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Continuing your indispensable day-by-day guide to all the BBC Proms<\/a><\/strong> concerts at the Royal Albert Hall<\/a><\/strong> this summer. Here’s all you need to know about today’s concert (Wednesday 7 August), which features music from, among others, Schumann, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky.<\/p> If you need to know more about this year’s Proms, head over to our bells-and-whistles 2024 BBC Proms guide<\/a><\/strong> for all the essential info on every 2024 BBC Proms concert. Repertoire, orchestras, soloists, times, ticket prices: you’ll find all you need to know, both about the Proms taking place at the Albert Hall and those at other venues around the UK. There are weekend festivals taking place at Nottingham, Gateshead and Bristol, and chamber music<\/a><\/strong> concerts in Aberdeen, Belfast and Newport. <\/p> Today’s Prom, Prom 25, opens with the overture to Genoveva, Robert Schumann<\/strong><\/a>‘s only opera. The work itself, which owes something to the early operas of Richard Wagner<\/a><\/strong> (particularly Lohengrin<\/a><\/strong><\/em>), is relatively little performed today: however, its overture<\/a><\/strong> remains popular. <\/strong><\/p> Another shorter piece you’ll hear at tonight’s Prom is Pohjola\u2019s Daughter<\/em> by Jean Sibelius<\/a><\/strong>. One of the Finnish composer’s many superbly atmospheric orchestral tone poems, Pohjola\u2019s Daughter<\/em> draws, like Sibelius’s other tone poems, on the Finnish national epic story, the Kalevala<\/em>. In this case, it’s the story (in music) of a beautiful maiden from the far North who makes such impossible demands on a would-be suitor (such as tying an egg into invisible knots!) that, after some heroic struggles, he gives up and continues on his way. <\/p>What’s on at the BBC Proms today?<\/h2>