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BBC Proms: 2018: Prom 71: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and John Eliot Gardiner perform Berlioz

Prom 71: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and John Eliot Gardiner perform Berlioz

2018

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John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in Berlioz.

Live at the BBC Proms: the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and John Eliot Gardiner perform Berlioz with mezzo Joyce DiDonato and viola player Antoine Tamestit.

Live at BBC Proms: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and John Eliot Gardiner perform Berlioz with mezzo Joyce DiDonato and viola player Antoine Tamestit.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Presented by Donald Macleod.

Berlioz Overture 'Le corsaire'
Berlioz La mort de Cléopâtre
Berlioz The Trojans – Royal Hunt and Storm
Berlioz The Trojans – Dido’s death scene

c.7.50pm 
Interval Proms Plus:  Broadcaster and classicist Bettany Hughes talks to presenter Alex Clark about our knowledge of Troy and introduces readings from contemporary fictional incarnations of the epic stories behind Berlioz’s grand opera Les Troyens which have been written from the women’s point of view.

c.8.10pm
Berlioz Harold in Italy

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo soprano)
Antoine Tamestit (viola)
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

Sir John Eliot Gardiner and his Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique continue their cycle of Berlioz performances, which will reach its climax next season in the 150th-anniversary year of the composer’s death. Some of Berlioz’s most colourful and dramatic works come together here in a programme that draws not only from concert works including the filmic overture Le corsaire and the magnificent symphony with solo viola Harold in Italy, but also from Berlioz’s great opera The Trojans. Star mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato joins the orchestra to sing Dido’s heartbreaking final scene.

BBC Proms: 2018

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