Traitors star and Ted Lasso actor Nick Mohammed will host the Bond and Beyond Prom on 25 August, featuring greatest hits from Skyfall and The Spy Who Loved Me, amongst others.
A season of American music will mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the US Declaration of Independence – including an American Classics Prom with music by Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin and Aaron Copland.
Californian soprano Angel Blue will join the Chineke! Orchestra for a prom that includes music by the Charleston-born composer Edmund Thornton Jenkins, one of the first people to introduce elements of jazz and spirituals into the classical repertoire.
The American repertoire comes at a time when the so-called special relationship between the UK and US is under scrutiny.
Speaking to the Radio Times, Proms director Sam Jackson said the concerts were planned two years ago, before the Presidential election.
“What we didn’t know then was the way in which world events – particularly those relating to the USA – would take an, at times, unprecedented course,” he said.
However, he added: “I believe strongly that the potency and power of classical music, and the stories of those who compose it, should be shared with a broad audience.
“What’s more, we must not allow our current geopolitical climate to stifle culture, or to dissuade us from championing music of both the past and the present. Great art can’t be cancelled.”