BBC Proms 1 to 7 | Classical review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe last note of Simon Boccanegra rang out. Verdi's tragic Doge lay dead on the floor, inches from the lucky front-row Prommers in a packed Royal Albert Hall. Plácido Domingo might be 69 years old but he can hurl himself to the ground with spectacular abandon. Would he, one wondered, leap up with similar agility, or might he need to heave himself awkwardly, limb by stiff limb in front of 6,000 pairs of eyes, "smiling even if it kills me", as Sophia Loren would say.For a...

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