Cleveland Orchestra Announces 103rd Season

CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Orchestra have announced their schedule for the 2020-2021 season at Severance Hall. There will be 26 weeks of concerts, running from Sept. 2020 to May 2021.

Franz Welser-Möst will lead the orchestra as music director for his 19th season. The new season will begin with Welser-Möst's exploration of well-known and less frequently played works by Prokofiev and Schubert and will conclude with a spring festival devoted to ideas about outsiders in art and society. The festival is centered around a performance of Verdi's opera Otello in May 2021.

“The announcement of each new season is made with great excitement, after years of planning and preparation,” said André Gremillet, president and CEO of Cleveland Orchestra. “Announcing in this time of uncertainty is doubly important. Despite the realities that the coronavirus pandemic has created today, we know that concert life around the world will reawaken and continue, and it is vital that we proceed with our plans to welcome audiences to future performances and seasons."

More information on the Cleveland Orchestra's 2020-2021 season can be found on the group's website.

"Music and the arts offer hope, comfort, and focus for everyone going forward. Franz Welser-Möst and all of us within the Cleveland Orchestra community are dedicated to not just helping to contain and control the virus, but to being ready and able to resume everyday life with the joys and pleasures that include live concert performances. The resilience of the arts community will stand as a reflection of human creativity and compassion — and a clear signal of solidarity among artists and audience alike," Gremillet said.