Pappano Conducts Puccini and Strauss
19:30
Tue 19 Aug 2025
Royal Albert Hall
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 LoÌpez Moreno stars as Puccini’s tragic Sister Angelica, whose past conceals a terrible secret.
Sir Antonio Pappano © Musacchio & Ianniello