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Duration: 2 hours, 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Four HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Brett Dean's opera based on Shakespeare's best-known tragedy. Prince Hamlet is called upon to wreak revenge on his uncle Claudius by the ghost of Hamlet's father, the former king. Show more

Contributors

Claudius:
Rodney Gilfry
Polonius:
Kim Begley
Ghost of Old Hamlet/Gravedigger/Player 1:
John Tomlinson
Guildenstern:
Christopher Lowrey
Rosencrantz:
Rupert Enticknap
Marcellus/Player 4:
James Newby
Player 2:
John Findon
Musician:
James Crabb
Composer:
Brett Dean
Librettist:
Matthew Jocelyn
Director:
Neil Armfield
Set Designer:
Ralph Myers
Costume designer:
Alice Babidge
Lighting Director:
Jon Clark
Fight Director:
Nicholas Hall
Executive Producer:
George Bruell

BBC Proms

2017

CBSO play Beethoven’s Fifth

Duration: 1 hour, 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Four HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

The programme includes Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Stravinsky's Violin Concerto with soloist Leila Josefowicz, and the premiere of Gerald Barry's Canada with soloist Allan Clayton. Show more

BBC Proms

2021

First Night of the Proms: Part 2

Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Four HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Katie Derham presents the first Prom of the 2021 season, featuring conductor Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Sibelius’s Second Symphony. Show more

BBC Proms

2021

First Night of the Proms: Part 1

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland HD

Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra kick off a six-week season with Vaughan Williams’s ravishing Serenade to Music and Poulenc’s dazzling Organ Concerto. Show more

BBC Proms

2014

Friday Night at the Proms: In Memoriam WWI

Duration: 1 hour, 40 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Vaughan Williams's Pastoral Symphony, George Butterworth's settings of AE Housman poems, Frederick Septimus Kelly's Elegy for Rupert Brooke and Rudi Stephan's Music for Orchestra. Show more