05/05/26 - 05/05/26
Severance Music Center (The Cleveland Orchestra)
Severance Music Center (The Cleveland Orchestra)

Long considered one of America’s great orchestras, The Cleveland Orchestra stands today among the world’s most-revered symphonic ensembles. In concerts at home in University Circle's Severance Music Center, at Blossom Music Center, and on tour, The Cleveland Orchestra continues to... more
Thursday, May 7, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 8, 2026, at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 9, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Jörg Widmann, clarinet PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, “Classical” OLGA NEUWIRTH Zones of Blue* (US Premiere; TCO Co-commission) WAGNER Excerpts from Götterdämmerung The word “epic” could have been invented to describe the music of Götterdämmerung, the heaven-and-earth-shaking culmination of Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle, complete with vengeance, magic fire, and the redemptive power of love beyond death. Orchestral excerpts from this operatic thrill ride meld with the instantly charming neoclassicism of Prokofiev’s First Symphony and the US premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s Zones of Blue, a clarinet concerto performed by its dedicatee and longtime friend of The Cleveland Orchestra, Jörg Widmann.
May 23, 2026, 4:00PM - 6:00PM
The Cleveland Orchestra Children’s Choruses Spring Concert
Severance Music Center (The Cleveland Orchestra)
May 15, 2026, 7:00PM - 9:00PM
The World(s) of Terence Blanchard
Severance Music Center (The Cleveland Orchestra)
May 16, 2026 - May 24, 2026
Beethoven’s Fidelio
Severance Music Center (The Cleveland Orchestra)
May 17, 2026, 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Courage and Poetry: An Evening with Tank Ball
Severance Music Center (The Cleveland Orchestra)
May 19, 2026, 7:00PM - 9:00PM
The Moth Mainstage: Live from Severance
Severance Music Center (The Cleveland Orchestra)
June 03, 2026 - June 05, 2026
Matilda in Concert
Severance Music Center (The Cleveland Orchestra)
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