Severance Music Center 2022-23 Classical Season
Tickets & subscriptions on sale now! Look forward to a thrilling new season of classical concerts in Mandel Concert Hall at Severance.
Premiere Packages Create Your Own- Holiday and Movie concerts are not included in subscription packages for the 2022-23 Classical Season.*
Concert Schedule
Mahler's Resurrection
Sep 29 & 30
Some pieces of music are so stirring, so electrifying that audiences are transfixed by their inherent emotional power.
Tickets & DetailsSaint-Saëns Organ Symphony
Oct 7 & 8
Severance’s Norton Memorial Organ shines in this journey from somber contemplation to radiant redemption, which provided a model for none other than Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony.
Tickets & DetailsBeethoven’s Eroica
Oct 13-16
When it premiered, Beethoven’s “Heroic” Symphony startled audiences with its length, originality, and the revolutionary way in which the composer pushed the limits of musical conventions without breaking them.
Tickets & DetailsAn Alpine Symphony
Oct 20 & 22
Richard Strauss's Alpine Symphony summons an orchestra of well over 100 musicians to depict the majesty of nature in spellbinding relief.
Tickets & DetailsGerstein Plays Schumann
Oct 27-29
Kirill Gerstein brings his profound intellect and dazzling virtuosity to Schumann’s rhapsodically romantic Piano Concerto.
Tickets & DetailsEl Niño
Nov 17-19
“John Adams's nativity oratorio is a winner, a very palpable hit — an intelligent, emotional and sometimes magical re-telling of the old, old story from a new perspective” (BBC).
Tickets & DetailsThe Firebird
Nov 25-27
Stravinsky’s Firebird set Paris aflame at its 1910 premiere, catapulting its composer to worldwide fame.
Tickets & DetailsElgar and Walton
Dec 1-3
Rising piano virtuoso Behzod Abduraimov leads Prokofiev’s notoriously demanding Second Piano Concerto.
Tickets & DetailsHoliday Concerts
Dec 8-18
*These concerts are not included in subscription packages for the 2022-23 Classical Season at Severance.
Home Alone
in Concert
Dec 14
*This concert is not included in subscription packages for the 2022-23 Classical Season at Severance.
Gilbert Conducts Nielsen and Haydn
Jan 5 & 7
The concert opens with principal timpani Paul Yancich as soloist in James Oliverio’s new Timpani Concerto, which was commissioned for him by The Cleveland Orchestra.
Tickets & DetailsFranz Welser-Möst Conducts Schubert
Jan 12-14
Through this fascinating juxtaposition, spanning more than a century, Schubert’s pioneering artistry and Berg’s latent romanticism are brought into illuminating relief.
Tickets & DetailsBoléro
Feb 2-5
It begins softly. A single snare drum. Then, a flute with a sensual melody. Gradually each instrument joins in, one after another, until the entire orchestra is playing in unison though the work’s final tremendous climax.
Tickets & DetailsMahler’s Fifth
Feb 9 & 11
Mahler called his Fifth Symphony a “foaming, roaring, raging sea of sound.” It begins simply enough, with a lone trumpet fanfare, but quickly explodes into one of music’s most passionate and thrilling symphonies.
Tickets & DetailsBeethoven’s Seventh
Feb 16-18
Beloved conductor Herbert Blomstedt returns to Cleveland for a program of Beethoven and Mozart favorites.
Tickets & DetailsMozart and Strauss
Feb 23-25
Franz Welser-Möst brings together a feast of musical delights from Central Europe’s rich symphonic history.
Tickets & DetailsMitsuko Uchida in Recital: Beethoven
Feb 26
One of the most revered artists of our time and a perennial favorite of Cleveland audiences, Mitsuko Uchida is known as a peerless interpreter of Beethoven.
Tickets & DetailsPictures at an Exhibition
Mar 2-5
The concert begins with a rediscovered masterpiece by pioneering 19th-century female composer Louise Farrenc. Concluding the program is a much-loved classic of the orchestra’s repertoire: Ravel’s opulent orchestration of Mussorgsky’s piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition.
Tickets & DetailsMozart's Requiem
Mar 9-12
Legends swirl around the creation of Mozart’s Requiem, written on his deathbed and left unfinished. We are nevertheless left with a work of overwhelming power — at once intensely dramatic and deeply personal — that touches the core of our humanity.
Tickets & DetailsWest Side Story
in Concert
Mar 17-19
*This concert is not included in subscription packages for the 2022-23 Classical Season at Severance.
Tickets & DetailsThe Tempest Symphony
Mar 30 & Apr 1
Shakespeare’s plays have provided a limitless source of inspiration, and this evening pairs two particularly evocative responses to his comedy The Tempest.
Tickets & DetailsShostakovich’s Fifth Symphony
Apr 6-8
Its unsettling opening movement captures the shifting, uncertain mood of the time, and leads to an exultant finale proclaiming that all is heroic, bright, and beautiful.
Tickets & DetailsMahler's Titan
Apr 13-16
Mahler wrote, “A symphony should be like the world, it should embrace everything,” and his first symphony is just that.
Tickets & DetailsAll Mozart
Apr 21-23
Bernard Labadie, one of today’s finest interpreters of the Classical era, joins the Orchestra and soloist Lucy Crowe to delve into the composer’s astounding genius in song and symphony.
Tickets & DetailsMarsalis
and New World
Apr 27-29
When describing his “New World” symphony, DvoĆák said, “I tried to write only in the spirit of those national American melodies,” but his Ninth is clearly an expression of both the Old World and the new.
Tickets & DetailsWeilerstein Plays Barber
May 4-6
Cleveland-born cellist Alisa Weilerstein joins Music Director Franz Welser-Möst to perform Barber’s “lyric and romantic” Cello Concerto, a piece praised for its “Brahms-like grandeur.”
Tickets & DetailsThe Girl of the Golden West
May 14-20
Puccini’s The Girl of the Golden West, the operatic equivalent of a spaghetti western, tells the tale of a love triangle between a sultry saloon owner, a carousing constable, and a disguised desperado.
Tickets & DetailsNew! Piano Recital Series
3 Concerts
New this season, a piano recital series featuring three world-renowned pianists, Mitsuko Uchida, Vìkingur Ólafsson, and Maria João Pires, arrives at Severance.
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