Thu 3/13 @ 7:30PM
Fri 3/14 @ 11AM
Sat 3/15 @ 8PM
As it prepares to pack up and head to Carnegie Hall in New York City for a performance on Tuesday March 18, the Cleveland Orchestra has announced some changes in its programming for this weekend, due to soprano Asmik Grigorian having to withdraw from the concerts.
On Thursday and Saturday at Severance Music Center, the orchestra will play Ludwig Von Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 and Leonore Overture No. 3 from his opera Fidelio, along with Czech composer Leoš Janáček’s From the House of the Dead. They will perform the same program at Carnegie Hall. Friday morning’s program at Severance will pair the Leonore Overture with Igor Stravinsky’s Pétrouchka. Music director Franz Welser-Möst conducts all the programs.
“This program change has given us a chance to say something important about our world today,” says Welser-Möst the the orchestra’s press release. “As people fight for freedom everywhere, these pieces tell that same human story. Beethoven’s Fifth shows us the journey from darkness to light. Janáček’s From the House of the Dead reveals how human dignity survives even in the most desolate of circumstances. And the Leonore Overture is, to me, simply the greatest music about freedom ever written. These works together create a profound statement that I believe will resonate deeply with our audiences in both Cleveland and New York.”
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