Work: Dido and Aeneas, Z 626: Ah! Belinda

Anna Prohaska reigns supreme in programme of Cleopatra and Dido-inspired Baroque arias in her late night Prom.

While maybe not for the musical puritans, this was the perfect showcase for an exceptional group of musicians to demonstrate their formidable technical and interpretative talents and to respectfully give some new vitality to the magical works of Purcell.

L'Arpeggiata fascinate, amuse, move to tears - in not even two hours.