| Main Performers | Simon ONeill - Tristan,
Miina-Liisa Varela - Isolde,
Karen Cargill - Brangäne,
Shenyang - Kurwenal,
John Relyea - King Mark,
Neal Cooper - Melot,
Stuart Jackson - Shepherd, Young Sailor |
| Orchestra or Band | London Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Choirs | Glyndebourne Festival Opera |
| Set List | 'Tristan and Isolde', Wagner (concert performance; sung in German) |
| Performance Notes | In 2021, the BBC Proms returns to the Royal Albert Hall for a summer of live music, as it has done every year since 1941. With 52 concerts over 44 days, featuring 30 orchestras and ensembles and more than 2,000 musicians, this ambitious season promises a celebration of live music on a scale not seen since before the pandemic. From the power of a symphony orchestra to the sheer joy of a single performer on the Halls magnificent organ, this summer we look forward to coming together through music. Every Prom will be live on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds.
I am still looking for a work with as dangerous a fascination, with as terrible and sweet an infinity as Tristan, Nietzsche wrote of Wagners great love tragedy. A story about longing and yearning, about an unresolved and unresolvable love, expressed in music that famously denies us resolution until its very final bars, the opera still exerts the same fascination today. Glyndebourne Music Director Robin Ticciati conducts an international cast in a concert performance marking 60 years of the companys appearances at the Proms.
The season was shortened to six, rather than eight, weeks because of the financial risk to the BBC not knowing audience sizes due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. |
| Related Archival Material | Prospectus (RAHE/1/2021/5),
Programme (RAHE/1/2021/),
Digital Photographs |