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Berlioz’s ‘Symphonie fantastique’

Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, Londres, Greater London, SW7 2AP, Royaume-uni
Dates/horaires selon le fuseau horaire de London
samedi 08 août 202619:30
Festival: BBC Proms
Artistes
National Youth Orchestra of Great BritainNational Youth Orchestra
Thomas AdèsDirection

Does the Devil really have all the best tunes? When it comes to classical music, he just might. Thomas Adès conducts the National Youth Orchestra – over 150 of Britain’s most talented teenagers – in a thrilling musical journey to Hell and back. Follow Faust into the irresistible, whirling dance of Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz No. 1; contemplate Purgatory, ‘a sort of pre-dawn, before the sun of Paradise’, in Purgatorio – the central panel of Adès’s own Grammy Award- winning, Dante-inspired ballet; and surrender to the vast soundscapes and phantasmagoria of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, culminating in a horrifying ‘Witches’ Sabbath’.

Seats from £19.34 to £71.36 (including booking fee*)

Recorded for broadcast on BBC TV and BBC iPlayer

BBC Proms
Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique: The demon symphony
Berlioz 150 : l'incroyable Fantastique
The story of Symphonie Fantastique