The Cleveland Orchestra recently announced its 101st season, which runs from September 2018 into June 2019.
Note: The schedule is subject to change. For information on any of the performances, the venue, tickets and more, visit clevelandorchestra.com.
TCHAIKOVSKY’S SWAN LAKE
Thursday, September 20, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, September 22, 2018, at 8:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Alexandre Tharaud, piano – Cleveland Orchestra debut
RATHBUN Pantheon — Cleveland Orchestra commission / World premiere
ABRAHAMSEN Left, alone (for piano left hand and orchestra) — U.S. premiere
TCHAIKOVSKY Suite from Swan Lake
BARTÓK AND PROKOFIEV
Thursday, September 27, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, September 30, 2018, at 3:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1 (“Classical Symphony”)
BARTÓK Piano Concerto No. 2
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 3
100th Anniversary Gala Concert
Saturday, September 29, 2018, at 7:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Lang Lang, piano
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 24
RICHARD STRAUSS Die Frau ohne Schatten Fantasy
JOHANN STRAUSS JR Wiener Blut, Waltz
RAVEL La Valse
MAHLER’S RESURRECTION
Thursday, October 4, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, October 5, 2018, at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 6, 2018, at 8:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Joélle Harvey, soprano
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
MAHLER Symphony No. 2 (“Resurrection”)
SCHEHERAZADE
Thursday, October 18, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, October 19, 2018, at 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 20, 2018, at 8:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor – Severance Hall debut
Mark Kosower, cello
BARBER Overture to The School for Scandal
GINASTERA Cello Concerto No. 2 — Cleveland Orchestra premiere
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade
Friday, October 19, 2018, at 11:00 a.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor – Severance Hall debut
BARBER Overture to The School for Scandal
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade
PELLÉAS AND MÉLISANDE
Thursday, October 25, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 27, 2018 at 8:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Ingo Metzmacher, conductor
Christian Tetzlaff, violin
WEBERN Passacaglia
BERG Violin Concerto
SCHOENBERG Pelléas und Mélisande
GERSTEIN PLAYS RACHMANINOFF
Thursday, November 1, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, November 2, 2018, at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 3, 2018, at 8:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Kirill Gerstein, piano
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3
BARTÓK The Wooden Prince (complete ballet music)
RAVEL’S BOLÉRO
Thursday, November 8, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 10, 2018, at 8:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Alain Altinoglu, conductor
Joshua Smith, flute
DEBUSSY Suite from Pelléas and Mélisande (arranged by Alain Altinoglu) — U.S. premiere
PINTSCHER Transir (for flute and orchestra) — U.S. premiere
RAVEL Rapsodie espagnole
RAVEL Pavane for a Dead Princess
RAVEL Boléro
Friday, November 9, 2018, at 11:00 a.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Alain Altinoglu, conductor
DEBUSSY Suite from Pelléas and Mélisande (arranged by Alain Altinoglu)
RAVEL Rapsodie espagnole
RAVEL Pavane for a Dead Princess
RAVEL Boléro
SHOSTAKOVICH’S FIFTH
Thursday, November 15, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 17, 2018, at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 18, 2018, at 3:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Jakub Hrůša, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano
KABELÁČ Mystery of Time — Cleveland Orchestra premiere
STRAVINSKY Capriccio (for piano and orchestra)
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
VIVALDI’S FOUR SEASONS
Friday, November 23, 2018, at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 24, 2018, at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 25, 2018, at 3:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
William Preucil, leader and violin
VIVALDI The Four Seasons
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 3 (“Rhenish”)
COPLAND’S APPALACHIAN SPRING
Thursday, November 29, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, November 30, 2018, at 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 1, 2018, at 8:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
John Adams, conductor
Leila Josefowicz, violin
Robert Walters, english horn
Michael Sachs, trumpet
ADAMS Short Ride in a Fast Machine
COPLAND Quiet City
COPLAND Suite from Appalachian Spring (1945 orchestration)
ADAMS Scheherazade.2 (for violin and orchestra) — Cleveland Orchestra premiere
HANDEL’S MESSIAH
Thursday, December 6, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, December 7, 2018, at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 8, 2018, at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, December 9, 2018, at 3:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Jane Glover, conductor
Lauren Snouffer, soprano
Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano
Paul Appleby, tenor – Cleveland Orchestra debut
Henry Waddington, bass-baritone – Cleveland Orchestra debut
Cleveland Orchestra Chamber Chorus
HANDEL Messiah
Holiday
Friday, December 14, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 2:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, December 16, 2018 at 2:30 p.m.
Thursday, December 20, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, December 21, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 22, 2018 at 2:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 22, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, December 23, 2018 at 2:30 p.m.
Sunday, December 23, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
Cleveland Orchestra Children’s Chorus
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus Chamber Ensemble
Richard Kaufman, conductor
PROGRAM To be announced at a later date
OPERA: STRAUSS’S ARIADNE
Sunday, January 13, 2019, at 4:00 p.m.
