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The Cleveland Orchestra Adds Additional Performances to Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival

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The Cleveland Orchestra has announced additional programming for its 2026 Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival. David Butt Philip and Adrienne Danrich join Festival Curator Terence Blanchard for “Opera Now: Tradition, Innovation, and the Road Ahead,” a forum at The City Club of Cleveland on the future of the art form. André Gremillet moderates. Performance Date: May {…}
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Golda Schultz, Sara Jakubiak, David Butt Philip, Jennifer Johnson Cano Headline The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2026-27 Season

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(Credit: Yevhen Gulenko) The Cleveland Orchestra has announced its 2026-27 season at Severance Music Center, the 25th and final year of its partnership with Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. Welser-Möst opens his final season on September 17 and 20 with Richard Strauss’s “Four Last Songs,” featuring soprano Golda Schultz alongside Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8. Performance Dates: Sept. 17 & 20, 2026 {…}
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The Cleveland Orchestra Unveils 2026 Summer Season

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The Cleveland Orchestra announces its 2026 summer season. Here is a look at the vocal events. Tenor Limmie Pulliam performs music by Gershwin, Copland, Bernstein, and other leading American voices. Edwin Outwater leads The Cleveland Orchestra. Performance Date: July 3, 2026 Soprano Latonia Moore, tenor Brandon Jovanovich, and the Blossom Festival Chorus present “A Night at the Opera” led by {…}
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Terrence Blanchard, Malin Byström, David Butt Philip, Tomasz Konieczny Among Headliners of The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2026 Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival

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(Photo credit: Kevin Libal) The Cleveland Orchestra has announced the fourth edition of its annual Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival, running May 15–24, 2026. The 2026 festival explores the theme of “Courage,” with trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard serving as Festival Curator. Here are the opera and vocal performances on offer. The festival opens with “The {…}
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The Cleveland Orchestra Announces New Gift from Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund

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The Cleveland Orchestra has announced a major expansion of its education initiatives supported by a new gift from the Eric and Jane Nord Family Fund. The gift will establish the Jane B. and Eric T. Nord Education Leadership and Internship Endowed Fund,  which aims to strengthens the Orchestra’s education leadership team and endows the Jane B. and Eric T. Nord {…}
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The Cleveland Orchestra Announces New Chair of Board of Trustees

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The Cleveland Orchestra has announced the election of Richard J. Kramer, former Chairman, CEO, and President of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, as Chair of its Board of Trustees. As Chair, Kramer, who has been a member of the Orchestra’s Board since 2018 and has served as Vice Chair since 2023, will collaborate with the Board’s officers, Executive Committee, {…}
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The Cleveland Orchestra Announces Major Honors for Outgoing Board Chair

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The Cleveland Orchestra is set to honor Richard K. Smucker, Chairman Emeritus of The J.M. Smucker Company, as he concludes his tenure as Chairman of the Orchestra’s Board of Trustees. Smucker, a trustee since 1989 who was elected to the Board Chair in 2017, will receive the Orchestra’s Distinguished Service Award during the Oct. 9 concert at the Severance Music {…}
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The Cleveland Orchestra Announces Artistic Appointments for 2025–26 Season

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(Photo credits: Gao, Ealovega, & Washburn) Taichi Fukumura, James Feddeck, and Tyler Taylor have joined The Cleveland Orchestra for the 2025-26 season. The role of Assistant Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra is filled by Fukumura. With The Cleveland Orchestra, Fukumura will support Music Director Franz Welser-Möst and other guest conductors by serving as cover conductor, in addition to leading various {…}
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Limmie Pulliam, Asmik Grigorian, Liv Redpath, Malin Byström, Christian Gerhaher Headline The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2025-26 Season

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The Cleveland Orchestra has unveiled its 2025-26 season at Severance Music Center. Here is a rundown of the vocal performances on offer. Franz Welser Möst conducts a program of works by Strauss, Ravel, and Bern Richard Deutsch’s “Urworte” with The Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus. Performance Dates: Sept. 26 – 28, 2025 Limmie Pulliam and Iurii Samoilov are the soloists for {…}

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