The Miraculous Mandarin (; ) Op. 19,
Sz. 73 (BB 82), is a one act pantomime
ballet composed by
Béla Bartók between 1918–1924, and based on the story by
Melchior Lengyel. Premiered November 27, 1926 in
Cologne, Germany, it caused a scandal and was subsequently banned on moral grounds. Although more successful at its
Prague premiere, it was generally performed during the rest of Bartók's life in the form of a concert suite, which preserves about two-thirds of the original ballet's music.