Plot: The BBC Proms season opens at the Royal Albert Hall with a live transmission in simultaneous broadcast with Radio 3 of Haydn's The Creation, the first of ten concerts screened this summer.
Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, with German soloists Juliane Banse (soprano), Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor) and Wolfgang Schone (baritone)

BBC Proms - Season 50 - BBC Proms 96: the First Night (Episode 1)
Episode Aired On:
Friday, July 19 1996
29 years ago
Friday, July 19 1996
29 years ago
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