by Daniel Hathaway
With the opening performance of Franz Lehár’s Count of Luxembourg at 2 pm and an evening staging of The Sound of Music at 7:30, Ohio Light Opera will have five of its six summer shows running — and its stage crew busy changing sets — from now through July 28.
Read our group interview with members of the team that makes it all happen in Freedlander Theatre at the College of Wooster. And check out our conversation with artistic director Steven Daigle about the last two shows on this summer’s menu.
Meanwhile in Cleveland, The Cleveland Orchestra is reviving its Summers at Severance series, and tonight at 7 will welcome guest conductor Oksana Lyniv & pianist Inon Barnatan to Mandel Concert Hall for music by Janáček, Rachmaninoff, Borys Lyatoshynsky & Stravinsky. Read our preview here.
For details of upcoming concerts, visit our Concert Listings page.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On July 11, 1937, American composer George Gershwin died of a brain tumor in Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 38. [Read more…]