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• Record Review’s Building A Library focusing on Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 4
(Saturday 14 May)
• Essential Classics devoting five Essential Moments to Vaughan Williams (Monday 23
to Friday 27 May)
• Opera on 3 presenting an archive performance of the opera Sir John In Love, first
broadcast from English National Opera in 2006 (Saturday 14 May)

Opera on 3 broadcasts new productions from some of the UK’s most prestigious opera
houses

Giving listeners a place in the front row at some of the country’s most prestigious
opera houses for their much-anticipated new productions, Opera on 3 presents:

• From London’s Royal Opera House, Britten’s Peter Grimes featuring Allan Clayton in
the title role, Bryn Terfel as Captain Balstrode, Maria Bengtsson as Ellen Orford, and
Sir John Tomlinson as Swallow (Saturday 23 April)
• Saint-Saëns’ Samson Et Dalila with conductor Antonio Pappano leading Elīna
Garanča as Dalila and SeokJong Baek as Samson (Saturday 25 June)
• From London’s English National Opera, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, with
Sally Matthews as the Vixen and Pumeza Matshikiza as the Fox, as part of a cast led
by Martyn Brabbins (Saturday 18 June)
• From Leeds’ Opera North, a concert performance of Wagner’s Parsifal with
conductor Richard Farnes and a cast including Toby Spence in the title role and
Katarina Karnéus as Kundry (Saturday 2 July).

BBC Performing Groups

BBC Singers

A Choral Pilgrimage with Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin, including music by Joby
Talbot and a brand new collaboration between Joanna Marsh and electronics artist
Glenn Scott (BBC Radio 3 In Concert, Friday 20 May);

BBC Symphony Orchestra

The ensemble is live from London’s Barbican Centre with conductor Ryan
Wigglesworth, presenting a programme including the UK premiere of Tristan Murail’s
BBC co-commission Piano Concerto, L'œil Du Cyclone with pianist François-
Frédéric Guy; and with conductor Alpesh Chauhan for the closing concert in the
orchestra’s 2021-22 Barbican season, presenting the world premiere of Richard
Baker’s BBC commission The Price Of Curiosity; Rachmaninov’s Fantasy On A
Theme Of Paganini with pianist Stephen Hough; and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9
(Radio 3 In Concert, Friday 27 May).

The Spring season also includes a performance recorded at London’s Barbican
Centre, led by Nathalie Stuzmann, including Brahms’s Naïne, with the BBC
Symphony Chorus; and Tchiakovsky’s Symphony No. 5, Pathétique (Radio 3 In
Concert, Tuesday 31 May).

BBC Concert Orchestra