Main content
This programme will be available shortly after broadcast

The Met Orchestra Plays Strauss

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

Live at the ĢƵ 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

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.

Release date:

2 hours, 59 minutes

On radio

Wed 26 Aug 2026 19:00

Broadcast

  • Wed 26 Aug 2026 19:00