Name: BBC Proms: Fantastique
Start: 2019-09-12T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-09-12T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

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BBC Proms

Consultant Designer

Will Reynolds

Conductor

Nicholas Collon

Stage director

Jane Mitchell

James Bonas

Set designer

Kate Wicks

Actor

Mathew Baynton

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Aurora Orchestra

BBC Proms: Fantastique

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Symphonie fantastique Op. 14 Berlioz

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Symphonie fantastique Op. 14

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Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon talks about how we're bringing Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique (performed from memory) to life in our Orchestral Theatre production at the BBC Proms.

BBC Proms: Fantastique: Symphonie fantastique Op. 14 Berlioz

Waltz through a glittering ball, enter a feverish dream, march to your own execution, and spin into dark delirium at a witches’ sabbath. Take on the opium-infused visions of a tortured artist haunted by unrequited passion in this Orchestral Theatre production of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique.

Inspired by the composer’s own romantic infatuation with a young actress, this epoch-making work unfolds as a cinematic fantasy full of wild imagination and demonic madness – by turns gorgeous and grotesque.

Aurora Orchestra and actor Mathew Baynton (Horrible Histories, Ghosts) invite you to a creative orchestral journey through Berlioz’s hallucinatory tale of ecstasy and despair, passion and obsession. This unique concert interweaves a memorised performance of the Symphonie fantastique with theatrical design, lighting, movement and Berlioz’s own words about his music, alongside a presentation of the work’s musical ideas with live excerpts.

Orchestral Theatre staging concept by Aurora Orchestra.

English

BBC Proms: Fantastique by Berlioz, From (2019/2019), Directed by Jane Mitchell, James Bonas,, Conductor Nicholas Collon, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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