British tenor Alfie Boe headlined the Scottish finale to this year’s BBC Proms in Dundee on Saturday.
The event, which was held at the Caird Hall for the second year running, also featured the Dundee Proms Chorus a group of 200 singers from the city and beyond.
The chorus was brought together for a special performance last year, and was reformed this year with some new members after “public demand”.
Previous singing experience for the choir was not required, just enthusiasm and time to attend an intensive series of rehearsals.
Boe (37) said: “I performed in Dundee a few years ago and acoustics don’t get any better than at the Caird Hall. The show is a good mix of music, which is what I like, and the Scottish audience is always very enthusiastic.”
One of the UK’s favourite singers, he performed the role of Jean Valjean in the award-winning 25th anniversary concert of Les Miserables at the O2 arena in London.
The former car mechanic who was discovered entertaining his workmates by singing operatic arias now takes on the role in the West End.
At the packed-out Caird Hall, Boe performed works from Les Miserables, the opera Tosca and the Roberta Flack classic First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.
The concert, which was beamed live from Dundee across the nation, contained a wide variety of music including a performance by Travis star Fran Healey, and fiddler Kristan Harvey from Orkney, the young Scottish Traditional Musician of the Year.
Unfortunately, Scottish soprano Lisa Milne withdrew at the last minute because of illness.
Also performing at the show, which marked the conclusion of the annual Proms season, was the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stephen Bell, with the performers introduced by Radio Scotland’s Kaye Adams and Jamie MacDougall.
Mr Bell previously conducted the Royal Philharmonic, the BBC Philharmonic, the Halle and the Britten Sinfonia, and his repertoire ranges from his trademark Elgar interpretations to the Doctor Who Prom.
Photo courtesy of BBC Scotland.