{"id":614079,"date":"2026-09-12T18:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/614079\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T18:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:48:12","slug":"last-night-of-the-proms-watch-the-finale-of-the-worlds-biggest-classical-music-festival-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/614079\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Night of the Proms: Watch the finale of the world&#8217;s biggest classical music festival &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the UK&#8217;s favourite tenors will take the stage tonightpublished at 18:45 BST<\/p>\n<p>18:45 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/663f41a7-b82c-4c30-83da-7df60f9edcda.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Mark Savage<br \/>Music correspondent<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nicky Spence in a black shirt with white patterns on it. He is singing into a microphone and holding a white smart tablet. Three people are sat behind him.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/245e1427-28c7-4f1d-9621-b746631d49f9.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Born and raised in Dumfries, Scotland, Nicky Spence has<br \/>\nemerged as one of the UK\u2019s favourite tenors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Nicky<br \/>\nwon a recording contract in his final year and released his debut album My<br \/>\nFirst Love in 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After touring with Katherine Jenkins and Dame Shirley<br \/>\nBassey, he turned his back on a commercial recording career and returned to<br \/>\nGuildhall for a specialist opera course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Upon graduating, he joined the English National Opera, where<br \/>\nhe created the key character Brian in Nico Muhly\u2019s Two Boys \u2013 a prescient 2011<br \/>\nopera about the effect online relationships and chartrooms were having on young<br \/>\nmen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ever since, his international career has flourished. In<br \/>\n2022, he was named BBC Musician Magazine\u2019s personality of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But his approach to music has changed since Spence and his<br \/>\nhusband, pianist Dylan Perez, became parents two years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cFatherhood made me rethink everything \u2013 including how I<br \/>\nhear and sing,\u201d he recently told Gramophone Magazine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No stranger to the Proms, he\u2019s back the Royal Albert Hall<br \/>\njust a couple of weeks after playing title role in Carl Maria von Weber\u2019s<br \/>\nrarely performed opera Oberon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked whether he\u2019d wear a kilt and sporran for the Last<br \/>\nNight, Spence was circumspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cThat would be telling,\u201d he told The Times. \u201cLet\u2019s just say<br \/>\npeople may see a bit of leg.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the UK&#8217;s favourite tenors will take the stage tonightpublished at 18:45 BST 18:45 BST Mark SavageMusic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-614079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}