蜜芽传媒

Sat 2 Aug 2014

• 14:00

  Proms Plus Sing

  Royal College of Music

  Join Anna Flannagan and the ladies of the 蜜芽传媒 Singers to sing extracts from Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate and pick up some musical theatre performance tips along the way. Open to ages 7-plus.

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• 15:00

  Proms Saturday Matinee 1: Armonia Atenea 鈥撀燝reek Myths

  Cadogan Hall

  The first Greek orchestra ever to appear at the Proms, Armonia Atenea, and Artistic Director George Petrou, presents a programme with an appropriately classical flavour. Greek myths form the thread through a Baroque labyrinth of arias and overtures from French, German and Italian operas, including Gluck鈥檚 Orph茅e, Handel鈥檚 Arianna in Creta and Lully鈥檚 Phaeton.

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  The first Greek orchestra ever to appear at the Proms, Armonia Atenea, and Artistic Director George Petrou, presents a programme with an appropriately classical flavour. Greek myths form the thread through a Baroque labyrinth of arias and overtures from French, German and Italian operas, including Gluck鈥檚 Orph茅e, Handel鈥檚 Arianna in Creta and Lully鈥檚 Phaeton.

  Programme

  • • • George Frideric Handel
      • Alessandro - Overture(6 mins)
    • • Johann Adolf Hasse
      • Artemisia(5 mins)鈥� overture
    • • Giovanni Paisiello
      • Olimpiade(5 mins)鈥� 'E mi lasci cos矛?' ... 'Ne' giorni tuoi felici'
    • • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully
      • Phaeton(10 mins)鈥� suite
    • • Antonio Vivaldi
      • Giustino(9 mins)鈥� 'Vedr貌 con mio diletto'
    • • Christoph Willibald Gluck
      • Orfeo ed Euridice(10 mins)鈥� Dance of the Blessed Spirits; Dance of the Furies
      • Iphig茅nie en Aulide(4 mins)鈥� 'Ma fille, Jupiter'
    • • Giovanni Paisiello
      • Olimpiade(7 mins)鈥� 'Scogli, oh Dio! le sue catene'

  Performers

  • Myrsini Margariti

    soprano
    soprano
  • Irini Karaianni

    mezzo-soprano
    mezzo-soprano
  • Armonia Atenea
  • George Petrou

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • George Frideric Handel
  • Johann Adolf Hasse
  • Giovanni Paisiello
  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully
  • Antonio Vivaldi
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

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• 17:45

  Proms Plus Literary

  Royal College of Music

  Actress Alexandra Gilbreath and actress and director Janet Suzman discuss their approach to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and how 21st-century audiences react to its sexual politics.

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• 19:30

  Prom 21: The John Wilson Orchestra 鈥� Kiss Me, Kate

  Royal Albert Hall

  Following the enormous success of their staged performance of My Fair Lady in 2012, John Wilson and his orchestra return to perform Kiss Me, Kate 鈥� Cole Porter鈥檚 Tony Award- reworking of Shakespeare鈥檚 The Taming of the Shrew.

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  Following the enormous success of their staged performance of My Fair Lady in 2012, John Wilson and his orchestra return to perform Kiss Me, Kate 鈥� Cole Porter鈥檚 Tony Award- reworking of Shakespeare鈥檚 The Taming of the Shrew.

  Programme

  • • • Cole Porter
      • Kiss Me Kate(165 mins)

  Performers

  • Ben Davis

    singer (Fred Graham / Petruchio)
    singer (Fred Graham / Petruchio)
  • Alexandra Silber

    singer (Lilli Vanessi / Katherine)
    singer (Lilli Vanessi / Katherine)
  • Tony Yazbeck

    singer (Bill Calhoun / Lucentio)
    singer (Bill Calhoun / Lucentio)
  • Louise Dearman

    singer (Lois Lane / Bianca)
    singer (Lois Lane / Bianca)
  • John Wilson Orchestra
  • John Wilson

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Cole Porter

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• 22:30

  Proms Plus Late

  Royal Albert Hall

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