Symphony Concert N° 12

Scenes of hunting and fighting

For his debut concert with the Staatskapelle, Jakub Hrůša will conduct symphonic poems based on literary works by Gottfried August Bürger and Nikolai Gogol. Franck’s rarely heard »Le Chasseur maudit« (The Accursed Huntsman) and the Ukrainian saga of the Cos­sack Taras Bulba, transformed by Janáček into a powerful rhapsody, will frame Sibelius’s late romantic Violin Concerto, performed by the outstanding violinist Joshua Bell in a return appearance to the Semperoper after 29 years.

A concert introduction is given 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the opera cellar.