Proms 2025 Under the Italian Sun (Bristol) - BBC Proms

24 Aug 2025, Bristol Beacon

19:00 Sun 24 Aug 2025 Next Event

Under the Italian Sun (Bristol)

19:00 Sun 24 Aug 2025 Bristol Beacon - Beacon Hall

Carlo Rizzi and the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera perform sumptuous works by Italian composers Respighi, Verdi, Rossini and Puccini

Programme

- - Gioachino Rossini
  - William Tell – overture(12 mins)
- - Giacomo Puccini
  - Capriccio sinfonico(12 mins)
- - Luciano Berio
  - Folk Songs(23 mins)
- - interval
- - Giuseppe Verdi
  - I vespri siciliani – overture(9 mins)
- - Ottorino Respighi
  - Il tramonto(16 mins)
- - Edward Elgar
  - In the South (Alassio)(20 mins)

Performers

Virginie Verrez
mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
Welsh National Opera Orchestra
Carlo Rizzi
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

Elgar’s In the South captures the exhilarating feeling of an afternoon by the Ligurian coast. Sunset comes and goes for two young lovers in Respighi’s Il tramonto, whose quiet tragedy echoes the tensions in the overture from Verdi’s Sicilian Vespers. There’s exhilarating energy from Rossini’s William Tell overture, and a chance to glance ahead to the joys of Tosca and La bohème in Puccini’s tune-filled Capriccio sinfonico.