 Domingo will make his debut as Wagner's Siegmund on Monday |
Opera singer Placido Domingo and Ravi Shankar are among the stars gracing the 111th BBC Proms during its eight-week run at London's Albert Hall. It marks the first appearance for 85-year-old sitar player Ravi Shankar, best known in the UK for his collaboration with George Harrison.
Spanish tenor Domingo also makes his Proms debut, singing Siegmund in Wagner's Die Walkure
The First Night is being dedicated to victims of the London bombings.
The programme, which includes performances of Cockaigne and A Child Of Our Time, will remain unchanged but organisers said it will be made "even more poignant by recent events".
 The Last Night of the Proms rounds off more than 70 concerts |
Tippett began writing A Child of Our Time in 1938 following the shooting of a German diplomat by a 17-year old Polish Jew - the retribution was the murder of Jews on Kristallnacht.
The concert is also intended to mark Tippett's centenary and the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, which is being commemorated at the annual event.
"In so many ways the Proms represent the spirit of Londoners," said Proms director Nicholas Kenyon.
"All the performers in the First Night wish both to dedicate this concert to victims and their families and to express the continuing resilience of London and Londoners."
The Proms, now the world's biggest music festival, began as the Mr Robert Newman's Promenade Concerts in 1895.
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