After the radical changes to last year's Last Night, Leonard Slatkin brings back tradition, refreshed with a program that celebrates the Queen's Golden Jubilee, the contrasting centenaries of William Walton and Richard Rodgers, and the first decade of BBC Music Magazine. Part I includes works by Walton and Grieg, plus the world premiere of Bright Cecilia: Variations of a Theme by Purcell (commissioned by BBC Music Magazine). Part II includes works...

Russian Soprano joins conductor Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in a selection of arias and scenes from Italian and Czech opera. Anna Netrebko recently scored major successes - on disc and on stage - with Gianandrea Noseda. Her performance here includes popular favourites from the operatic repertoire. The prom also includes a full performance of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, which premiered at the height of Stalin's terror and...

Tenor Placido Domingo makes his Proms debut as Siegmund in the second instalment of the festival's Ring cycle, which began in 2004 and will continue in 2006 and 2007, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House in a concert performance of the new Covent Garden production of Wagner's Die Walkure with a cast that also features Waltraud Meier as Sieglinde, Lisa Gasteen as Brunnhilde and Bryn Terfel...

Razorlight premiered their new album Slipway Fires at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall. Despite being in a seated venue, the crowd sprung to their feet upon the opening track Golden Touch and remained so, singing and dancing up until the set closer Rip It Up. As well as reeling off previous hits such as Somewhere Else and 2006 UK Number One single America, the band previewed their forthcoming album Slipway Fires in its entirety.

Set in the three weeks from the test explosion in New Mexico to the dropping of the bomb, the action takes viewers into the room where the crucial political decisions are made, on board the Enola Gay, inside the bomb as it explodes, and in Hiroshima.

The 2007 Last Night of the Proms features the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus - conducted by Jiri Belohlavek for the first time with Anna Netrebko (soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor) and Joshua Bell (violin). With final echoes of Shakespeare in works by Dvorak and Thomas Ades, and a rare revival for the anniversary of Elgar, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus are joined by a Russian soprano and an American violinist whose star qualities bring a...

One of the most popular classical music concerts in the world, watched and listened to by an audience of many millions around the globe. The 2009 Last Night brings you Alison Balsom in a concerto by Haydn and Sarah Connolly in a famous lament by Purcell. Oliver Knussen's Flourish is complemented by new fanfares which feature in a link up with Last Night festivities around the country. This year the program also marks 50 years since the death of Albert...

Katie Derham introduces the spectacular climax to the 2010 Proms from the Royal Albert Hall. There are encores from composers featured earlier in the season, with music by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Wagner, Henry Wood and Parry. The star soloists are American soprano Renee Fleming and viola player Maxim Rysanov, and the combined forces of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Chorus and the BBC Singers are conducted by Jiri Belohlavek. Audiences...