All the events, listed by week start here -Week 1
Would like to go to first night - Child of Our Time. However, I shall be at Die Walküre at the Royal Opera House. And I know where I'd prefer to be...!
Fairy Queen - maybe, we'll see. Die Walküre. Yeah, I wouldn't mind going she says, getting increasingly hysterically excited. Berkely, Britten and Vaughan Williams looks attractive, but I suspect I might be in need of a rest by then...
Week Two - Mozart and Mahler, maybe; Mendelssohn and Vaughan Williams, ooh yes; Dream of Gerontius, yes.
Week Three - Saturday eveing looks quite fun, but is bound to be over run with children. Give that a miss. Berlioz, maybe. Sibelius and Brahms, maybe, but it's Jimmy's birthday, so probably not. Rameau and Handel - why not?
Week Four - well, I'm away that weekend, seeing Plácido in Berlin. (Did I mention I was going to see Plácido in Berlin. - you know, that could be four times in one month...you really won't get any sense out of me...); Vaughan Williams, Tippett, Holst - why not?; Songs of the Sea and Enigma Variations - yeah!; Brahms, Beethoven and Wagner - yup;
Week Five Mendelssohn and Beethoven -yes;
Week Six Tippett and Beethoven - yes; Beethoven 9 - yes; Schumann, maybe, but leave before the Stravinsky...; Julius Caesar, definitely; Ravel, Walton and Gorecki, yeah, make a night of it;
Week Seven; Rossini, Wagner and Rimsky-Korsakov, maybe...; Verdi Requiem, definitely; Wagner, Beethoven and Strauss, definitely; Missa Solemnis, definitely;
Week Eight: Lutoslawski and Brahms, maybe; Copland, Vaughan Williams and Berlioz - definitely...Symphonie Fantastique...I've got March to the Scaffold as my ringtone on my new phone...; Brahms, probably; Haydn, maybe, but leave before the Stravinsky...
Gosh, that's a lot.
Maybe I should get a promming season ticket, and decide on a day-by-day basis what to go for. Maybe go to works with which I'm unfamiliar. I don't think I want an arena prom ticket because I'm too small to see anything. If I get a gallery ticket I think the view is unobstructed if distant. But then, would I want to, be able to, Prom for something long like, oh, you know, Die Walküre, or would it be better to try and get a ticket in the Stalls which are, you know, close to the stage...But at least a season ticket guarantees admission. Hmm, thinks about this one...
You know I'll cry if I don't get to Walküre
I've just found the Proms TV schedule Lovely, lovely BBC4.
I ♥ BBC4
Walküre live on the telly. Listen up, Bryn Terfel fans, don't even bother to buy tickets, he will pull a sickie. You can bet on it. Well, you can't, because William Hill are refusing even to take bets on it. 'Twould be best all round if the Terfel fans didn't buy tickets... ducks
