Thu 7/11 @ 7PM
For those who don’t like to fight the traffic at Blossom Music Center, not even for an orchestra concert (typically less congested than pop concerts), a couple of years ago The Cleveland Orchestra started a series called Summers at Severance, taking place at their winter home, Severance Music Center. And it’s back this year with three concerts, the first of which takes place this week.
The program is a veritable tour of Eastern European music. It includes Czech composer Leoš Janáček’s Suite from the opera The Cunning little Vixen; Russian Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme Of Paganini, featuring pianist Inon Barnatan; early 20th -century Ukrainian composer Borys Liatoshynsky’s Grazhyna; and Russian Igor Stravinsky’s Suite from The Firebird.
The orchestra will be led by 46-year-old Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv, since 2022 the first female music director of an Italian opera house, Teatro Comunale di Bologna. She was the first female conductor in the history of the legendary Bayreuth Wagner Festive with the 2021 production of The Flying Dutchman and she made her Metropolitan Opera debut early this year, leading its production of Turandot. She’s also the founder and chief conductor of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine/YsOU as a strong advocate for young Ukrainian musicians.
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