{"id":768609,"date":"2026-09-12T19:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768609\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T19:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:16:13","slug":"watch-last-night-of-the-proms-as-classical-music-showpiece-to-pay-special-tribute-to-dolly-parton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768609\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Last Night of the Proms as classical music showpiece to pay special tribute to Dolly Parton"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the UK’s favourite tenors will take the stage tonightpublished at 18:45 BST<\/p>\n

18:45 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Mark Savage
Music correspondent<\/p>\n

\"NickyImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Born and raised in Dumfries, Scotland, Nicky Spence has
\nemerged as one of the UK\u2019s favourite tenors.<\/p>\n

Trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Nicky
\nwon a recording contract in his final year and released his debut album My
\nFirst Love in 2007.<\/p>\n

After touring with Katherine Jenkins and Dame Shirley
\nBassey, he turned his back on a commercial recording career and returned to
\nGuildhall for a specialist opera course.<\/p>\n

Upon graduating, he joined the English National Opera, where
\nhe created the key character Brian in Nico Muhly\u2019s Two Boys \u2013 a prescient 2011
\nopera about the effect online relationships and chartrooms were having on young
\nmen.<\/p>\n

Ever since, his international career has flourished. In
\n2022, he was named BBC Musician Magazine\u2019s personality of the year.<\/p>\n

But his approach to music has changed since Spence and his
\nhusband, pianist Dylan Perez, became parents two years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cFatherhood made me rethink everything \u2013 including how I
\nhear and sing,\u201d he recently told Gramophone Magazine.<\/p>\n

No stranger to the Proms, he\u2019s back the Royal Albert Hall
\njust a couple of weeks after playing title role in Carl Maria von Weber\u2019s
\nrarely performed opera Oberon.<\/p>\n

Asked whether he\u2019d wear a kilt and sporran for the Last
\nNight, Spence was circumspect.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat would be telling,\u201d he told The Times. \u201cLet\u2019s just say
\npeople may see a bit of leg.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the UK’s favourite tenors will take the stage tonightpublished at 18:45 BST 18:45 BST Mark SavageMusic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-768609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}