Prom 29 [BBC Proms]

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Part 1

20100807

BBC PROMS 2010

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Donald Macleod.

The National Youth Orchestra's annual Prom puts the spotlight this year on two brilliantly orchestrated nineteenth century French masterworks: Paul Dukas's thrilling mix of witty narrative and symphonic momentum and the symphony that made the young Hector Berlioz's name.

Both works have a dark side - the Sorcerer's Apprentice summoning the anarchic spirits while his master is out of the way and the opium-fuelled nightmares of a young love-sick artist which include his own execution and a witches Sabbath.

The programme also includes the London premiere of Julian Anderson's own capricious, contrast-packed 'Fantasias' a work which showcases the plentiful talent in each of the NYO's instrumental sections in turn.

Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Julian Anderson: Fantasias (London premiere)

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 12th August at 2pm.

NYO/Semyon Bychkov in Dukas's The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Julian Anderson's Fantasias.

Prom 29 (part 1): Chopin, Franck, Saint-saens And Casella

20140808

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

The BBC Philharmonic and their Conductor Laureate, Gianandrea Noseda perform works by Casella, Chopin, Franck and Saint-Sa뀀ns. The orchestra is joined by a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, pianist Benjamin Grosvenor.

Casella: Elegia eroica

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11

7.30pm Interval

7.50pm

Franck: Symphonic Variations

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, 'Organ', Op.78

Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)

David Goode (organ)

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Casella's powerful 'Heroic Elegy', dedicated to the 'unknown soldier', opens the concert and continues this year's Proms series of works written in the shadow of the First World War. Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor joins the orchestra for Chopin's lyrical but virtuosic First Piano Concerto and, after the interval, returns as soloist in Franck's Symphonic Variations. Saint-Sa뀀ns's thrilling journey from darkness to blazing light, the 'Organ' Symphony, closes the programme.

This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 14th August at 2pm.

Gianandrea Noseda conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Casella and Chopin.

Prom 29 (part 1): Stravinsky, Messiaen And Ravel

20150807

The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Nicholas Collon, live at the BBC Proms. They are joined by pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Mozart: Idomeneo - ballet music

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major

7.30 pm

INTERVAL

7.50 pm

Messiaen: Un oiseau des arbres de Vie (Oiseau tui) (orch. Christopher Dingle) (world premiere)

Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements

Ravel: Miroirs - Oiseaux tristes (arr. Colin Matthews) (BBC commission) (world premiere)

Ravel: La valse

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

Nicholas Collon (conductor)

Mozart's Idomeneo owes its ballet sequence to the influence of French opera, and it launches a programme featuring two Frenchmen who idolised Mozart: Ravel and Messiaen. Ravel's Piano Concerto in G adds a jazzy colouring to its Classical influences, while Oiseaux tristes and La valse contrast the doleful calls of lost forest birds with a dark, swirling portrait of the disintegration of Vienna. The world premiere of a recently rediscovered work by Messiaen - originally intended for the composer's ɀclairs sur l'au-del

Prom 29 (part 1): Wagner - Tannhauser

20130804

Wagner 200

Donald Runnicles brings together an international cast and the Concert Association of the Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he is General Music Director, in this concert performance of Wagner's opera Tannh䀀user.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Presented by Louise Fryer.

Wagner: Tannh䀀user, Act 1

7.05pm: Interval

7.35pm

Wagner: Tannh䀀user, Act 2

8.45pm: Interval

9.15pm

Wagner: Tannh䀀user, Act 3

Tannh䀀user - Robert Dean Smith(tenor)

Elisabeth - Heidi Melton (soprano)

Venus - Daniela Sindram (soprano)

Landgraf - Ain Anger (bass)

Wolfram - Christoph Pohl (baritone)

Walter - Thomas Blondelle (tenor)

Heinrich - Andrew Rees (tenor)

Reimar - Brian Bannatyne-Scott (bass)

Biterolf - Ashley Holland (bass)

Shepherd Boy - Hila Fahima (soprano)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Donald Runnicles (conductor)

Knightly minstrel Tannh䀀user has been lover of the godess Venus for a year and a day when he invokes the name of the Virgin Mary and is sent back to the mortal world. There he is reunited with Elisabeth, niece of Landgraf, and a singing tournament is arranged with her hand as the prize. When Tannh䀀user sings in praise of Venus he is forced to become a pilgrim and seek absolution from the Pope in Rome .....

