A two-week calendar is published every Monday. Dates with no scheduled events are not listed.
JULY 16 – TUESDAY
2:00 pm – Ohio Light Opera, Sound of Music. Music by Richard Rodgers Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Freedlander Theatre, 329 East University Street, Wooster. Tickets available online.
JULY 17 – WEDNESDAY
12:15 pm – Wednesday Noon Organ Concert by Robert Myers. “Going neo-Baroque”: music by Paul Hindemith, Hermann Schroeder, Flor Peeters, Helmut Walcha, and Wilbur Held Beckerath organ. Trinity Lutheran Church, W. 30th & Lorain, Cleveland. Freewill offering.
2:00 pm – Ohio Light Opera, Me and My Girl. Music by Noel Gay Book and Lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose. Freedlander Theatre, 329 East University Street, Wooster. Tickets available online.
7:30 pm – CMA City Stages: Wesli (Canada/Haiti). Transformer Station, 1460 W 29th St, Cleveland. Free.
7:30 pm – Kent/Blossom Faculty Concert: William Hagen, violin, Stephen Tavani, violin, Afendi Yusuf, clarinet and friends from The Cleveland Orchestra. Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet & Schubert’s Octet. Ludwig Recital Hall, Kent State University, 1325 Theatre Drive, Kent.
7:30 pm – Apollo’s Fire: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons rediscovered. The Four Seasons plus 17th-century songs about Nature by Henry Purcell and Thomas Morley with soprano Andréa Walker. Light food and drink is available for purchase. Holden Arboretum, 9550 Sperry Rd, Kirtland. Tickets available online.
8:00 pm – Classical Revolution at the Happy Dog. The night will feature some of the area’s most talented classical musicians. The Happy Dog 5801 Detroit Ave., Cleveland. Free.
JULY 18 – THURSDAY
2:00 pm – Ohio Light Opera, The Arcadians. Music by Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot, Lyrics by Arthur Wimperis. Freedlander Theatre, 329 East University Street, Wooster. Tickets available online.
6:30 pm – Canton Symphony, Summer Serenades. Woodwind Quintet at Quail Hollow Park. 13480 Congress Lake Ave N.E., Hartville. Free
7:00 pm – Third Thursday at Transformer Station: Bill O’Connell and Opus 216. 1460 W 29th St, Cleveland. Free.
7:00 pm – Piano Cleveland. 2021 Mixon First Prize winner, Martín García García. Fresh off a worldwide tour of performances and top prizes at the Chopin Competition, Martín García García returns to Cleveland to usher in a new edition of the CIPC. Heights Theater 2781 Euclid Heights Blvd., Cleveland Heights. free but reservations are required.
7:30 pm – Apollo’s Fire: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons rediscovered. The Four Seasons plus 17th-century songs about Nature by Henry Purcell and Thomas Morley with soprano Andréa Walker. Light food and drink is available for purchase. Holden Arboretum, 9550 Sperry Rd, Kirtland. Tickets available online.
JULY 19 – FRIDAY
12:15 pm – Lunchtime Carillon Concert and Live Stream. Keiran Cantilina, Carillonneur. Music by Don Henley (The Eagles), Frédéric Chopin, Isaac Albéniz, Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher, Claude Debussy, Freddie Mercury (Queen), and traditional tunes. The McGaffin Carillon, 11205 Euclid Ave, Cleveland. Free and free parking. Click here for livestream.
2:00 pm – Ohio Light Opera, Count of Luxembourg. Music by Franz Lehár Original German Libretto by Alfred Willner and Robert Bodanzky English Translation by Steven A. Daigle. Freedlander Theatre, 329 East University Street, Wooster. Tickets available online.
2:00 pm – Kent Blossom Music Festival Young Artist. Ludwig Recital Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Kent State University 1325 Theatre Dr., Kent. Free.
6:30 pm – Piano Cleveland Live. An outdoor concert featuring 2021 CIPC First Prize Medalist, Martín García García and jazz musicians. Van Aken District. Free
7:00 pm – Friends of the McGaffin Carillon in University Circle. Friday Evening Carillon Concert and Live Stream Keiran Cantilina, Carillonneur. Pre-concert talk at 6:15. Music by Don Henley (The Eagles), Frédéric Chopin, Isaac Albéniz, Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher, Claude Debussy, Richard and Robert Sherman, arr. Richard Giszczak, Freddie Mercury (Queen), Gene Wilder, and traditional tunes. The McGaffin Carillon, 11205 Euclid Ave, Cleveland. Free and free parking. Click here for more information.
7:00 pm – Wizards of Acoustic Guitar. Champion Fingerstyle guitarists Brian Henke and Shohei Toyoda perform their own compositions, Chet Adkins classics, with some blues and jazz. Unity Spiritual Center, 23855 Detroit Rd., Westlake. Tickets available online.
7:30 pm – Ohio Light Opera, The Gondoliers. Music by Arthur Sullivan Libretto by William Gilbert. Freedlander Theatre, 329 East University Street, Wooster. Tickets available online.
