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Live at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: Iván Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 and Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle.

Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major

c8.10pm
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The writer Nigel Simeone joins Andrew to introduce Duke Bluebeard's Castle, which is Bartók's only opera.

c.8.30pm
Béla Bartók: Duke Bluebeard’s Castle

Dorottya Láng (soprano) ... Judith
Krisztián Cser (bass) ... Duke Bluebeard
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer (conductor)

From light into darkness: Beethoven’s ebullient Symphony No. 7 – ‘glorious wine for the human spirit’ – gives way to the shadows and horrors of Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle. Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra bring Hungary’s greatest opera to the Royal Albert Hall. The legend of Bluebeard and his young wife Judith – whose persistent curiosity forces the Duke to reveal the secrets hidden behind the locked doors of his castle – comes to idiomatic life in the hands of a Hungarian cast.