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THURSDAY 21 AUGUST
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- 5.45pm PROMS LITERARY FESTIVAL (RCM)
- 7.30pm PROM 47: BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
5.45pm - 6.30pm: Proms Literary Festival Ian McMillan is joined by novelists Conrad Williams and Frank Tallis to discuss how classical music is portrayed in fiction.
Broadcast on Radio 3: Saturday 23 August, 7.30pm
Prom 47: BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Date Thursday 21 August 2008
- Time 7.30pm - c10.00pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £6-£35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
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Jiří Bělohlávek conducts music from his homeland: Dvořák's infectiously vital Slavonic Dances - which brought him to the attention of Brahms - and Janáček's rarely heard Osud ('Fate').
This swift-moving opera about the writing of an opera - with a luridly melodramatic plot involving unmarried motherhood, suicide, murder and madness - was not performed for three decades after its composer's death but contains some of Janáček's most inspired music.
Štefan Margita stars in the semi-autobiographical role of the composer Živny, with Amanda Roocroft as both the object of his obsessive love and the subject of his long-gestated masterpiece.
- Dvořák Slavonic Dances, Op.46 (37 mins)
- Interval
- Janáček Osud (concert performance, sung in Czech) (78 mins)
Štefan Margita Živny
Amanda Roocroft Mila
Rosalind Plowright Mila's Mother
Aleš Briscein Dr Suda/Hrazda
Owen Gilhooly Konečny
Ailish Tynan Ms Stuhla
Martina Bauerová Ms Pacovska/Fanča/Souckova
George Longworth Doubek as a child
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiří Bělohlávek conductor
BBC Radio 3
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