Prom 2 (14.7.12): Lerner & Loewe – My Fair Lady

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Saturday 14 July at 7.00 p.m.
Royal Albert Hall

Loewe
My Fair Lady (170 mins)
(semi-staged)
Anthony Andrews actor, Proms debut artist (Professor Henry Higgins)
Annalene Beechey vocalist (Eliza Doolittle)
John Wilson Orchestra
John Wilson conductor
Shaun Kerrison stage director

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I'm reasonably in favour of musicals being given the operatic treatment, but less keen on "vocalists", who turn out to be microphonists. Good singers should be able to sing over an orchestra that is correctly balanced.

[bluestateprommer]

For EA, the BBC Proms listing now shows a fuller cast for Prom 2, though not complete, e.g. the cast members for Harry, Jamie and Zoltan Karpathy aren't listed. The Forum listing (i.e. by me) is updated with the fuller cast, in a slightly tweaked order.

Regarding your point about miking the artists, since it would appear that the full spoken text is included as well, then by definition, everyone on stage has to be miked, so that the dialogue can carry throughout the RAH. It's obviously easier to mike for everything, dialogue and songs, all under one system.

[Hornspieler]

Prom 2 (14.7.12): Lerner & Loewe – My Fair Lady

Saturday 14 July at 7.00 p.m.
Royal Albert Hall

Loewe
My Fair Lady (170 mins)
(semi-staged)
Anthony Andrews actor, Proms debut artist (Professor Henry Higgins)
Annalene Beechey vocalist (Eliza Doolittle)
John Wilson Orchestra
John Wilson conductor
Shaun Kerrison stage director

How can this be PROM 2 if the opening night (PROM 1) is on 17th July?

Where can one find the complete Proms 2012 programme schedule?

HS

[MrGongGong]

I'm reasonably in favour of musicals being given the operatic treatment, but less keen on "vocalists", who turn out to be microphonists. Good singers should be able to sing over an orchestra that is correctly balanced.

Oh dear
I'm definitely not going to this one
but I think you are confusing things somewhat and is that a "law" for ALL singers ?
it's not (unfortunately) Rheingold

(whatever happened to our "friend" who used to turn up about this time of year and go on endlessly about how singers using microphones was somehow the work of Satan ? )

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Prom 2 (14.7.12): Lerner & Loewe – My Fair Lady

How can this be PROM 2 if the opening night (PROM 1) is on 17th July?

Where can one find the complete Proms 2012 programme schedule?

HS

HS: the Proms begin on Friday 13th (!) July! The 17th is a programme of Strauss, Saariaho and Sibelius!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2012/july-13

[Hornspieler]

HS: the Proms begin on Friday 13th (!) July! The 17th is a programme of Strauss, Saariaho and Sibelius!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2012/july-13

Many thanks, FHG. The apparent lack of a full list of the 2012 Proms has me somewhat confused!

Anyway, Friday the Thirteenth looks like a very appropriate day to give that opening mish-mash of the Proms season.

HS

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

(whatever happened to our "friend" who used to turn up about this time of year and go on endlessly about how singers using microphones was somehow the work of Satan ? )

That's the way I feel. Microphones don't flatter the human voice.

[MrGongGong]

That's the way I feel. Microphones don't flatter the human voice.

ALL microphones ?
Always ?
Everywhere ?

Diamanda Galas unplugged ?

[Osborn]

That's the way I feel. Microphones don't flatter the human voice.

...Or orchestras. Time to stop buying CDs then & use the savings to go to concerts?