Prom 68: Wagner Night by Von Weber, Wagner, Richard, Franck, De (2019/2019), Director Marc Albrecht, Royal Albert Hall, Londres, Reino Unido

An evening dedicated to the music of Wagner. Dramatic soprano Christine Goerke and tenor Stephen Gould join the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for a concert of sweeping operatic drama, including music from the culmination of the Ring cycle, Götterdämmerung. Composer-themed evenings were a distinctive and popular feature of Henry Wood’s early Proms seasons: if it was Monday, it was Wagner Night. We revive this tradition with a concert whose first half explores the enchanted forest (both beguiling and darkly supernatural) – a key symbol of the German Romantic movement. The second half presents pivotal scenes from Götterdämmerung, the climax of Wagner’s four-opera magnum opus The Ring of the Nibelung – including Siegfried’s Death and Funeral Music and the vocal tour de force of Brünnhilde’s Immolation Scene.