Thursday, January 17, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 19, 2019, at 8:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Frederic Wake-Walker, director – Cleveland Orchestra debut
Tamara Wilson, soprano (Ariadne/Diva) – Severance Hall debut
Andreas Schager, tenor (Bacchus/Tenor)
Daniela Fally, soprano (Zerbinetta) – Cleveland Orchestra debut
Kate Lindsey, mezzo-soprano (Composer)
RICHARD STRAUSS Ariadne Auf Naxos — Cleveland Orchestra premiere
Opera Presentation, sung in German with projected subtitles
STRAUSS AND MOZART
Friday, January 18, 2019, at 8:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
MOZART Divertimento No. 15 in B-flat major, K287
RICHARD STRAUSS Symphony for Winds: Fröhliche Werkstatt — Cleveland Orchestra premiere
OHLSSON PLAYS BUSONI
Thursday, February 7, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 8:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Men of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
HAYDN Symphony No. 100 (“Military”)
BUSONI Piano Concerto
ROMANTIC MOZART
Thursday, February 14, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, February 15, 2019, at 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 16, 2019, at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 17, 2019, at 3:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Harry Bicket, conductor
Kiera Duffy, soprano – Cleveland Orchestra debut
MOZART Fantasia: Piece for Mechanical Clock, K608
(arranged by Harry Bicket) — U.S. premiere
MOZART Exsultate, jubilate
MOZART Eine kleine Nachtmusik
MOZART Symphony No. 38 (“Prague”)
BEETHOVEN’S PASTORAL
Thursday, February 21, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, February 22, 2019, at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 23, 2019, at 8:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6 (“Pastoral”)
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3 (“Scottish”)
STRAVINSKY’S PETROUCHKA
Thursday, February 28, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 2, 2019, at 8:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
François-Xavier Roth, conductor – Cleveland Orchestra debut
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin – Cleveland Orchestra debut
DEBUSSY Rêve, from Première Suite d’Orchestre
(reconstructed by Philippe Manoury) — U.S. premiere
EÖTVÖS Seven (for violin and orchestra) — Cleveland Orchestra premiere
STRAVINSKY Petrushka (1947 revision)
TCHAIKOVSKY’S FIFTH
Thursday, March 14, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, March 15, 2019, at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 16, 2019, at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 17, 2019, at 3:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Paul Jacobs, organ
HAYDN Symphony No. 34 — Cleveland Orchestra premiere
BERND RICHARD DEUTSCH Okeanos (for organ and orchestra) — U.S. premiere
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5
STRAUSS’S A HERO’S LIFE
Thursday, March 21, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 23, 2019, at 8:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
WEBERN Six Pieces for Orchestra (1928 revision)
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 4 (“Tragic”)
RICHARD STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben
Friday, March 22, 2019, at 11:00 a.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
WEBERN Six Pieces for Orchestra (1928 revision)
RICHARD STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben
DEBUSSY & SCRIABIN
Thursday, April 25, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 27, 2019, at 8:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Stéphane Denève, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
HIGDON blue cathedral — Cleveland Orchestra premiere
MacMILLAN Piano Concerto No. 3 (“The Mysteries of Light”) — Cleveland Orchestra premiere
DEBUSSY Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
SCRIABIN The Poem of Ecstasy
Friday, April 26, 2019, at 11:00 a.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Stéphane Denève, conductor
HIGDON blue cathedral
DEBUSSY Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
SCRIABIN The Poem of Ecstasy
TCHAIKOVSKY’S VIOLIN CONCERTO
Thursday, May 2, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, May 3, 2019 at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 4, 2019, at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 5, 2019, at 3:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Michail Jurowski, conductor – U.S. Debut
Vadim Gluzman, violin
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 11 (“The Year 1905”)
SMETANA’S MÁ VLAST
Thursday, May 9, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 11, 2019, at 8:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov, conductor
Katia Labèque, piano
Marielle Labèque, piano
DETLEV GLANERT Distant Land: Music with Brahms — U.S. premiere
MARTINŮ Concerto for Two Pianos — Cleveland Orchestra premiere
SMETANA Three Selections from Má Vlast: Vyšehrad, The Moldau, Sárka
Friday, May 10, 2019, at 11:00 a.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov, conductor
Katia Labèque, piano
Marielle Labèque, piano
MARTINŮ Concerto for Two Pianos
SMETANA Three Selections from Má Vlast: Vyšehrad, The Moldau, Sárka
MITSUKO UCHIDA PLAYS BARTÓK
Thursday, May 16, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, May 17, 2019, at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 18, 2019, at 8:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
Martina Janková, soprano
Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano
Werner Güra, tenor – Cleveland Orchestra debut
Matthew Plenk, tenor
Dashon Burton, bass-baritone
Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
BARTÓK Piano Concerto No. 3
SCHUBERT Mass No. 6
Sunday, May 19, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.
Simon Keenlyside, baritone
to be announced, piano
Reinberger Chamber Hall at Severance Hall
SCHUBERT Die Winterreise
KEENLYSIDE SINGS SIBELIUS
Thursday, May 23, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 25, 2019, at 8:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Simon Keenlyside, baritone
GRIEG Suite from Peer Gynt
SIBELIUS Selected Songs
RICHARD STRAUSS Aus Italien
Friday, May 24, 2019, at 11:00 a.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
GRIEG Suite from Peer Gynt
RICHARD STRAUSS Aus Italien
MOVIE FEATURE: GERSHWIN’S AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Thursday, May 30, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, May 31, 2019, at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 1, 2019, at 8:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Brett Mitchell, conductor
GERSHWIN An American In Paris (film with orchestra)
Image credit: Roger Mastroianni
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