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Performances of Sophie Bevan at BBC Orchestras and Choirs

Fri 4 Apr 2025
- 19:30
  Wigglesworth conducts Debussy and Berg
  Barbican, London
  Poetry unlocks the imagination, as Ryan Wigglesworth and soprano Sophie Bevan plunge into the wild, wondrous sonic universe of Claude Debussy and Alban Berg.
  Poetry unlocks the imagination, as Ryan Wigglesworth and soprano Sophie Bevan plunge into the wild, wondrous sonic universe of Claude Debussy and Alban Berg.
  Programme
  Alban Berg
  Three Pieces from the Lyric Suite(17 mins)
  Claude Debussy
  Le Livre de Baudelaire (arr. John Adams)(22 mins)
  interval
  Alban Berg
  Der Wein(12 mins)
  Claude Debussy
  Nocturnes(25 mins)
  Performers
  Ryan Wigglesworth
  conductor
  conductor
  Sophie Bevan
  soprano
  soprano
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  BBC Symphony Chorus
  Composers
  Alban Berg
  Claude Debussy
  Part of
  BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2024-25 Barbican Season
Fri 18 Apr 2025
- 19:30
  Easter at King's: Ein deutsches Requiem
  King's College Cambridge
  Programme
  Johannes Brahms
  A German Requiem
  Performers
  Daniel Hyde
  conductor
  conductor
  Sophie Bevan
  soprano
  soprano
  Gareth Brynmor John
  baritone
  baritone
  Philharmonia Chorus
  BBC Concert Orchestra
  Composers
  Johannes Brahms
  Part of
  BBC Concert Orchestra 2024-2025
Thu 26 Mar 2026
- 19:30
  Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande
  City Halls
  A dreamlike tale of love and fate, wrapped in Debussy’s hypnotic harmonies.
  A dreamlike tale of love and fate, wrapped in Debussy’s hypnotic harmonies.
  Programme
  Claude Debussy
  Pelléas et Mélisande(195 mins)(concert performance; sung in French with English surtitles)
  Performers
  BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
  Huw Montague Rendall
  Pelléas - tenor
  Pelléas - tenor
  Sophie Bevan
  Mélisande - soprano
  Mélisande - soprano
  David Stout
  Golaud - baritone
  Golaud - baritone
  Karen Cargill
  Geneviève – mezzo-soprano
  Geneviève – mezzo-soprano
  Alastair Miles
  Arkel – bass
  Arkel – bass
  Ryan Wigglesworth
  Conductor
  Conductor
  Composers
  Claude Debussy
  Part of
  BBC SSO 2025-26 Season BBC SSO Glasgow Series 2025/26
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Sun 29 Mar 2026
- 15:00
  Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in Edinburgh
  Usher Hall, Edinburgh
  A dreamlike tale of love and fate, wrapped in Debussy’s hypnotic harmonies.
  A dreamlike tale of love and fate, wrapped in Debussy’s hypnotic harmonies.
  Programme
  Claude Debussy
  Pelléas et Mélisande(195 mins)(concert performance; sung in French with English surtitles)
  Performers
  Huw Montague Rendall
  Pelléas - tenor
  Pelléas - tenor
  Sophie Bevan
  Mélisande - soprano
  Mélisande - soprano
  David Stout
  Golaud - baritone
  Golaud - baritone
  Karen Cargill
  Geneviève – mezzo-soprano
  Geneviève – mezzo-soprano
  Alastair Miles
  Arkel – bass
  Arkel – bass
  Ryan Wigglesworth
  Conductor
  Conductor
  BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
  Composers
  Claude Debussy
  Part of
  BBC SSO 2025-26 Season BBC SSO Edinburgh Series 2025/26
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Thu 21 May 2026
- 19:30
  Closing Night: BBC Singers, Bruckner, Wigglesworth
  City Halls
  A glorious finale to the 90th season, where voices and orchestra soar as one.
  A glorious finale to the 90th season, where voices and orchestra soar as one.
  Programme
  Anton Bruckner
  Ave Maria (1861 setting)(4 mins)
  Ryan Wigglesworth
  Magnificat - for solo soprano, chorus and orchestra(30 mins)(revised version, world premiere)
  interval
  Anton Bruckner
  Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, ‘Romantic’(65 mins)
  Performers
  BBC Singers
  Sophie Bevan
  soprano
  soprano
  BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
  Composers
  Anton Bruckner
  Ryan Wigglesworth
  Part of
  BBC SSO 2025-26 Season BBC SSO Glasgow Series 2025/26
  Book Tickets Now