By Paul Hindemith.

The iconoclastic director Peter Sellars and the conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen collaborate on this new production of Hindemith's operatic masterpiece. Hero Matthias Grunewald, a 16th-century German painter, faces up to an artist's responsibility amid political turmoil - mirroring Hindemith's own situation when he wrote this work in Hitler's Germany of the 1930s.
Introduced by Andrew Lyle.

Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

Prelude and Tableaux 1-3

8.25 Interval
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Peter Sellars about his production of Hindemith's opera.

8.45 Tableaux 4 and 5

9.30 Interval

9.40 Tableaux 6 and 7

Performance sponsored by the Foundation for Sport and the Arts