Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Nicola Benedetti and Sir Simon Rattle will take part in this year's Proms – but they are likely to perform to an empty Royal Albert Hall.
The programme has been announced for the annual classical music festival, which is set to mark its 125th year amid unprecedented circumstances and without live audiences.
It will have a "virtual" opening night, followed by broadcasts from the archives and a final two weeks of live performances broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC Four and Player from August 28.
A number of composers will be asked to write works that respond to the worldwide situation caused by the pandemic, including for the Last Night.
The Last Night will be led by Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska with South African soprano Golda Schultz on September 12.
BBC Proms director David Pickard said: “The 2020 Proms will be a season unlike any other in its 125-year history.
“Music can be a powerful friend in difficult times and Sir Henry Wood’s mission – to bring the best of classical music to the widest possible audience, ‘making its beneficent effect universal’ – is more important now than it has ever been. ”
The Proms will be fronted on TV by Katie Derham, Tom Service, Suzy Klein, Danielle de Niese and Josie d’Arby.
More than 350 musicians will be heard together, during the virtual Proms, in a Beethoven “mash-up” after recording their parts from home.
Its creator, composer Iain Farrington describes the work as “taking Beethoven’s music and putting it in a musical washing machine to see which colours run”.
Proms from the archive include the TV broadcast of the Radio 1 Ibiza Prom from 2015, featuring Pete Tong, Jules Buckley and the Heritage Orchestra.
The season will remain online on BBC Sounds and BBC iPlayer for 30 days after the Last Night on September 12. The full season can be found at bbc.co.uk/proms
Additonal reporting by Press Association
