Proms on Afternoon Concert 14 (20.08.20): G&S - The Yeomen of the Guard

[bluestateprommer]

"Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts from recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs. Today, from a Prom in 2012, the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers with Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard. Jane Glover conducts.

Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard (2 acts)

Elsie Maynard ….. Lisa Milne, soprano
Jack Point ….. Mark Stone, baritone
Colonel Fairfax ….. Andrew Kennedy, tenor
Phoebe Meryll ….. Victoria Simmonds, mezzo-soprano
Wilfred Shadbolt ….. Toby Stafford-Allen, baritone
Leonard Meryll ….. Tom Randle, tenor
Lt Sir Richard Cholmondeley ….. Leigh Melrose, baritone
Dame Carruthers ….. Dame Felicity Palmer, mezzo-soprano
Kate, her niece ..... Mary Bevan, soprano
Sergeant Meryll ..... Mark Richardson, bass-baritone

BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor: Jane Glover"

BBC R3 programme page: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000lv8b

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Touching indeed. It’s the operatic equivalent of the final episode of Blackadder 4. Quite unlike any other G & S plot.