Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Beethoven's only opera, a dramatic hymn to freedom, liberty and human loyalty, comes to the Proms tonight. The heroic story of a woman who risks all to save her wrongly imprisoned husband is presented in an imaginative semi-staged production based on Deborah Warner's production for Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Introduced by Paul Guinery.

Glyndebourne Chorus, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Simon Rattle

Act 1

8.50 Twenty Minutes: Performing Art
Christopher Cook looks at some of the treasures of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, that reflect this year's Proms themes. This week, with Eric Turner, he examines modernist tableware designed by Josef Hoffman in the early 1900s for the Wiener Werkstatte.

9.10 Act 2