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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2025 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season - Prom 39: Shostakovich’s Fifth by Heart
Performance Date17 August 2025
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time11:00
Main PerformersMax Revell - actor/dancer
Polly Frame - actor
Craig Stein - actor
Sarah Twomey - actor
Orchestra or BandAurora Orchestra
ConductorsNicholas Collon
Set List'A musical and dramatic exploration of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 '

INTERVAL

'Symphony No. 5 in in D minor ', Shostakovich, (performed from memory)
Performance NotesExplore a symphony from the inside out. Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra reflect this year’s Shostakovich anniversary with a Prom that takes the audience under the hood of a 20th-century masterpiece and into the mind of the man who made it. Actors join the Aurora’s players to bring to life a symphony born in the shadow of Stalin’s regime – music on the edge of life and death by a composer treading a dangerous line between political obedience and artistic defiance.

This production was developed in collaboration Aurora Orchestra, Frantic Assembly and BBC Proms.

Broadcast on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer

Jane Mitchell Co-Director and scriptwriter
James Bonas Co-Director
Scott Graham for Frantic Assembly Co-Director
Sean Hollands for Frantic Assembly Associate to Scott Graham
Zakk Hein video design
David Bishop lighting designer


Audio-described by Timna Fibert
British Sign Language-interpreted
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2025/30),
Programme (RAHE/1/2025/
Ticket Prices£9 - £115 (Promming tickets £8)
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work13506BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2025 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season72
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/24480Revell; Max (fl. 2020s); British dancer
DS/UK/24481Frame; Polly (1976 -); Scottish actor
DS/UK/24483Stein; Craig (fl. 2020s); British actor
DS/UK/24484Twomey; Sarah (fl. 2020s); British actor
DS/UK/1058Aurora Orchestra; 2005-; British chamber orchestra
DS/UK/1059Collon; Nicholas (fl 2012); British conductor
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