Name: Prom 11: Wagner and Tippett
Start: 2016-07-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2016-07-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Organization

BBC Proms

Conductor

Mark Wigglesworth

Singer

Tamara Wilson

soprano

Susan Bickley

Mezzo-soprano

Peter Hoare

Tenor

James Creswell

bass

Soprano

Bass

Bass baritone

Orchestra

BBC Welsh National Orchestra

Others

BBC National Chorus of Wales

Prom 11: Wagner and Tippett

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Prom 11: Wagner and Tippett: Die Walküre Wagner,Richard (+1 More)

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The Valkyrie

A Child of our Time

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As Europe slipped towards Fascism, Michael Tippett felt solidarity with the downtrodden. Then, in 1938,a young Polish Jew, whose parents had been deported by the Nazis, shot a German diplomat in Paris. Tippett had the central figure for his ‘oratorio of contemplation’, A Child of Our Time – inspired by Bach’s Passions, Handel’s Messiah and American spirituals.

Mark Wigglesworth also explores the theme of parent–child relationships in the final scene of Wagner’s opera Die Walküre, culminating in Wotan’s poignant farewell to his daughter.

Please note that Pamela Helen Stephen, the advertised mezzo-soprano, has had to withdraw from tonight’s performance. The BBC Proms is very grateful to Susan Bickley for taking her place.

English

Prom 11: Wagner and Tippett by Wagner, Richard, Tippett, From (2016/2016), Conductor Mark Wigglesworth, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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