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Louise Fryer presents Act 1 of Wagner's opera Tannhauser.

Varese, Muhly

20120804

Live from the Royal Albert Hall

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

One of the highlights of this year's celebration of youth at the BBC Proms is this evening's appearance by the talented National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain as they scale the heights in Messiaen's Turangalla Symphony, an ecstatic song of love.

The huge orchestral forces and soaring solos for the ondes martenot in Messiaen's Tristan-inspired symphony will surely fill the Royal Albert Hall with glorious sounds. Messiaen's twentieth century classic is framed by a BBC commission from one of America's rising talents and Anna Meredith's acclaimed tour de force of clapping, stamping, singing and body percussion, first performed earlier this year by NYO members and commissioned for the PRS for Music Foundation's New Music 20x12 programme as part of the Cultural Olympiad.

Var耀se: Tuning Up

Nico Muhly: Gait - BBC Commission, London Premiere

Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot)

Joanna MacGregor (piano)

Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Tuesday 14th August at 2pm.

Vasily Petrenko conduts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in Varese and Muhly.

Messiaen, Anna Meredith

20120804

Live from the Royal Albert Hall

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Messiaen: Turangalla Symphony

Anna Meredith: HandsFree

Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot)

Joanna MacGregor (piano)

Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Tuesday 14th August at 2pm.

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain/Vasily Petrenko in Messiaen and Anna Meredith.

Part 2

20100807

BBC PROMS 2010

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Donald Macleod.

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 12th August at 2pm.

Semyon Bychkov conducts the National Youth Orchestra in Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.

Prom 29 (part 2): Chopin, Franck, Saint-saens And Casella

20140808

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Casella: Elegia eroica

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11

7.30pm Interval

7.50pm

Franck: Symphonic Variations

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, 'Organ', Op.78

Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)

David Goode (organ)

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 14th August at 2pm.

BBC Philharmonic in Franck: Symphonic Variations. Saint-Saens: Symphony No 3.

Prom 29 (part 2): Stravinsky, Messiaen And Ravel

20150807

The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Nicholas Collon, live at the BBC Proms. They are joined by pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Mozart: Idomeneo - ballet music

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major

7.30 pm

INTERVAL

7.50 pm

Messiaen: Un oiseau des arbres de Vie (Oiseau tui) (orch. Christopher Dingle) (world premiere)

Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements

Ravel: Miroirs - Oiseaux tristes (arr. Colin Matthews) (BBC commission) (world premiere)

Ravel: La valse

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

Nicholas Collon (conductor)

Prom 29 (part 2): Wagner - Tannhauser

20130804

Wagner 200

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Presented by Louise Fryer.

Wagner: Tannh䀀user, Act 1

7.05pm: Interval

7.35pm

Wagner: Tannh䀀user, Act 2

8.45pm: Interval

9.15pm

Wagner: Tannh䀀user, Act 3

Tannh䀀user - Robert Dean Smith(tenor)

Elisabeth - Heidi Melton (soprano)

Venus - Daniela Sindram (soprano)

Landgraf - Ain Anger (bass)

Wolfram - Christoph Pohl (baritone)

Walter - Thomas Blondelle (tenor)

Heinrich - Andrew Rees (tenor)

Reimar - Brian Bannatyne-Scott (bass)

Biterolf - Ashley Holland (bass)

Shepherd Boy - Hila Fahima (soprano)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Donald Runnicles (conductor)

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Louise Fryer presents Act 2 of Wagner's opera Tannhauser.

Prom 29 (part 3): Wagner - Tannhauser

20130804

Wagner 200

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Presented by Louise Fryer.

Wagner: Tannh䀀user, Act 1

7.05pm: Interval

7.35pm

Wagner: Tannh䀀user, Act 2

8.45pm: Interval

9.15pm

Wagner: Tannh䀀user, Act 3

Tannh䀀user - Robert Dean Smith(tenor)

Elisabeth - Heidi Melton (soprano)

Venus - Daniela Sindram (soprano)

Landgraf - Ain Anger (bass)

Wolfram - Christoph Pohl (baritone)

Walter - Thomas Blondelle (tenor)

Heinrich - Andrew Rees (tenor)

Reimar - Brian Bannatyne-Scott (bass)

Biterolf - Ashley Holland (bass)

Shepherd Boy - Hila Fahima (soprano)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Donald Runnicles (conductor)

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Louise Fryer presents Act 3 of Wagner's opera Tannhauser.

