BBC SSO 2025/26: Afternoon Performance - Prokofiev's 'Peter and the Wolf'

Sunday
16.11.2025
2.00pm

Rory kinnear narrates prokofiev's ‘Peter and the wolf’

£17.50 (includes restoration fund) - Early Bird Rate
£20.50 (includes restoration fund) - if bought less than 2 weeks before the concert

COPLAND - Short Symphony
TCHAIKOVSKY - Variations on a Rococo Theme
_Interval_
COPLAND - Lincoln Portrait
PROKOFIEV - Peter and the Wolf

STERLING ELLIOTT cello
RYAN WIGGLESWORTH conductor

Rory Kinnear narrator

Just announced! Olivier Award-winning actor Rory Kinnear (best known as Bill Tanner in the James Bond films Quantum of Solace, Skyfall and Spectre) joins as narrator in Prokofiev’s 'Peter and the Wolf', the much-loved symphonic tale for children... and grown-ups too!

With Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth and a charismatic narration by Rory Kinnear, it’s a perfect finale to a whole concert of music at its most playful, witty and wise. Aaron Copland salutes a great American statesman, and crams a whole symphony into 15 primary-coloured minutes: a mini-masterpiece from the decade that saw the birth of the BBC SSO.

In between, BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artist Sterling Elliott sings and sparkles his way through Tchaikovsky’s delightful showpiece for cello and orchestra.

_Seating for Afternoon Performances is unreserved_