7:30 pm – Kent Blossom Music Festival Young Artists. Ludwig Recital Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Kent State University 1325 Theatre Dr., Kent. Free.
JULY 20 – SATURDAY
2:00 pm – Ohio Light Opera, Sound of Music. Music by Richard Rodgers Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Freedlander Theatre, 329 East University Street, Wooster. Tickets available online.
2:00 pm – Kent Blossom Music Festival Young Artists. Hudson Meadows Retirement Community 1275 Barlow Rd., Hudson, Free.
4:00 pm – Apollo’s Fire: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons rediscovered. The Four Seasons plus 17th-century songs about Nature by Henry Purcell and Thomas Morley with soprano Andréa Walker. Light food and drink is available for purchase. Holden Arboretum, 9550 Sperry Rd, Kirtland. Tickets available online.
7:00 pm – The Cleveland Orchestra: Antonello Manacorda, conductor and Véronique Gens, soprano. Mendelssohn’s Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7.Blossom Music Center, 1145 W Steels Corners Rd, Cuyahoga Falls. Tickets available online.
7:30 pm – Ohio Light Opera, Guys and Dolls. Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser. Freedlander Theatre, 329 East University Street, Wooster. Tickets available online.
7:30 pm – Apollo’s Fire: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons rediscovered. The Four Seasons plus 17th-century songs about Nature by Henry Purcell and Thomas Morley with soprano Andréa Walker. Light food and drink is available for purchase. Holden Arboretum, 9550 Sperry Rd, Kirtland. Tickets available online.
JULY 21 – SUNDAY
2:00 pm – Ohio Light Opera, The Arcadians. Music by Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot, Lyrics by Arthur Wimperis. Freedlander Theatre, 329 East University Street, Wooster. Tickets available online.
2:00 pm – Kent Blossom Music Festival Young Artists. Ludwig Recital HallCenter for the Performing Arts, Kent State University 1325 Theatre Dr., Kent. Free.
3:00 pm – Apollo’s Fire: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons rediscovered. The Four Seasons plus 17th-century songs about Nature by Henry Purcell and Thomas Morley with soprano Andréa Walker. Light food and drink is available for purchase. Holden Arboretum, 9550 Sperry Rd, Kirtland. Tickets available online.
3:00 pm – CIPC Concert Truck, featuring the 2024 CIPC Quarter-Finalists. Bring a lawn chair, sunscreen, and be ready for a good time! Playhouse Square. Free
7:00 pm – The Cleveland Orchestra: Edwin Outwater, conductor and Leslie Odom, Jr., vocals. Blossom Music Center, 1145 W Steels Corners Rd, Cuyahoga Falls. Tickets available online.
7:30 pm – Kent Blossom Music Festival Young Artists. Ludwig Recital Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Kent State University 1325 Theatre Dr., Kent. Free.
7:30 pm – Oberlin Piano Festival Faculty Recital. Robert Shannon & Haewon Song perform Slavic Dances by Dvorak, Sinfonietta, Op. 49 by Kapustin, Concertino, Op. 94 by Shostakovich, The Swan by Saint-Saens, Sheep May safely graze by J.S. Bach, and Cuban overture by Gershwin. Clonick Hall, Bertram and Judith Kohl Building 77 West College Street, Oberlin. Free.
JULY 22 – MONDAY
TBD – CIPC Concert Truck, featuring the 2024 CIPC Quarter-Finalists. Bring a lawn chair, sunscreen, and be ready for a good time!King Kennedy Club – Boys & Girls Club. Free
5:00 pm – CIPC Concert Truck, featuring the 2024 CIPC Quarter-Finalists. Bring a lawn chair, sunscreen, and be ready for a good time! Cleveland Guardians Game. Free. — Inside the Progressive Field Piano Cleveland takes the mound with a piano-inspired night featuring Yaron Kohlberg throwing out the first pitch and playing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” on a piano. Tickets include food and drink in the new right field Pennant District. Tickets available online.
JULY 23 – TUESDAY
12:00 pm – CIPC Concert Truck, featuring the 2024 CIPC Quarter-Finalists. Bring a lawn chair, sunscreen, and be ready for a good time! Edgewater Beach. Free
2:00 pm – Ohio Light Opera, The Arcadians. Music by Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot, Lyrics by Arthur Wimperis. Freedlander Theatre, 329 East University Street, Wooster. Tickets available online.
6:00 pm – CIPC Concert Truck, featuring the 2024 CIPC Quarter-Finalists. Bring a lawn chair, sunscreen, and be ready for a good time! Cleveland Public Library Mobile ArtBox. Free
7:30 pm – Oberlin Piano Festival Guest Faculty Recital. Zhou Ting and Tianying Zhao perform Mozart’s Piano Sonata K. 457, Liszt’s Après une lecture du Dante Chopin’s Rondeau for 2 Pianos in C, and Brahms’ Variations on a theme by Haydn, Op. 56b. Clonick Hall, Bertram and Judith Kohl Building 77 West College Street, Oberlin. Free.