Episodes

Episode	Title	First Broadcast	Comments
01	Part 1	20100807	BBC PROMS 2010 Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Presented by Donald Macleod. The National Youth Orchestra's annual Prom puts the spotlight this year on two brilliantly orchestrated nineteenth century French masterworks: Paul Dukas's thrilling mix of witty narrative and symphonic momentum and the symphony that made the young Hector Berlioz's name. Both works have a dark side - the Sorcerer's Apprentice summoning the anarchic spirits while his master is out of the way and the opium-fuelled nightmares of a young love-sick artist which include his own execution and a witches Sabbath. The programme also includes the London premiere of Julian Anderson's own capricious, contrast-packed 'Fantasias' a work which showcases the plentiful talent in each of the NYO's instrumental sections in turn. Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice Julian Anderson: Fantasias (London premiere) National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Semyon Bychkov (conductor) This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 12th August at 2pm. NYO/Semyon Bychkov in Dukas's The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Julian Anderson's Fantasias.
01	Prom 29 (part 1): Chopin, Franck, Saint-saens And Casella	20140808	Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Presented by Andrew McGregor The BBC Philharmonic and their Conductor Laureate, Gianandrea Noseda perform works by Casella, Chopin, Franck and Saint-Sa뀀ns. The orchestra is joined by a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. Casella: Elegia eroica Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 7.30pm Interval 7.50pm Franck: Symphonic Variations Saint-Sa뀀ns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, 'Organ', Op.78 Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) David Goode (organ) Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) Casella's powerful 'Heroic Elegy', dedicated to the 'unknown soldier', opens the concert and continues this year's Proms series of works written in the shadow of the First World War. Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor joins the orchestra for Chopin's lyrical but virtuosic First Piano Concerto and, after the interval, returns as soloist in Franck's Symphonic Variations. Saint-Sa뀀ns's thrilling journey from darkness to blazing light, the 'Organ' Symphony, closes the programme. This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 14th August at 2pm. Gianandrea Noseda conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Casella and Chopin.
01	Prom 29 (part 1): Stravinsky, Messiaen And Ravel	20150807	The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Nicholas Collon, live at the BBC Proms. They are joined by pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Presented by Petroc Trelawny Mozart: Idomeneo - ballet music Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major 7.30 pm INTERVAL 7.50 pm Messiaen: Un oiseau des arbres de Vie (Oiseau tui) (orch. Christopher Dingle) (world premiere) Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements Ravel: Miroirs - Oiseaux tristes (arr. Colin Matthews) (BBC commission) (world premiere) Ravel: La valse Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) Nicholas Collon (conductor) Mozart's Idomeneo owes its ballet sequence to the influence of French opera, and it launches a programme featuring two Frenchmen who idolised Mozart: Ravel and Messiaen. Ravel's Piano Concerto in G adds a jazzy colouring to its Classical influences, while Oiseaux tristes and La valse contrast the doleful calls of lost forest birds with a dark, swirling portrait of the disintegration of Vienna. The world premiere of a recently rediscovered work by Messiaen - originally intended for the composer's ɀclairs sur l'au-del
01	Prom 29 (part 1): Wagner - Tannhauser	20130804	Wagner 200 Donald Runnicles brings together an international cast and the Concert Association of the Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he is General Music Director, in this concert performance of Wagner's opera Tannh䀀user. Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Louise Fryer. Wagner: Tannh䀀user, Act 1 7.05pm: Interval 7.35pm Wagner: Tannh䀀user, Act 2 8.45pm: Interval 9.15pm Wagner: Tannh䀀user, Act 3 Tannh䀀user - Robert Dean Smith(tenor) Elisabeth - Heidi Melton (soprano) Venus - Daniela Sindram (soprano) Landgraf - Ain Anger (bass) Wolfram - Christoph Pohl (baritone) Walter - Thomas Blondelle (tenor) Heinrich - Andrew Rees (tenor) Reimar - Brian Bannatyne-Scott (bass) Biterolf - Ashley Holland (bass) Shepherd Boy - Hila Fahima (soprano) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Donald Runnicles (conductor) Knightly minstrel Tannh䀀user has been lover of the godess Venus for a year and a day when he invokes the name of the Virgin Mary and is sent back to the mortal world. There he is reunited with Elisabeth, niece of Landgraf, and a singing tournament is arranged with her hand as the prize. When Tannh䀀user sings in praise of Venus he is forced to become a pilgrim and seek absolution from the Pope in Rome ..... Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Louise Fryer presents Act 1 of Wagner's opera Tannhauser.
