Royalty on Screen: A Jubilee Celebration
As part of Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, BBC Radio 2, the BBC Concert Orchestra and soprano Carly Paoli present an evening of music most royal.
From Elizabeth I, played by Bette Davis in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, to Elizabeth II played by Claire Foy, Olivia Colman and Imelda Staunton in The Crown, monarchs on screen have long been accompanied by majestic music.
Come and enjoy a concert of splendid tunes, lush ballads and classical repertoire that conjure monarchs’ worlds, including music from King’s Rhapsody, Camelot, The Queen, Shakespeare in Love and The King & I.
Beethoven and Puccini appear via their music that captured royal moments in The King’s Speech and Grace of Monaco.
And no concert of royal music would be complete without Walton’s glorious Crown Imperial, the march written for George VI’s coronation and later performed at Elizabeth II’s, the first televised coronation.
Conducted by Stephen Bell* and presented by BBC Radio 2’s resident film critic, James King, join us at the Southbank Centre’s appropriately named Queen Elizabeth Hall for music from the big and small screen with a distinctly royal flavour.
Performers
- BBC Concert Orchestra
- Stephen Bell conductor *
- Carly Paoli soprano
- James King presenter
Repertoire
- Korngold: Overture, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
- Hans Zimmer: Main theme
- Rupert Gregson-Williams: Duck shoot from The Crown
- Stephen Warbeck: Shakespeare in Love, Suite
- Ivor Novello: Overture; Fly home, little heart from King's Rhapsody
- Debbie Wiseman: Wolf Hall, Concert Suite
- George Fenton: Front titles; Smile, it's what you're paid for from The Madness of King George
- Loewe: Overture; Before I gaze at you again from Camelot
- Walton: Prelude from Richard III
- Interval
- Richard Rodgers: Overture; I whistle a happy tune from The King and I
- Beethoven: Excerpt from Allegretto (2nd movement) from Symphony No.7 (Speaking Unto Nations from The King's Speech)
- Alexandre Desplat: The Queen, Suite
- Puccini: O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi (Grace of Monaco)
- Paul Cantelon: Opening titles; Finale from The Other Boleyn Girl
- Walton: Coronation March, Crown Imperial
- Monty Norman: The James Bond Theme (Dr. No)
Need to know
For ages 8+
* Please note change of conductor from originally advertised
Dates & times
Price
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- Concessions25%**
* Excludes £3.50 booking fee.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
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