Strauss at the Proms

One hundred and fifty years after his birth, the music of Richard Strauss is reflected across 13 Proms. At the heart of the celebration will be three of his best-known operas, Der Rosenkavalier, Salome and Elektra, featuring some of the world’s leading Strauss interpreters including Nina Stemme and Christine Goerke.

Published: 24 April 2014

Strauss Opera at the Proms

Der Rosenkavalier (22 July)

  • Marschallin - Kate Royal
  • Octavian - Tara Erraught
  • Baron Ochs - Lars Woldt
  • Sophie - Teodora Gheorghiu
  • Herr von Faninal - Michael Kraus
  • Marianne Leitmetzerin - Miranda Keys
  • Valzacchi - Christopher Gillett
  • Annina - Helene Schneiderman
  • Notary - Gwynne Howell
  • Italian Singer - Andrej Dunaev
  • Innkeeper - Robert Wörle
  • Police Inspector = Scott Conner

Glyndebourne Festival Opera and London Philharmonic Orchestra/Robin Ticciati

Salome (30 August)

  • Herod Burkhard - Ulrich
  • Herodias - Ildikó Komlósi
  • Salome - Nina Stemme 
  • Jokanaan - Samuel Youn 
  • Narraboth - Thomas Blondelle 
  • Herodias’s Page - Ronnita Miller 
  • 1st Jew - Paul Kaufmann
  • 2nd Jew - Gideon Poppe 
  • 3rd Jew - Jörg Schörner 
  • 4th Jew - Clemens Bieber 
  • 5th Jew - Andrew Harris 
  • 1st Nazarene - Noel Bouley 
  • 2nd Nazarene - Carlton Ford
  • 1st Soldier - Ante Jerkunica 
  • 2nd Soldier - Tobias Kehrer 
  • Cappadocian - Seth Carico 

Deutsche Oper Berlin/Donald Runnicles

Elektra (31 August) 

  • Electra - Christine Goerke
  • Chrysothemis - Gun-Brit Barkmin
  • Clytemnestra - Dame Felicity Palmer
  • Aegisthus - Robert Künzli 
  • Orestes - Johan Reuter
  • 1st Maid - Katarina Bradic                        
  • 2nd Maid - Zoryana Kushpler                                             
  • 3rd Maid - Hanna Hipp            
  • 4th Maid - Marie-Eve Munger                  
  • 5th Maid - Iris Kupke
  • Overseer - Miranda Keys
  • Young Servant - Ivan Tursic
  • Orestes' Tutor - Jongmin Park

BBC Singers/BBC Symphony Orchestra/Semyon Bychkov

Strauss choral, orchestral and chamber works at the Proms

Die Frau ohne Schatten – symphonic fantasia

  • World Orchestra for Peace/Valery Gergiev (20 July)

Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

  • Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich/David Zinman (21 July)

Deutsche Motette / Festival Prelude / Four Last Songs

  • Inger Dam-Jensen soprano
  • BBC Singers and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko (31 July)

Suite in B flat major for 13 wind instruments

  • London Winds/Michael Collins (PCM, 4 August)

Burleske / Tod und Verklärung

  • BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Thomas Søndergård (11 August)

Ein Heldenleben

  • BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Markus Stenz (15 August)

Eight Poems from ‘Letzte Blätter’ / Four Songs, Op. 27 – Nos. 1, 3 & 4

  • Alice Coote mezzo-soprano and Julius Drake piano (PCM, 18 August)

Don Juan 

  • Melbourne Symphony Orchestra/Sir Andrew Davis (19 August)

Metamorphosen (version for septet arr. R. Leopold)

  • Katarzyna Budnik-Gałązka viola
  • Marcin Zdunik cello
  • Tomasz Januchta double bass
  • Royal String Quartet (PCM, 25 August) 

Taillefer

  • BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra/Sakari Oramo (13 September)