Pappano Conducts Puccini and Strauss

Live at the BBC Proms: the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Antonio Pappano in Strauss and with soprano Carolina López Moreno in Puccini's Suor Angelica.

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Richard Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten – Symphonic Fantasy

c.7.55pm interval
The writer and musicologist Flora Willson joins Sara to pick her Proms highlights for the week ahead

c.8.15pm
Giacomo Puccini: Suor Angelica

Carolina López Moreno.... Sister Angelica
Kseniia Nikolaieva... Princess
Elena Zilio.... Monitress
Angela Schisano.... Mistress of the novices
Sarah Dufresne.... Sister Genovieffa
Monika-Evelin Liiv.... Abbess
Tiffin Choir
London Symphony Chorus

London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor)

Two of the 20th-century’s most powerful operas come together in a concert by Sir Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra. Motherhood – longed-for or feared, inevitable or impossible – is the thread binding the devastating melodrama of Puccini’s one-act Suor Angelica to Strauss’s darkly ambiguous fable Die Frau ohne Schatten (‘The Woman without a Shadow’) each a battle for humanity and its future. Soprano Carolina López Moreno stars as Puccini’s tragic Sister Angelica, whose past conceals a terrible secret.