Last Night of the Proms review – musical chaos ensues in near four-hour finale
Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe evening features everything from a rendition of an inscrutable Samuel Barber concerto to a celebration of Dolly Parton, but the real star is tartan-clad tenor Nicky SpenceIn Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, a wealthy man commissions an evening’s entertainment: a lofty new opera and a comic burlesque. But when time constraints force them to be performed…
Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe evening features everything from a rendition of an inscrutable Samuel Barber concerto to a celebration of Dolly Parton, but the real star is tartan-clad tenor Nicky SpenceIn Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, a wealthy man commissions an evening’s entertainment: a lofty new opera and a comic burlesque. But when time constraints force them to be performed…
