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URL:https://coolcleveland.com/events/cleveland-orchestras-mandel-opera-hum
 anities-festival-tackles-the-topic-of-reconciliation/
SUMMARY:Cleveland Orchestra's Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival Tackles th
 e Topic of "Reconciliation"
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 Michelle Cann[/caption]\nFri 5/16-Sun 5/25\nThe Cleveland Orchestra’s Ma
 ndel Opera &amp\; Humanities Festival\, an annual spring event founded in 
 2023\, is back\, with a plethora of special programming at Severance Music
  Center and partner venues across the area\, including film screenings\, d
 iscussions\, forums\, art exhibits and performances. This year’s theme i
 s Reconciliation.\nThe centerpiece opera this year is Leoš Janáček’s 
 Jenůfa\, with performances May17\, 22 and 25\, conducted by the orchestra
 ’s music director Franz Welser-Möst and featuring vocalist Latonia Moor
 e and Nina Stemme. It’s a complicated story that involves all the good s
 tuff of opera: tangled relationships\, deception\, rage\, betrayal\, reven
 ge\, infanticide\, and ultimately\, reconciliation.\nIt kicks off on Frida
 y May 16 with a morning symposium on immigration and reconciliation at Se
 verance Music Center in collaboration with CCWA and Global Cleveland. That
  evening at Severance\, five storytellers will share their stories in The 
 Moth Mainstage. The next nine days are packed with events. Standouts inclu
 de Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés  and his band the Royal Quartet at Severa
 nce Hall Sunday May 18\, co-presented with Tri-C JazzFest and a solo perfo
 rmance on Monday May 19 by pianist Michelle Cann (also at Severance Hall)\
 , honoring Chicago’s Black Renaissance with music by groundbreaking Blac
 k women composers\, punctuated with Cann’s storytelling.\nGet informatio
 n about all the festival events here.\nmandel-festival-25/\n[mappress mapi
 d="383"]
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