Summer-Festival: Budapest Festival Orchestra
Overview
Intro
Budapest Festival Orchestra | Eva Duda Dance Company | Iván Fischer | Elisabeth Leonskaja | Schubert | Mozart | Bartók
Béla Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin captures the raw, gritty pulse of the modern metropolis. The action unfolds in a seedy den where a young woman lures passersby inside. But instead of finding the pleasure they came for, they are quickly overpowered and robbed by her accomplices - until a mysterious stranger, the Mandarin, falls into the trap . . . The world premiere in 1926 caused such an uproar in Catholic Cologne that the mayor - none other than the future German chancellor Konrad Adenauer - banned the work outright. Bartók then prepared a concert version, though he was never happy with it. “This work is a pantomime with music; both elements should be performed together,” he wrote in the score. Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra take him at his word: together with the Eva Duda Dance Company, they bring the Mandarin vividly to life onstage. The evening opens with Schubert’s darkly compelling Symphony in B minor, the Unfinished. After which Elisabeth Leonskaja will perform Mozart. She celebrated her 80th birthday last November, yet her interpretations today are more sophisticated and refined than ever.
Performers:
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Eva Duda Dance Company
Iván Fischer, conductor
Elisabeth Leonskaja, piano
Program:
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Symphony No. 7 in B minor, D 759 Unfinished
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756–1791)
Piano Concerto in C minor, K. 491
Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
The Miraculous Mandarin, Sz 73. Pantomime in one act
Intermission at c. 20.35
| Contact address |
Lucerne Festival
Hirschmattstrasse 13 6003 Luzern +41 (0)41 226 44 00 info@lucernefestival.ch +41 (0)41 226 44 60 |
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| Location |
KKL Luzern Konzertsaal Europaplatz 1 6005 Luzern Switzerland |
| Event Homepage | https://www.lucernefestival.ch/de/programm/budapest-festival-orchestra-eva-duda-dance-company-ivan-fischer-elisabeth-leonskaja/2373 |
| Price |
CHF 240.00 | 200.00 | 150.00 | 100.00 | 60.00 | 30.00
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Event dates
- 21 August 2026
Tickets from 24.3. | 10 am (CET)