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.Aurora returns to the BBC Proms with a signature memorised and dramatised performance. This year, we unwrap Shostakovich’s gripping Fifth Symphony.
Explore a symphony from the inside out. Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra reflect this year’s Shostakovich anniversary with a Prom that takes the audience under the hood of a 20th-century masterpiece and into the mind of the man who made it. Actors join our players to bring to life a symphony born in the shadow of Stalin’s regime – music on the edge of life and death by a composer treading a dangerous line between political obedience and artistic defiance.
Created in collaboration with Frantic Assembly.