Category: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms
Date: 11.07.2005
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First Night of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms:
Friday 15 July
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Thirty-seven of the world's top orchestras, three opera
companies, a host of leading ensembles, and hundreds of the world's
greatest soloists and conductors pack 74 concerts into just 58 days
at London's Royal Albert Hall from Friday, when the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms
opens.
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For the first time, the First Night is relayed live
from the Royal Albert Hall to the big screen in Trafalgar Square. The
free event in Trafalgar Square also includes live entertainment in the
afternoon.
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The live broadcast of the concert from the Royal Albert
Hall is also being shown on the big screens in Manchester, Birmingham,
Liverpool and Hull where audiences are expected to gather for party-like
events to mark the opening of the world's 'greatest music festival'.
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Mendelssohn's ever-popular Violin Concerto, performed
by glamorous young violinist Janine Jansen, and Tippett's powerful war-time
oratorio A Child of Our Time are among the highlights of the First Night
concert.
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Top artists including singers Sir Willard White
and Ian Bostridge join leading British conductor Sir
Roger Norrington and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra and
Chorus.
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The Prommers in the arena and gallery will stand for
around 111 hours of music-making during the Proms season, paying just
£4 to hear such great names as Plácido Domingo, Ravi
Shankar and Anne Sofie von Otter.
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More than a quarter of a million seats will be sold,
and there will be more than 300 hours of Proms broadcasts on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ ONE,
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ TWO, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ FOUR and every concert on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3.
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There are also eight Proms Chamber Music concerts at
Cadogan Hall, four Composer Portraits, 24 pre-Prom talks and, for the
first time, four Proms films.
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The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms comes to end on Saturday 10 September
when the world-famous Last Night of the Proms celebrations will attract
more than 100,000 people into the Royal Albert Hall, Hyde Park and four
other venues around the country.
