Last Night of the Proms 2026

Live at the BBC Proms: Superstar pianist Yuja Wang is joined by Scottish tenor Nicky Spence and massed BBC forces, all marshalled by conductor Sakari Oramo.

Presented by Georgia Mann & Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Nicky Spence, tenor
Yuja Wang, piano
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor

Bernstein: Candide: Overture
Foulds: Keltic Suite, ii. ‘Lament’
Dvořák: Rusalka: Act I – ‘Vidino divná, přesladká’
Smetana: Ma Vlast - Vltava (The Moldau)
Samy Moussa: Dithyramb (BBC commission: world premiere)
Barber: Piano Concerto, Op. 38

c.8.40pm
During the interval, Petroc & Georgia chat to soprano Louise Alder who was one of the soloists at the Last Night of the Proms last year and performed Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne earlier this season, BBC Radio 6 Music broadcaster Stuart Maconie who curated the groundbreaking Prog Rock Prom at the start of this season and the Northern Soul Prom in 2023, Sofi Jeannin, the outgoing Chief Conductor of the BBC Singers, and tonight’s star tenor Nicky Spence.

9pm
Holst: The Planets – Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
Alexander Tsfasman: Jazz Suite for Piano and Orchestra
Various, arr. Stuart Calvert: Scotch Snap
Anne Dudley: Iris of Life (BBC commission: world premiere)
Loesser. arr. Mark Cumberland: Guys & Dolls - Sit down you’re rocking the boat
Trad. arr. Henry Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Arne arr. Sargent: Rule, Britannia!
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
Parry, arr. Elgar: Jerusalem
arr. Britten: The National Anthem
Trad. Arr. Paul Campbell: Auld Lang Syne

The culmination of a summer of over 80 concerts – including at venues around the country – classical music’s greatest international party draws the 2026 Proms to a close while echoing some of the themes of the season. Superstar pianist Yuja Wang returns following her last appearance here in 2023. Her talents are matched by the vocal and stage prowess of charismatic Scottish tenor Nicky Spence, whose repertoire ranges from operatic roles by Britten and Janáček to the witty, urbane numbers of Noël Coward. As ever, BBC forces flood the stage of the Royal Albert, all marshalled by Sakari Oramo, returning for his fifth Prom this summer – including an appearance as violinist in Bristol – and his seventh Last Night.