BBC Proms: The First Night of the Proms

Aired 1997-07-15

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). Introduced by James Naughtie.

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Episodes

Season

11 episodes

BBC Proms: The First Night of the Proms

The First Night of the Proms

BBC Proms 97

BBC Proms 97: The Gondoliers

BBC Proms 97: A Night in the Country

BBC Proms 97: Tales of Love and Passion

BBC Proms 97

BBC Proms 97: North and South

BBC Proms 97

BBC Proms 97

The Last Night of the Proms

The Last Night of the Proms