The Cleveland Orchestra: Franz Welser-Most - Stravinsky & Sibelius

The Cleveland Orchestra: Franz Welser-Most - Stravinsky & Sibelius at Severance Music Center

Stravinsky can make an orchestra jump; Sibelius can make it feel like a landscape opening up. Put those musical worlds together under Franz Welser-Möst and you've got an evening built on contrast, movement, and discovery.

Myth and music meet head-on in Cleveland on May 6, 2027, when Franz Welser-Möst leads The Cleveland Orchestra in Stravinsky & Sibelius at Severance Music Center. This is the kind of program that rewards listeners who want more than a routine symphonic evening. Stravinsky’s Orpheus turns an ancient story into something lucid and finely shaped, while Sibelius’s Four Legends from the Kalevala draws power from Finland’s national epic and its haunting sense of transformation. Together, they promise a concert built on atmosphere, tension, and orchestral color.

Welser-Möst makes the occasion feel even sharper. The 2026–27 season marks his 25th and final season as Music Director of The Cleveland Orchestra, a milestone that gives this performance real weight for Cleveland concertgoers who have followed his long partnership with the ensemble. Classical music fans who appreciate program design will notice how carefully this pairing is framed: one composer’s mythic restraint, another’s sweeping legend, both filtered through the sound of a world-class orchestra. Severance Music Center gives that detail room to bloom, from the hush of a soft entrance to the surge of a full orchestral line.

Hear Stravinsky and Sibelius come alive at Severance. See The Cleveland Orchestra: Franz Welser-Most - Stravinsky & Sibelius ticket options.