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Carnegie Hall Presents
The Met Orchestra
Thursday, June 12, 2025
8 PM
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Yannick Nézet-Séguin by Paola Kudacki, Elza van den Heever by Jiyang Chen
Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads The Met Orchestra in an enticing all–Richard Strauss program, featuring the spectacular soprano Elza van den Heever in selected songs. The passionate orchestral suite from Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier opera evokes the romance and intrigues of 18th-century Vienna, while the autobiographical Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life) includes quotes from dozens of Strauss’s compositions and casts the composer himself as the titular hero. Imagine the surprise of critics who—already aghast at Strauss’s boldness—discovered themselves in movement two: “The Hero’s Adversaries.”
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Performers
The Met Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Music Director and Conductor
Elza van den Heever, Soprano
Program
ALL-R. STRAUSS PROGRAMDer Rosenkavalier Suite
Selected Orchestral Songs
Ein Heldenleben