JULY 24 – WEDNESDAY
12:15 pm – Wednesday Noon Organ Concert by Robert Myers. “Going neo-Baroque”: music by Paul Hindemith, Hermann Schroeder, Flor Peeters, Helmut Walcha, and Wilbur Held Beckerath organ. Trinity Lutheran Church, W. 30th & Lorain, Cleveland. Freewill offering.
2:00 pm – Ohio Light Opera, Count of Luxembourg. Music by Franz Lehár Original German Libretto by Alfred Willner and Robert Bodanzky English Translation by Steven A. Daigle. Freedlander Theatre, 329 East University Street, Wooster. Tickets available online.
5:30 pm – CIPC Concert Truck, featuring the 2024 CIPC Quarter-Finalists. Bring a lawn chair, sunscreen, and be ready for a good time! Wade Oval Wednesday. Free
7:30 pm – Ohio Light Opera, The Gondoliers. Music by Arthur Sullivan Libretto by William Gilbert. Freedlander Theatre, 329 East University Street, Wooster. Tickets available online.
JULY 25 – THURSDAY
2:00 pm – Ohio Light Opera, Me and My Girl. Music by Noel Gay Book and Lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose Freedlander Theatre, 329 East University Street, Wooster. Tickets available online.
6:30 pm – Canton Symphony, Summer Serenades. String Quartet at Beech Creek Botanical Garden. 11929 Beech Street N.E., Alliance. Free
:00 p.m. – Cleveland Orchestra Summers at Severance. Petr Popelka, conducting, James Ehnes, violin. César Franck’s Le Chasseur maudit, Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Violin Concerto, & Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 6. Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, 11001 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. Tickets available online.
7:30 pm – Ohio Light Opera, Guys and Dolls. Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser. Freedlander Theatre, 329 East University Street, Wooster. Tickets available online.
JULY 26 – FRIDAY
12:00 pm – CIPC Concert Truck, featuring the 2024 CIPC Quarter-Finalists. Bring a lawn chair, sunscreen, and be ready for a good time! Cleveland City Hall. Free
2:00 pm – Ohio Light Opera, Sound of Music. Music by Richard Rodgers Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Freedlander Theatre, 329 East University Street, Wooster. Tickets available online.
7:30 pm – Ohio Light Opera, The Arcadians. Music by Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot, Lyrics by Arthur Wimperis. Freedlander Theatre, 329 East University Street, Wooster. Tickets available online.
7:30 pm – Apollo’s Fire: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons rediscovered. The Four Seasons plus tempestuous Italian arias with soprano Amanda Forsythe. Light food and drink is available for purchase. Avon Lake United Church of Christ 32801 Electric Blvd, Avon Lake. Tickets available online.
7:30 pm – For All the Queens. Directed by Gregory Ristow, an octet of singers of Cleveland Chamber Choir will present an exclusive performance for the North American British Music Studies Association Conference. The program celebrates the reigning queens of England with pieces from Henry Purcell’s Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary to Britten’s Choral Dances from Gloriana to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. Kulas Recital Hall,Oberlin Conservatory, 77 West College St.,Oberlin. Free but reservations required.
JULY 27 – SATURDAY
10:00 am – CIPC Concert Truck, featuring the 2024 CIPC Quarter-Finalists. Bring a lawn chair, sunscreen, and be ready for a good time! North Union Farmer’s Market, Shaker Square. Free
2:00 pm – Ohio Light Opera, The Gondoliers. Music by Arthur Sullivan Libretto by William Gilbert. Freedlander Theatre, 329 East University Street, Wooster. Tickets available online.
7:00 pm – The Cleveland Orchestra and the Kent Blossom Chamber Orchestra: Hannu Lintu, conductor, Mark Kosower, cello. Sibelius’ Lemminkäinen’s Return, Walton’s Cello Concerto, and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. Blossom Music Center, 1145 W Steels Corners Rd, Cuyahoga Falls. Tickets available online.
7:30 pm – Ohio Light Opera, Count of Luxembourg. Music by Franz Lehár Original German Libretto by Alfred Willner and Robert Bodanzky English Translation by Steven A. Daigle. Freedlander Theatre, 329 East University Street, Wooster. Tickets available online.
JULY 28 – SUNDAY
2:00 pm – Ohio Light Opera, Guys and Dolls. Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser. Freedlander Theatre, 329 East University Street, Wooster. Tickets available online.
6:00 pm – Grand Piano Playoff. The sixteen Quarter-Finalists for the 2024 Cleveland International Piano Competition perform transcriptions of 80s and 90s pop songs. Hanna Theater, 2067 E 14th St., Cleveland. Tickets available online.
7:30 pm Akron Symphony Summer Concert Series. Forest Lodge Park 1586 Jefferson Ave., Akron. Free
7:30 pm – Oberlin Piano Festival Faculty Recital. Carl Cranmer, program to be announced. Clonick Hall, Bertram and Judith Kohl Building 77 West College Street, Oberlin. Free.