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26 Jul 2018, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2018 Prom 16: Stravinsky, Debussy & Wagner

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Prom 16: Stravinsky, Debussy & Wagner
19:30 Thu 26 Jul 2018 Prom 16
Mark Elder conducts the ±á²¹±ô±ôé in Stravinsky's colourful symphonic poem The Song of the Nightingale and the fairy-tale ballet The Firebird. Wagner's °Õ²¹²Ô²Ô³óä³Ü²õ±ð°ù overture opens the Prom, which also features Debussy’s sensual cantata La damoiselle élue.
Mark Elder conducts the ±á²¹±ô±ôé in Stravinsky's colourful symphonic poem The Song of the Nightingale and the fairy-tale ballet The Firebird. Wagner's °Õ²¹²Ô²Ô³óä³Ü²õ±ð°ù overture opens the Prom, which also features Debussy’s sensual cantata La damoiselle élue.

Programme

      • °Õ²¹²Ô²Ô³óä³Ü²õ±ð°ù – overture(14 mins)
      • La damoiselle élue(20 mins)
        • interval
        • Song of the Nightingale(20 mins)
        • The Firebird – suite (1945 version)(31 mins)

    Performers

    About This Event

    Sabine Devieilhe and Anna Stéphany are the soloists in centenary composer Claude Debussy’s Wagner-infused, mythical-fantasy cantata La damoiselle élue.

    Wagner’s relationship with Paris soured over his opera °Õ²¹²Ô²Ô³óä³Ü²õ±ð°ù but Stravinsky was practically adopted by the city. Tonight’s second half features two of the latter’s most colourful scores, whose striking resemblances result from the fact that Stravinsky broke off work on The Nightingale (the opera on which tonight’s symphonic poem is based) in order to write his first ballet, The Firebird.

    Please note that Sabine Devieilhe has withdrawn from this Prom owing to illness. We are delighted to announce that Sophie Bevan will take her place in Debussy’s La demoiselle elue.

    Image: Anna Stéphany © Marco Borggreve