‘Angel Blue wowed the Royal Albert Hall with her vibrant, engaging stage presence’ with her performance at this year’s Last Night of the Proms

Angel Blue took the stage at the Royal Albert Hall last Saturday 14 September giving a ’velvet-voiced’ (The Guardian) performance of Puccini, Ruperto Chapí and Proms staple, Rule, Britannia!

For the occasion, Angel Blue was joined by Sakari Oramo conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra and pianist Sir Stephen Hough.

The concert also featured premieres of Carlos Simon’s Hellfighter’s Blues and Iain Farrington’s Extra Time, which followed Summer is Gone by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Grace Williams’s elegant Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes. The night was concluded by a massive Mexican Wave started by the BBC Singers.

Full list of performers:
Angel Blue – soprano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Stephen Hough – piano
Sakari Oramo – conductor
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus

Angel Blue’s performance has received high praise. The Telegraph described the soprano’s performance as ‘beautifully poised and tender’, further adding that she ‘gave a naughty sultriness’ to Ruperto Chapí’s Las hijas del Zebedeo.

Prom 73: Last Night of the Proms. Photo by Chris Christodoulou

In another sparkling review, The Times noted that ‘she sounded majestic in two Puccini arias that everyone knows, and properly saucy in a zarzuela number known by hardly anyone, delivered while she flung roses at the audience’.

Speaking to Neil Fisher at The Times, Angel stated that she was ‘thrilled to be a part of this tradition’, expressing her excitement to sing Rule, Britannia! and it is safe to say that she delivered.

Angel celebrated her ‘full-circle moment’ by sporting a Union Jack jester’s hat for her performance of Rule, Britannia!

Prom 73: Last Night of the Proms. Photo by Chris Christodoulou

BBC especially praised the playfulness of Angel’s performance: “We’re all a little bit in love now, aren’t we?” said Radio 3’s Katie Derham. “She played that audience like a fiddle‘.

Angel was able to embrace tradition in her performance while singing ‘with such beauty in two Puccini arias that one really wanted more of them’ as stated by Richard Fairman at FT. The soprano ‘showed off a delightful personality’ in a memorable Last Night of the Proms.

Listen to the performance on BBC Sounds or watch part one and part two of the show on iPlayer.

WildKat is delighted to manage Angel Blue’s PR internationally.