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Beethoven's Fidelio

May 16 – 24

Mandel Concert Hall

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Beethoven's Fidelio

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The Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival

May 15

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The Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival

May 16

Mandel Concert Hall

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The Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival

May 16 – 24

Cleveland Museum of Art

Beethoven's Fidelio
The Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival

May 16 – 24

Mandel Concert Hall

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The Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival

May 17

Reinberger Chamber Hall

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The Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival

May 18

Mandel Concert Hall

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The Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival

May 19

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The Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival

May 22

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The Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival

May 23

Mandel Concert Hall

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Severance Music Center Presents

Jun 16

Mandel Concert Hall

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Jul 11 – 12

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How To Train Your Dragon in Concert

Aug 7 – 9

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A Celebration 25 Years in the Making

Franz Welser-Möst’s 25th and final season as Music Director.

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Notes & Narratives

Collective Courage: Letting the Music Speak

Fidelio is about the value of human life and how freedom, both individual and collective, is only possible through love.

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Monday, May 18th at 7pm EST

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As the keynote for the the 2026 Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival, acclaimed civil rights leader, bestselling author of Just Mercy, and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative Bryan Stevenson reflects on the meaning of courage: how we confront injustice, stay proximate to suffering, and choose to hope in the face of overwhelming odds.


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