Cleveland

Wendel savors Rota’s wry lyricism and Yamada takes ownership of Saint-Saëns in Cleveland

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United StatesUnited States Summers at Severance 2026 [2] – Various: Brian Wendel (trombone), The Cleveland Orchestra / Kazuki Yamada (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 30.7.2026. (MSJ)

Kazuki Yamada conducts the Cleveland Orchestra © Julian Dubé/TCO

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Gomyo and Bychkov are stunning in a relocated Blossom Festival concert

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United StatesUnited States Blossom Music Festival 2026 [3] – Shostakovich, Brahms: Karen Gomyo (violin), Cleveland Orchestra / Semyon Bychkov (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 18.7.2026. (MSJ)

Semyon Bychkov directs the Cleveland Orchestra in Brahms’s Symphony No.4 © Roger Mastroianni/TCO

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A feast of color from Ohlsson and Bychkov in Cleveland

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United StatesUnited States Summers at Severance 2026 [1] – Various: Garrick Ohlsson (piano), The Cleveland Orchestra / Semyon Bychkov (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 16.7.2026. (MSJ)

Pianist Garrick Ohlsson with conductor Semyon Bychkov and the Cleveland Orchestra © Yevhen Gulenko/TCO

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Aspects of courage in four rare works at Cleveland’s Mandel Opera and Humanities Festival

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United StatesUnited States Various: Leila Josefowicz (violin), Trina Struble (harp), Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 22.5.2026. (MSJ)

Violinist Leila Josefowicz in Reinvere’s Concerto for Violin, Harp and Orchestra © Yevhen Gulenko/TCO

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A stirring Fidelio in concert at Cleveland’s Mandel Opera and Humanities Festival

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United StatesUnited States Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus (director: Lisa Wong), Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 15.5.2026. (MSJ)

[l-r] Tomasz Konieczny (Don Pizzaro), David Butt Philip (Florestan), Dashon Burton (Don Fernando), Sara Jakubiak (Leonore) and Raymond Aceto (Rocco). Seated: Owen McCausland (Jaquino) and Ashley Emerson (Marzelline) © Roger Mastroianni/TCO

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A catch-all concert in Cleveland ranges from genial to epic

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United StatesUnited States Prokofiev, Neuwirth, Wagner: Jörg Widmann (clarinet), Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 7.5.2026. (MSJ)

Jörg Widmann plays Neuwirth’s Zones of Blue with Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra © Yevhen Gulenko/TCO

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Jörg Widmann demonstrates vitality in his own music and also in a Mendelssohn symphony in Cleveland

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United StatesUnited States Wildmann, Mendelssohn: Cleveland Orchestra / Jörg Widmann (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 30.4.2026. (MSJ)

Jörg Widmann conducts Mendelssohn’s ‘Reformation’ Symphony with the Cleveland Orchestra © Roger Mastroianni/TCO

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