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Nation
votes for top songs as ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms opens
For
the first time the audience has voted for what they want to hear
in a Proms concert.
I
Feel Pretty, Maria's song from Bernstein's West Side Story,
has narrowly topped the poll by readers of the Radio Times, Proms
Guide and users of the Proms website.
It
is sung by acclaimed soprano Rosemary Joshua at the Nation's Favourite
Prom on Saturday 19 July, which also includes Sir David Attenborough
narrating Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.
Asked
to choose from a selection of arias to be sung by Joshua and tenor
John Mark Ainsley at this special Prom, the public also chose Mozart's
Voi Che Sapete from The Marriage of Figaro for
Joshua to sing, and Donizetti's Una furtiva lagrima from
The Elixir of Love for John Mark Ainsley.
The
top duet was Jetzt, Schätzchen, jetzt sind wir allein
from Beethoven's Fidelio.
The
concert is live on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 on Saturday 19 July and broadcast
on ´óÏó´«Ã½ ONE television the following evening (Sunday 20 July).
The
´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms opens at London's Royal Albert Hall on Friday 18 July.
With
more large-scale opera and choral music than ever before, organisers
are expecting more than 340,000 attendances to the live events and
millions more to tune in to 300 hours of broadcasts on ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV and
radio.
Between
18 July and 13 September there are 73 main concerts, eight Chamber
Proms, four Composer Portraits, the Proms Lecture, more than 25
free pre-Prom events, five ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms in the Park events on the Last
Night – in all four nations for the first time – and
the popular C´óÏó´«Ã½ Prom in the Park on 14 September.
Greek
myths unite the season bringing drama, passion, love and war to
the Proms with more than 35 myth-inspired works.
Epic
operas like Berlioz's The Trojans, Strauss's Elektra and Tippett's
King Priam and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas permeate the season alongside
the most important works by Berlioz and Prokofiev, who have major
anniversaries this year.
There
are 31 major premieres from 29 composers from around the world,
including seven new ´óÏó´«Ã½ commissions.
Highlights
include the European premiere of John Adams' Pulitzer-prize winning
response to 9/11, On the Transmigration of Souls, and a new work
from Joseph Phibbs for the Last Night of the Proms, the youngest
composer to ever write for the Last Night.
Sir
Simon Rattle gives his first Proms performance at the helm of the
Berliner Philharmoniker and Mariss Jansons gives farewell concerts
with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
Other
great partnerships include pop star and jazz singer Bobby McFerrin
conducting the Vienna Philharmonic and two unusual visits from the
Middle East - Daniel Barenboim brings together Palestinian and Israeli
musicians and Zubin Mehta makes a welcome return with the Israel
Philharmonic.
Other
highlights include: a Prom attended by the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh
in their first visit to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms since 1994 (30 July);
a
Late Night world music event (2 August) with the most acclaimed
world music artists around joining London's elite Jazz Jamaica All
Stars;
and
the Last Night of the Proms (13 September) is the most ambitious
ever, with over 70,000 people expected to attend Proms in the Park
events in all four nations for the first time.
Notes
to Editors
´óÏó´«Ã½
Proms 2003 - press pack (30.04.03)
All the
´óÏó´«Ã½'s digital services are now available on ,
the new free-to-view digital terrestrial television service, as well
as on satellite and cable.
Freeview
offers the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s eight television channels, interactive services
from ´óÏó´«Ã½i, as well as 11 ´óÏó´«Ã½ radio networks.
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