Strauss & Shostakovich

Strauss & Shostakovich

Severance Music Center

Friday, September 18, 2026

Franz Welser-Möst opens his 25th and final season as Music Director of The Cleveland Orchestra with two 20th-century masterpieces. South African soprano Golda Schultz lends her radiant voice to Richard Strauss’s staggeringly beautiful Four Last Songs, while Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony moves from despair to resilience.

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