The Met Orchestra Plays Strauss

Live at the BBC Proms: The Met Orchestra with Yannick Nézet-Séguin performs an all-Strauss programme, including the final scene of Salome with Elza van den Heever

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall

Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier – suite (arr. attrib. A. Rodziński)
Richard Strauss: Salome (final scene)

c.7.45pm
Interval: Martin Handley is joined by writer and musicologist Nigel Simeone to discuss the heritage of one of the world's great opera orchestras and the rich creative world of Richard Strauss.

c.8.05pm
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

Elza van den Heever (soprano)
The Met Orchestra
Yannick Nézet‐Séguin (conductor)

A long-awaited Proms debut for the Metropolitan Opera’s Met Orchestra – praised for its ‘white-hot musical drama’ – under Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. A sumptuous all-Strauss programme includes a suite from Der Rosenkavalier – a ravishing homage to Vienna’s golden age – as well as the autobiographical drama of Ein Heldenleben – a striving, battling ‘Hero’s Life’ brought to vivid orchestral life. Celebrated South African soprano Elza van den Heever joins the orchestra for the final scene of the composer’s Salome – a searing centrepiece for one of the world’s great opera orchestras.