julius Caesar in Egypt – Excerpts’, Sartorio,
'The Tempest – Curtain Tune’, Locke,
'Julius Caesar in Egypt – ‘Che Seento? Oh Dio! … Se Pietà di me Non Senti’’, Handel
'Sonata No.15 in D Minor’, Castello,
'Dido – ‘Rè de’ Getuli altero … Il Mio Marito’’, Cavalli
'Mark Antony and Cleopatra – ‘Morte Col Fiero Aspetto'’, Hasse
'Concerto Grosso in C Minor, Op.6, No.8’, Handel
Performance NotesAustrian soprano Anna Prohaska joins Italy’s leading early music ensemble for a programme that takes inspiration from two great queens, Cleopatra and Dido, who proved endlessly fascinating to Baroque composers.

Operatic arias are framed by some of the period’s most vital instrumental works.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2018/51),
Programme (RAHE/1/2018/76),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2018/38),
Handbill (RAHE/6/2018/39)
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/6/2018/39BBC Proms - Late Night Greats at the BBC Proms23 July-6 September 2018
RAHE/1/2018/76BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 26 - Serpent And Fire - Late Night2 August 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/21973Prohaska; Anna (1983-); Austrian coloratura soprano
DS/UK/21974Il Giardino Armonico (1985-)
DS/UK/21975Antonini; Giovanni (1965); Italian conductor
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