Celebrating Puccini

To mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Giacomo Puccini, one of the greatest ever opera composers, the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Matthew Kofi Waldren presents a special Friday Night is Music Night in which opera goes to the movies, and movie music comes to life. The orchestra is joined by dazzling British opera singers Anna Patalong and Charne Rochford as well as West End sensation Tyrone Huntley in epic movie themes, arias and showtunes.

Presented by Gareth Malone and recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studios on 20 September 2024.

Puccini: La Tregenda from Le Villi
Puccini: Vissi d’arte from Tosca
Puccini: E lucevan le stelle from Tosca
Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville
Rodgers & Hammerstein : Younger Than Springtime from South Pacific
Puccini: Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut
Claude-Michel Schönberg: Bring Him Home from Les Misérables
John Williams: Star Wars Theme (A New Hope)

INTERVAL

Korngold arr. Black: Overture to The Sea Hawk
Puccini: Un bel dì from Madama Butterfly
Claude-Michel Schönberg: Why God, Why from Miss Saigon
Verdi: Overture to La Forza del destino
De Curtis: Non ti scordar di me
Puccini: Intermezzo from Suor Angelica
Puccini: Nessun dorma from Turandot
Puccini: O soave fanciulla from La Boheme

Anna Patalong (soprano)
Charne Rochford (tenor)
Tyrone Huntley (singer)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Matthew Kofi Waldren (conductor)