91Èȱ¬

Live at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms: The Hallé are conducted by Sir Mark Elder in Puccini's Il Tabarro with soloists Natalya Romaniw and Lucio Gallo and, before that, The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Dukas and Respighi's Fountains of Rome

Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall.

Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Respighi: Fountains of Rome

at c. 8pm Interval
Georgia Mann discusses the historical context and cultural background to Puccini's Il Tabarro with Alexandra Wilson, Professor of Music and Cultural History at Oxford Brookes University.

at c. 8.25pm

Puccini: Il Tabarro (Concert performance; sung in Italian)

Lucio Gallo – Michele, a barge-owner (baritone)
Natalya Romaniw – Giorgetta, Michele’s wife (soprano)
Adam Smith – Luigi, a stevedore (tenor)
Annunziata Vestri – La Frugola, Talpa’s wife (mezzo-soprano)
Alasdair Elliott – 'Tinca,' a stevedore (tenor)
Simon Shibambu – 'Talpa,' a stevedore (bass)
Shengzhi Ren – Song Seller (tenor)
Laura Lolita Perešivana (soprano) & Ryan Vaughan Davies (tenor) – Two Lovers

Philharmonia Voices
Hallé Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder (conductor)

Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé bring Puccini’s atmospheric Parisian tragedy Il Tabarro to the Proms – a score that swirls and throbs with the energy of the River Seine.
Natalya Romaniw stars as the unhappily married Giorgetta, whose affair is the catalyst for murder. Two orchestral favourites set the watery scene: Respighi’s Fountains of Rome – by turns glistening in the sunlight and swathed in dawn mist – and the irrepressible musical antics of Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.