Scandal & Shiver

The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden crosses the Channel under the baton of its incoming artistic director Jakub Hrůša for a guest performance at the Elbphilharmonie. On the program: Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin Suite—once personally banned in the 1920s by Cologne’s deeply Catholic mayor Konrad Adenauer—and Dvořák’s hauntingly beautiful cantata The Spectre’s Bride.

22 September 2025, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg BARTÓK & DVOŘÁK
Pavel Černoch, tenor / Kateřina Kněžíková, soprano / Pavol Kuban, baritone / Jakub Hrůša, conductor / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House B. Bartók: Suite from “The Miraculous Mandarin”, Sz. 73 / A. Dvořák: The Spectre’s Bride, Cantata for soloists, choir, and orchestra, Op. 69