01	Varese, Muhly	20120804	Live from the Royal Albert Hall Presented by Petroc Trelawny One of the highlights of this year's celebration of youth at the BBC Proms is this evening's appearance by the talented National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain as they scale the heights in Messiaen's Turangalla Symphony, an ecstatic song of love. The huge orchestral forces and soaring solos for the ondes martenot in Messiaen's Tristan-inspired symphony will surely fill the Royal Albert Hall with glorious sounds. Messiaen's twentieth century classic is framed by a BBC commission from one of America's rising talents and Anna Meredith's acclaimed tour de force of clapping, stamping, singing and body percussion, first performed earlier this year by NYO members and commissioned for the PRS for Music Foundation's New Music 20x12 programme as part of the Cultural Olympiad. Var耀se: Tuning Up Nico Muhly: Gait - BBC Commission, London Premiere Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot) Joanna MacGregor (piano) Vasily Petrenko (conductor) This Prom will be repeated on Tuesday 14th August at 2pm. Vasily Petrenko conduts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in Varese and Muhly.
02	Messiaen, Anna Meredith	20120804	Live from the Royal Albert Hall Presented by Petroc Trelawny One of the highlights of this year's celebration of youth at the BBC Proms is this evening's appearance by the talented National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain as they scale the heights in Messiaen's Turangalla Symphony, an ecstatic song of love. The huge orchestral forces and soaring solos for the ondes martenot in Messiaen's Tristan-inspired symphony will surely fill the Royal Albert Hall with glorious sounds. Messiaen's twentieth century classic is framed by a BBC commission from one of America's rising talents and Anna Meredith's acclaimed tour de force of clapping, stamping, singing and body percussion, first performed earlier this year by NYO members and commissioned for the PRS for Music Foundation's New Music 20x12 programme as part of the Cultural Olympiad. Messiaen: Turangalla Symphony Anna Meredith: HandsFree Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot) Joanna MacGregor (piano) Vasily Petrenko (conductor) This Prom will be repeated on Tuesday 14th August at 2pm. National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain/Vasily Petrenko in Messiaen and Anna Meredith.
02	Part 2	20100807	BBC PROMS 2010 Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Presented by Donald Macleod. The National Youth Orchestra's annual Prom puts the spotlight this year on two brilliantly orchestrated nineteenth century French masterworks: Paul Dukas's thrilling mix of witty narrative and symphonic momentum and the symphony that made the young Hector Berlioz's name. Both works have a dark side - the Sorcerer's Apprentice summoning the anarchic spirits while his master is out of the way and the opium-fuelled nightmares of a young love-sick artist which include his own execution and a witches Sabbath. The programme also includes the London premiere of Julian Anderson's own capricious, contrast-packed 'Fantasias' a work which showcases the plentiful talent in each of the NYO's instrumental sections in turn. Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Semyon Bychkov (conductor) This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 12th August at 2pm. Semyon Bychkov conducts the National Youth Orchestra in Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.
02	Prom 29 (part 2): Chopin, Franck, Saint-saens And Casella	20140808	Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Presented by Andrew McGregor The BBC Philharmonic and their Conductor Laureate, Gianandrea Noseda perform works by Casella, Chopin, Franck and Saint-Sa뀀ns. The orchestra is joined by a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. Casella: Elegia eroica Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 7.30pm Interval 7.50pm Franck: Symphonic Variations Saint-Sa뀀ns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, 'Organ', Op.78 Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) David Goode (organ) Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) Casella's powerful 'Heroic Elegy', dedicated to the 'unknown soldier', opens the concert and continues this year's Proms series of works written in the shadow of the First World War. Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor joins the orchestra for Chopin's lyrical but virtuosic First Piano Concerto and, after the interval, returns as soloist in Franck's Symphonic Variations. Saint-Sa뀀ns's thrilling journey from darkness to blazing light, the 'Organ' Symphony, closes the programme. This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 14th August at 2pm. BBC Philharmonic in Franck: Symphonic Variations. Saint-Saens: Symphony No 3.
