Name: Prom 41: Schoenberg – Gurrelieder
Start: 2012-08-12T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2012-08-12T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

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BBC Proms

Others

BBC Symphony Chorus

Crouch End Festival Chorus

New London Chamber Choir

Conductor

Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Soprano

Angela Denoke

Tove

Tenor

Simon O'Neill

Waldemar

Mezzo-soprano

Katarina Karnéus

Waldtaube

Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts

Klaus-Narr

Bass-baritone

Neal Davies

Peasant

Spoken

Wolfgang Schöne

Narrator

Orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC Singers

Prom 41: Schoenberg – Gurrelieder

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Public

Gurre-Lieder

Paul Koneri

Approved

About this event
Following Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony on the opening night of the London Olympics (Prom 18), the closing night sees another choral blockbuster. Schoenberg’s medieval love-tragedy is an early masterpiece in which his late-Romantic voluptuousness attains a radiant C major sunrise apotheosis.

Augmenting substantial BBC forces, Jukka-Pekka Saraste welcomes two guest choirs. An impressive international solo line-up is headed by New Zealand tenor Simon O’Neill as Waldemar, the cursed king. German soprano Angela Denoke makes her Proms debut as Tove and Swedish mezzo-soprano Katarina Karnéus returns as the voice of the Wood-Dove.

There will be no interval

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble