Performances of Nicky Spence at BBC Proms
Thu 6 Aug 2026
- 19:00Royal Albert Hall
Sir Mark Elder conducts the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir and star soloists in Weber’s final opera, featuring a new narration that brings fresh life and wit to this chivalric fantasy of shipwrecks and magic horns
Sir Mark Elder conducts the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir and star soloists in Weber’s final opera, featuring a new narration that brings fresh life and wit to this chivalric fantasy of shipwrecks and magic horns
Programme
- Oberon(120 mins)(semi-staged; sung in English, with English surtitles)
Performers
- Nicky SpenceOberon
- Jennifer DavisReiza
- John FindonSir Huon of Bordeaux
- Yannick DebusSherasmin
- Rachael WilsonFatima
- J’Nai BridgesPuck
- Charlotte BowdenMermaid
- Jessica CaleMermaid
- Tamsin Greignarrator
- Emma Dohertystage director
- Sir Mark Elderconductor
Composers
Sat 12 Sept 2026
- 19:15Royal Albert Hall
Classical music’s greatest international party draws the 2026 Proms to a close. Superstar pianist Yuja Wang is joined by Scottish tenor Nicky Spence and massed BBC forces, all marshalled by Sakari Oramo
Classical music’s greatest international party draws the 2026 Proms to a close. Superstar pianist Yuja Wang is joined by Scottish tenor Nicky Spence and massed BBC forces, all marshalled by Sakari Oramo
Programme
- Candide – overture(5 mins)
- Keltic Suite – Lament(5 mins)ii. ‘Lament’
- Rusalka – ‘Vidino divná, přesladká’ (Prince’s Aria)(7 mins)
- Má vlast – Vltava(12 mins)
- DithyrambBBC commission: world premiere
- Piano Concerto(26 mins)
- interval
- To Dolly, With Love(7 mins)9 to 5 – Jolene – I Will Always Love You arr. Fiona Brice
- 'Jupiter' from The Planets(8 mins)
- Suite for Piano and Orchestra (Jazz Suite)(15 mins)
- Scotch SnapBBC commission: world premiere arr. Stuart Calvert
- Iris of Life(3 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- Guys and Dolls – ‘Sit Down, You’re Rockin' the Boat’(5 mins)arr. Mark Cumberland
- Fantasia on British Sea-Songs(13 mins)arr. Wood
- Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent)(3 mins)
- Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major (‘Land of Hope and Glory’)(8 mins)
- Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)(2 mins)
- The National Anthem (arr. Britten)(2 mins)
- Auld Lang Syne(2 mins)(arr. P. Campbell)
Performers
- Nicky Spencetenor
- Yuja Wangpiano
- Sakari Oramoconductor
