BBC Proms 2025 Under the Italian Sun with WNO Orchestra
Overview
Rossini William Tell Overture
Puccini Capriccio sinfonico
Berio Folk Songs
Verdi I vespri siciliani Overture
Respighi Il tramonto
Elgar In the South (Alassio)
Join mezzo-soprano Virginie Verrez, Conductor Carlo Rizzi and Welsh National Opera Orchestra for a sumptuous concert showcasing works by Italian composers Respighi, Verdi, Rossini and Puccini.
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 is 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.