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BBC Proms 2026 reveals American classical line-up with tributes to Paul Simon and Marvin Gaye

Los Angeles Philharmonic will make a highly anticipated return to the Proms after nearly 25 years as well as the Met Orchestra’s debut

The Independent UK

BBC Proms to celebrate American classical music

The line-up includes music from leading orchestras, conductors and soloists from the UK and around the world.

Evening Standard

‘It’s a symbol of hope and defiance for Ume Sámi and its speakers’: singer Katarina Barruk on her Proms debut

Joiking comes to the Proms this weekend in a collaboration between Katarina Barruk and violinist Pekka Kuusisto. The two tell us how they have enriched each other’s musical worlds

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The week in classical: Prom 37: Britten’s War Requiem; The Turn of the Screw – review

Britten’s explosive work is a rallying cry at the Proms, while a twilit production of his chamber opera feels properly ghostly

The Guardian - UK

Prom 37: Britten’s War Requiem review – a tragically relevant act of remembrance

Antonio Pappano seized every opportunity to build dramatic tension, while the London Symphony Orchestra played with fire and focus

The Guardian - UK

Prom 25: BBC Philharmonic/Storgårds review – the best new work of the season?

The centrepiece of a programme of Schumann, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky was Hans Abrahamsen’s seamlessly inventive Horn Concerto, played immaculately by Stefan Dohr

The Guardian - UK

Sam Smith at the Proms review: Singer promises to stay clothed in rich, soulful and entirely appropriate performance

Recent live shows have seen Smith dance in a corset and bare their bottom, leading traditionalists to worry about their Proms performance. But the singer delivers a beautiful, harmless night of music

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Fence me in: the bold plan to save native species on Wilsons Promontory

A 10km partially electrified fence could be installed across the national park to slow the steady southward march of invasive species

The Guardian - AU

Prom 64: Les Troyens review – trouble-hit concert-staging rises to the occasion magnificently

Dinis Sousa, replacing John Eliot Gardiner, brought excitement and emotional intensity to Berlioz’s epic opera, aided by a consistently impressive cast

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Proms 38 & 39; Prom 40; Trouble in Tahiti – review

Three Hungarian-inspired proms combine sizzling energy, Bartók and dadaist absurdity, while an intimate staging ramps up the angst in a bite-size Bernstein

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Itch; Semele; Prom 16: Hallé/Elder – review

Jonathan Dove transforms Simon Mayo’s ripping yarn into an exhilarating instant classic; it’s Thebes by way of Port Talbot in Adele Thomas’s Glyndebourne debut; and all hail the Hallé

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: BBC Proms week one; Ariadne auf Naxos – review

Record viewing and listening figures, plus keyboard wizardry from Paul Lewis, Benjamin Grosvenor and Stephen Hough, kicked off another year at the Proms. Elsewhere, Strauss’s Cretan romcom laid bare

The Guardian - UK

Prom 4 at the Royal Albert Hall review: revitalised Vivaldi with a provocative take on Four Seasons

This took well-worn music and made it fresh – no mean achievement

Evening Standard

Prom 1: BBCSO/Stasevska review – energy, ovations and defiance open season

A programme ranging from Sibelius, Grieg and Britten to a world premiere by Ukrainian Bohdana Frolyak opened the Proms with conductor Dalia Stasevska engaged and outgoing.

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What's happening at Mumbles as major construction work begins on the seafront

There are diggers on the beach, huge holes being dug, and parts of the prom are being closed off

ABC News

South Gippsland removed from offshore wind zone after community concerns

South Gippsland residents have welcomed a new zone earmarked for offshore wind energy production in the Bass Strait, which now excludes waters west of Wilsons Promontory.

Evening Standard

BBC Proms 2022: Prom 44 Ethel Smyth review - a triumphant return for her long-forgotten Mass

There’s been a recent resurgence of interest in the early 20th century composer and this was a triumphant return for her Mass

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Prom 14: CBSO/ Yamada; Prom 16: BBCNOW/ Manze; L’incoronazione di Poppea

Why do some Proms sound better in the Albert Hall and others at home on the radio? Elsewhere, Grimeborn gets off to a smouldering start

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The week in classical: Proms 2 & 5; Attila; Thomas Kelly – review

Star violist Lawrence Power and John Wilson’s orchestra dazzle at the Proms. Elsewhere, fireworks on the stage and podium in early Verdi, and a young pianist astonishes

Daily Record

'This is why we can't have nice things' Scots business forced to close early to help clean up beach

Civerino's Prom Slice is located on Portobello Beach in the capital.

Wales Online

The Welsh seaside resort that has been promised so much and is still waiting for change

'It could be amazing... It just needs a bit more love'

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