June 30, 2015 • Cultural, Past Events • Views: 1587

WHEN:

6 September 2015, 7:30 PM

WHERE:

Royal Albert  Hall, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP

TICKETS:

Free, booking required, please, follow the link

Tickets to this Free Prom will be available from 9am on Friday 3 July
Young talented soprano Olena Tokar, Kirowsk, Ukraine is performing Mimi at this year’s Verbier Festival’s production of La boheme or Carmina Burana at the BBC Prom in Royal Albert Hall.

Carmina burana is as musically inventive as it is irreverent – a choral cantata based on a medieval text charting the joys, fickleness and excesses of human life.

Programme:

Saint-Saëns
Danse macabre 8′

Guy Barker
The Lanterne of Light c30′
BBC commission: world premiere

interval

Orff
Carmina burana 65′

Charles Mutter violin
Alison Balsom trumpet
Olena Tokar soprano
Thomas Walker tenor
Benjamin Appl baritone

Southend Boys’ Choir
Southend Girls’ Choir
BBC Symphony Chorus
London Philharmonic Choir
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart conductor

Source of information

Read about Olena

Tags: clasical music