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BBC Proms 2003

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

nLive from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Mendelssohn's incidental music to
Antigone is placed in its dramatic context, in a version devised by Eugenia Arsenis , based on Sophocles's original text.
Antigone quarrels with King Creon about her dead brother Polynices - with tragic results. Presented by Christopher Cook.
Roderick Williams and Stephan Loges
(baritones), BBC Singers (men's voices), City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Mendelssohn Antigone (sung in English)

Contributors

Unknown:
Royal Albert Hall
Unknown:
Eugenia Arsenis
Presented By:
Christopher Cook.
Unknown:
Roderick Williams
Baritones:
Stephan Loges
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Conductor:
Mendelssohn Antigone
Antigone:
Zoe Wattes
Creon:
Brian Protheroe
Ismene:
Kate Duchene
Haemon:
David Tennant
Teiresias:
John Carlisle
Source: Radio Times

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