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The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

BBC Proms: 2013 Season

Tom Service

Kriss Russman

Serena Cross

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Semyon Bychkov

Robert Dean Smith

Violeta Urmana

BBC Proms: 2013: Proms on Four: Tristan and Isolde

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2013 Season

01/09/2013

Proms on Four: Tristan and Isolde

2013

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The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Wagner's Tristan and Isolde at the Royal Albert Hall.

Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, the opera that marked a defining moment in the evolution of modern music.

As part of the Wagner bicentenary celebrations at the Proms, Tom Service is at the Royal Albert Hall for a concert performance of Wagner's mighty Tristan and Isolde, the opera that marked a defining moment in the evolution of modern music. Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Violeta Urmana and Robert Dean Smith are the lovers for whom the sweet embrace of death beckons. Tom talks to writer and Wagnerite Philip Hensher, while conductor and cast explain the herculean physical and emotional endurance the opera demands of them.

BBC Proms: 2013

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