Poster of Cast and Crew in BBC Proms - The First Night of the Proms (Season 51 - Episode 1) - The First Night of the Proms

BBC Proms - Season 51 - The First Night of the Proms (Episode 1)

Plot: The BBC Proms season opens at the Royal Albert Hall with a live transmission in simultaneous broadcast with Radio 3 of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, the first of ten concerts screened on BBC TV this summer. Guest conductor Bernard Haitink returns to the Proms to conduct the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and BBC Singers, with soloists Karita Mattila (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Herbert Lippert (tenor) and Anthony Michaels-Moore (baritone)
Episode Aired On:
Tuesday, July 15 1997
28 years ago