Enter Mark Elder, the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique and Monteverdi Choir to give Oberon a Proms premiere 200 years in the making. View image in fullscreen Ever watchable… Tamsin Grieg narrates Timothy Knapman’s new text to Weber’s Oberon at the Proms. Presiding over all was Nicky Spence, hamming it up deliciously (in a foretaste of the Last Night of the Proms) as Oberon. Weber died just months after Oberon’s premiere – from tuberculosis, rather than complications from the libretto. Will Oberon’s Proms premiere also be its final festival outing?