MWA artists are at the heart of this year’s BBC Proms, from the epic opening to the spectacular finale. Gerald Finley opens the festival and Louise Alder closes it on Last Night, while David Butt Philip, Erin Morley, Adam Pałka, and Huw Montague Rendall appear in key performances throughout the season.
Gerald Finley opens the festival with a performance of Vaughan Williams’s oratorio Sancta Civitas on the First Night of the Proms, conducted by Sakari Oramo and performed with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers and Symphony Chorus. Erin Morley lends her expressive lyric soprano in a Viennese Waltzes-themed Prom featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra. David Butt Philip is the tenor soloist in Frederick Delius’s A Mass of Life, joining Sir Mark Elder, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus and London Philharmonic Choir. Adam Pałka appears as bass soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, under Fabio Luisi and Huw Montague Rendall performs as the Count alongside Louise Alder (Countess) in Glyndebourne’s concert staging of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, conducted by Riccardo Minasi.
As the season progresses, Louise Alder closes the 86‑concert season on Last Night of the Proms—a historic all‑female‑led finale conducted by Elim Chan and featuring trumpeter Alison Balsom, cementing the season’s theme of elevated women’s leadership in the arts.