On June 12, Elza van den Heever continues her celebrated Strauss journey this season as she joins The Met Orchestra for a special all-Richard Strauss concert led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Building on the extraordinary acclaim she earned earlier this season for her roles as Salome and the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten at The Metropolitan Opera, Ms. van den Heever brings her steely and expressive voice to a selection of Strauss’s orchestral songs featured in the program.
The concert also includes the evocative Der Rosenkavalier suite, which captures the elegance and intrigue of 18th-century Vienna. The evening concludes with Strauss’s monumental tone poem Ein Heldenleben (“A Hero’s Life”), a richly autobiographical work that weaves in themes from many of Strauss’s compositions.