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PROM 1:The Kingdom Gets the 2014 Proms Off to an Auspicious Start

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom PROM 1: Elgar: The Kingdom, Op. 51. Erin Wall (soprano) – The Blessed Virgin; Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano) – Mary Magdalene; Andrew Staples (tenor) – St John; Christopher Purves (bass-baritone) – St Peter; BBC National Chorus of Wales; BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 18.7.2014 (CC)

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Prom 1 CR BBC Chris Christodoulou (L-R) Erin Wall, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Sir Andrew Davis, Andrew Staples and Christopher Purves perform Elgar’s The Kingdom with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Chorus and the BBC National Chorus of Wales at the First Night of the BBC Proms 2014

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A Great Classical Story Gets an Update at Buxton Festival.

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orfeo ed Eurydice (sung in Italian with English surtitles): Soloists, Buxton Festival Chorus. Northern Chamber Orchestra / Stuart Stratford. (conductor), Opera House, Buxton, 13.7.2014. (RJF)

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Orfeo Ed Euridice – Christoph Willibald Gluck – Buxton Festival

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The Novello Singers recapture all the romance of The Great British Musicals

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom The Great British Musicals: The Novello Singers, with soloists Louise Dearman and Jon Robyns, Hosted by Nicholas Parsons and Simon Callow (Saturday matinee only) with Ross Leadbeater (piano), St. James’s Theatre, London, 4-5.7.2014. (IL)

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Novello Singers recapture all the romance of The Great British Musicals © Novello Singers

The Novello Singers include West End performers Rhidian Marc (Les Miserables), Annatt Bass (The Phantom of the Opera), Leigh Rhiannon Coggins (Pirates of Penzance), James Charlton (The Light Princess), Mira Ormala (Love Never Dies), Matthew Crowe (South Pacific), Jonathan Broad (West End Men), Lydia Jenkins (Iolanthe), Victoria Humphreys (The Bakewell Bakeoff), and Ben Irish (HMS Pinafore)]

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