02	Prom 29 (part 2): Stravinsky, Messiaen And Ravel	20150807	The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Nicholas Collon, live at the BBC Proms. They are joined by pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Presented by Petroc Trelawny Mozart: Idomeneo - ballet music Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major 7.30 pm INTERVAL 7.50 pm Messiaen: Un oiseau des arbres de Vie (Oiseau tui) (orch. Christopher Dingle) (world premiere) Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements Ravel: Miroirs - Oiseaux tristes (arr. Colin Matthews) (BBC commission) (world premiere) Ravel: La valse Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) Nicholas Collon (conductor) Mozart's Idomeneo owes its ballet sequence to the influence of French opera, and it launches a programme featuring two Frenchmen who idolised Mozart: Ravel and Messiaen. Ravel's Piano Concerto in G adds a jazzy colouring to its Classical influences, while Oiseaux tristes and La valse contrast the doleful calls of lost forest birds with a dark, swirling portrait of the disintegration of Vienna. The world premiere of a recently rediscovered work by Messiaen - originally intended for the composer's ɀclairs sur l'au-del
02	Prom 29 (part 2): Wagner - Tannhauser	20130804	Wagner 200 Donald Runnicles brings together an international cast and the Concert Association of the Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he is General Music Director, in this concert performance of Wagner's opera Tannh䀀user. Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Louise Fryer. Wagner: Tannh䀀user, Act 1 7.05pm: Interval 7.35pm Wagner: Tannh䀀user, Act 2 8.45pm: Interval 9.15pm Wagner: Tannh䀀user, Act 3 Tannh䀀user - Robert Dean Smith(tenor) Elisabeth - Heidi Melton (soprano) Venus - Daniela Sindram (soprano) Landgraf - Ain Anger (bass) Wolfram - Christoph Pohl (baritone) Walter - Thomas Blondelle (tenor) Heinrich - Andrew Rees (tenor) Reimar - Brian Bannatyne-Scott (bass) Biterolf - Ashley Holland (bass) Shepherd Boy - Hila Fahima (soprano) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Donald Runnicles (conductor) Knightly minstrel Tannh䀀user has been lover of the godess Venus for a year and a day when he invokes the name of the Virgin Mary and is sent back to the mortal world. There he is reunited with Elisabeth, niece of Landgraf, and a singing tournament is arranged with her hand as the prize. When Tannh䀀user sings in praise of Venus he is forced to become a pilgrim and seek absolution from the Pope in Rome ..... Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Louise Fryer presents Act 2 of Wagner's opera Tannhauser.
03	Prom 29 (part 3): Wagner - Tannhauser	20130804	Wagner 200 Donald Runnicles brings together an international cast and the Concert Association of the Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he is General Music Director, in this concert performance of Wagner's opera Tannh䀀user. Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Louise Fryer. Wagner: Tannh䀀user, Act 1 7.05pm: Interval 7.35pm Wagner: Tannh䀀user, Act 2 8.45pm: Interval 9.15pm Wagner: Tannh䀀user, Act 3 Tannh䀀user - Robert Dean Smith(tenor) Elisabeth - Heidi Melton (soprano) Venus - Daniela Sindram (soprano) Landgraf - Ain Anger (bass) Wolfram - Christoph Pohl (baritone) Walter - Thomas Blondelle (tenor) Heinrich - Andrew Rees (tenor) Reimar - Brian Bannatyne-Scott (bass) Biterolf - Ashley Holland (bass) Shepherd Boy - Hila Fahima (soprano) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Donald Runnicles (conductor) Knightly minstrel Tannh䀀user has been lover of the godess Venus for a year and a day when he invokes the name of the Virgin Mary and is sent back to the mortal world. There he is reunited with Elisabeth, niece of Landgraf, and a singing tournament is arranged with her hand as the prize. When Tannh䀀user sings in praise of Venus he is forced to become a pilgrim and seek absolution from the Pope in Rome ..... Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Louise Fryer presents Act 3 of Wagner's opera Tannhauser.