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BBC Proms 2023: this year’s schedule and how to get tickets

Tickets for the BBC Proms 2023 will go on sale this week

Evening Standard

Female conductors to open and close BBC Proms for first time

Dalia Stasevska and Marin Alsop among 10 women conducting in 2023 season as festival moves towards gender equality

The Guardian - UK

BBC Singers will play an ‘important role’ in Proms, says event director

The corporation recently announced it has suspended the proposed closure of the choir.

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‘It’s OK to take risks in concerts because there it’s safe to do so’: Conductor Daniel Harding on his double life as an airline pilot

He’s been on the podium with the world’s leading orchestras but, he says, his new parallel career flying for Air France has taught him things he never learned in 30 years of music making

The Guardian - UK

The Proms cancel remaining events ‘as mark of respect’ to the Queen

This includes the last night of the Proms on Saturday

Evening Standard

BBC cancels Last Night of the Proms out of ‘respect’ for the Queen

Summer season of classical music concerts was due to conclude this weekend

The Independent UK

Proms & ENO: Glass Handel review – arias meet beatboxing in a creative but baffling cacophony

Anthony Roth Costanzo’s neon-lit ‘operatic experience’ brought together Handel and Philip Glass plus dancers, a painter … and films of erotic puddings

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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

Evening Standard

Prom 36: Vienna Radio SO/Alsop review – tight teamwork and carefree swagger

Marin Alsop led the orchestra through lively performances of Bartók, Prokofiev and Dvořák, full of rhythmic drive, as well as the UK premiere of Hannah Eisendle’s evocative Heliosis

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Gaming Prom; The Silent Mind; The Electricity of Every Living Thing and more

The first ever video game Prom proves a treat for the open-minded

The Guardian - UK

Kateryna Suprun, violist in the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, on her escape and why music is her front line

As the orchestra prepares to play the Proms, its violist explains why it’s more important than ever to bring Ukraine’s music to the world

Evening Standard

Inside the video game music revolution: ‘The whole world has changed enormously’

Ahead of the BBC’s first ever Gaming Prom, we discover the history of this rich but overlooked genre

Evening Standard

BBC Proms: World's largest classical music festival coming to the Waterfront Hall in Belfast

BBC Proms are opening their festival in Belfast on July 18

Belfast Live

BBC Proms 2022: this year’s must-see concerts

The world’s biggest classical musical festival returns next week. Michael Church chooses his unmissable highlights

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BBC Proms 2022: this year’s must-see concerts

The world’s biggest classical musical festival returns next week. Michael Church chooses his unmissable highlights

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‘She’s badass’: how brick-throwing suffragette Ethel Smyth composed an opera to shake up Britain

She was bisexual, served a prison sentence, and was so outraged by cuts to her opera The Wreckers that she stormed the orchestra pit. Finally, this summer, it will be heard as its extraordinary composer intended

Evening Standard

BBC Proms 2022 highlights: the best concerts to book at the London festival, from the Gaming Prom to Yuja Wang

Our critic picks the best of a bumper crop of Proms gigs to book now

The Independent UK

BBC Proms: Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra to perform at 2022 festival

Russian performers will not be banned from performing in summer concerts

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The Guardian - UK

Proms 2022: back to normal, but why settle for ‘normal’?

The return of international orchestras and an increased focus on concerts outside London are welcome facets, but adventurous and ambitious programming feels in short supply. And, below, our pick of this year’s concerts

The Guardian - UK

Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra to perform at 2022 BBC Proms

Ensemble that includes refugees and Ukrainian members of European orchestras to play in opening week

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