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BBC Proms: 2013 Season: Prom 19

BBC Proms: 2013: Prom 19: Part 1: Prom 19 (part 1): Wagner - Tristan und Isolde

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Prom 19 (part 1): Wagner - Tristan und Isolde

Part 1 Part 1: Prom 19 (part 1): Wagner - Tristan und Isolde

2013

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Act 1 of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde with the BBC SO and Semyon Bychkov live at the Proms.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, Semyon Bychkov conducts Act 1 of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, with leading soloists and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

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Wagner's Tristan und Isolde performed by star soloists with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Semyon Bychkov live at the BBC Proms.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley


Wagner: Tristan and Isolde (concert performance, sung in German)

Act 1

6.25pm Interval

7.00pm Act 2

8.20pm Interval8.55pm Act 3

Tristan .... Robert Dean Smith (tenor)
King Mark.... Kwangchul Youn (bass)
Isolde.... Violetta Urmana (soprano)
Kurwenal.... Boaz Daniel (baritone)
Melot.... David Wilson-Johnson (tenor)
Brangane.... Mihoko Fujimura (soprano)
Shepherd/Young Sailor.... Andrew Staples (tenor)
Steersman.... Edward Price (baritone)


BBC Singers (Men)
BBC Symphony Chorus (Men)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

The Wagner bicentenary celebration continues with the composer's boldest fusion of legend and harmonic innovation, Tristan and Isolde, which forced him to break off work on his Ring cycle - near this very juncture in the Proms Ring, during the composition of Siegfried and before the final instalment, Götterdämmerung.

Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and a cast led by Violeta Urmana and Robert Dean Smith in a drama where love and death become one.

BBC Proms: 2013

BBC Proms: 2013: Prom 19

Prom 19

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

All broadcasts from the 119th season of the BBC Proms.

Wagner's boldest fusion of legend and harmonic innovation, performed by the BBC SO.

Wagner's boldest fusion of legend and harmonic innovation performed by star soloists with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Semyon Bychkov. Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall.

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