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Music: Classical

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: Prom 72

BBC Proms: 2013: Prom 72: Part 1: Prom 72 (part 1): Verdi & Tchaikovsky

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Music: Classical: Opera

Prom 72

Part 1 Part 1: Prom 72 (part 1): Verdi & Tchaikovsky

2013

Prom 72 (part 1): Verdi & Tchaikovsky

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2013, Prom 72, Prom 72 (part 1): Verdi & Tchaikovsky

The Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi and Joseph Calleja in arias by Verdi.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, tenor Joseph Calleja joins the the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi under Xian Zhang to perform operatic arias by Verdi.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Penny Gore

The Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi and Xian Zhang at the BBC Proms perform Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony, and are joined by Joseph Calleja for arias by Verdi


Verdi: La forza del destino - overture
Verdi: Attila - 'O dolore! ed io vivea'
Verdi: I vespri siciliani - 'À toi que j'ai chérie'
Verdi: La traviata - Prelude (Act 1)
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra - 'O inferno! ... Sento avvampar nell'anima'
Verdi: Aida - Triumphal March (Act 2)
Verdi: Luisa Miller - 'O! fede negar potessi ... Quando le sere al placido'
Verdi: Rigoletto - 'La donna è mobile'


7.55pm Interval

8.15pm
Tchaikovsky: Manfred

Joseph Calleja (tenor)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Xian Zhang (conductor)

The Orchestra Sinfonia di Milano Giuseppe Verdi under Chinese-American conductor Xian Zhang complete the season's Tchaikovsky Symphony series with his Byronic Manfred Symphony. And Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja warms up for the Last Night of the Proms by joining the orchestra for overtures and arias by Verdi.

BBC Proms: 2013

BBC Proms: 2013: Prom 72

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.

2013 Season

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

The Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi performs music by Verdi and Tchaikovsky

Penny Gore presents a Prom in which the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi and Xian Zhang are joined by tenor Joseph Calleja for arias by Verdi, before performing a work by Tchaikovsky

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