Welcome to your daily deep dive into all the musical action at the 2025 BBC Proms. And today's Prom (Saturday 26 July) is just a little bit special - a musical extravaganza inspired by one of the most gripping TV phenomena of recent years.
By order of The Traitors, you’re summoned to a thrilling night of musical deception and drama. Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, today's spine-tingling Prom delves into the eerie, tension-filled soundscape of the global TV phenomenon. Expect sweeping orchestral classics, operatic betrayals, and melodramatic pop hits from the series—now with a dark, symphonic twist.
BBC Proms: The Traitors are in town
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers, joined by guest vocalists, conjure the brooding atmosphere of a Highland castle. With a reimagined theme tune, music from the show, and surprise appearances from familiar faces, this is an unforgettable tribute for every fan—Faithful or Traitor. Cloaks encouraged!
Tonight's music programme includes:
Hidden Citizens: Nothing Is as it Seems
Rob Dougan/Pete Tong: Clubbed to Death
Ludovico Einaudi: Experience
James Newton Howard: The Hanging Tree
London Grammar: Hell to the Liars
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Lacrimosa from the Requiem
Carl Orff: 'O Fortuna' from Carmina burana
Giacomo Puccini: 'E lucevan le stelle' from Tosca
Olivia Rodrigo: vampire
Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: 'Mother Gigogne and the Clowns' from The Nutcracker
- Best Italian operas: five gripping works to explore after Tosca
- The desperately sad tale of Tchaikovsky's sham marriage
What time is today's Prom?
You get two performances of the Traitors Prom today at the Royal Albert Hall at 3pm and 7.30pm. For both concerts, tickets are priced from £33 to £110.
What else is on at the Proms today?
BBC Proms also comes to the The Glasshouse, Gateshead for two concerts today. At 5.30pm, Sage Two hosts folk singer Angeline Morrison for a performance of songs from her 2022 album The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience. The album tells the untold stories of people from the African diaspora and their place in these islands, including ‘Unknown African Boy (d.1830)’, an enslaved child whose body was washed up on the Isles of Scilly.
Elsewhere, ‘Black John’ tells the story of Britain's first known Black horticulturist, while ‘The Beautiful Spotted Black Boy’ follows an enslaved child born with vitiligo, whose patchy complexion caused him to be paraded as a curiosity. Morrison performs tonight with The Sorrow Songs Band and special guests Eliza Carthy and Alex Neilson.
Later, in Sage One at 7.30pm, the Royal Northern Sinfonia orchestra, chorus, and soloists perform Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 2. Nicknamed the ‘Hymn of Praise’, Mendelssohn’s Second is an expression of joy and faith, complete with dances, fanfares and hymns. The dark, sober beauty of Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in D minor will offer a stark contrast.
Claudia Winkleman pic: BBC / Studio Lambert / Cody Burridge
