#bbc-proms

#bbc-proms

In her younger years, Annie Clark, the forty-three-year-old singer-songwriter who performs as St. Vincent, was twice mistaken for a prostitute at the Carlyle hotel. The first instance was an outgrowth of her sketchy sublet arrangement. While she lived in a rent-controlled apartment in the East Village, the man who actually held the lease led an itinerant life of luxury, staying at the Carlyle when he was in town.

bringing with it the weight of tradition: a reminder that opera at the Proms has always been about making the grand feel accessible, and the intimate feel expansive. In the vast space of the Royal Albert Hall, the familiar overture races ahead with its restless wit, and suddenly an opera written for the intimacy of late-18th-century Vienna came alive again for thousands of listeners under a single domed roof and for many, many more live on Radio 3.