Name: Viennese Night
Start: 2020-08-31T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-08-31T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Organization

Admin

BBC Proms

Conductor

Bramwell Tovey

Singer

Robert Murray

Tenor

Sophie Bevan

Soprano

BBC Concert Orchestra

Others

Viennese Night

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Auditorium

Private

Public

The Merry Widow

The Chocolate Soldier (arr. Ronald Hanme)

Giuditta (arr. Hans Schneider)

Countess Maritza (arr. Max Schönherr)

The Bat

Paganini (arr. Harry Dexter)

The Opera Ball

Gold and Silver Waltzes, op. 79

The Land of Smiles

The Merry Widow (Ronald Hanmer)

Pizzicato Polka

Die Fledermaus (arr. Stanford Robinson)

Approved

Viennese Night: Die lustige Witwe Lehár (+11 More)

Crack open the champagne and don your evening dress as the BBC Concert Orchestra host a night of Viennese operetta marking 150 years since the birth of Franz Lehár. Johann Strauss II and other contemporaries offer their own musical confections.

Marking 150 years since the birth of Franz Lehár – and recalling the long-running Proms tradition of the ‘Viennese Night’ begun in the 1950s – we step into the gilded ballroom of operetta, evoking the glamour and sophistication of turn-of-the-century Vienna.

Clink your glasses to an evening of champagne-filled romance and melody featuring excerpts from Lehár’s most popular titles such as The Merry Widow, The Land of Smiles and Giuditta, as well as music by fellow creators of the ‘Silver Age’ of Viennese operetta – and excerpts from the most enduring and popular operetta of them all, Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus (‘The Bat’). The ever-stylish BBC Concert Orchestra graces the stage, under its Principal Conductor Bramwell Tovey.

English

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Ensemble

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