ChamberFest Cleveland Explores "Lost and Found" and the Rest of the Classical Music to Catch This Week

Catch one of the ChamberFest shows this weekend. Credit: Courtesy ChamberFest Cleveland

This week’s highlights in the Northeast Ohio classical music scene come to you mostly from continuing series with a couple of standalone events mixed in.

– This week, Ohio Light Opera opens a second show in Freedlander Theatre at the College of Wooster. Lerner and Loewe’s Brigadoon will receive a dozen performances once the curtain goes up at 2 pm on Thursday, June 19. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel continues with a performance on Saturday, June 22 and many more to come. Tickets can be booked online.

– ChamberFest Cleveland continues exploring its “Lost and Found” theme with “Variations on Love and Loss” (Friday, June 20 at 7:30 in Mixon Hall, including the premiere of Judith Markovich’s Oh, My Son…), “Starry Night” (Saturday, June 21 at 7:30 in Federated Church in Chagrin Falls, including Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and works by Errollyn Wallen and Beethoven), and “High Voltage” (Tuesday, June 24 at 7:30 at the Hermit Club in Playhouse Square), featuring cellist Jonathan Swensen in the U.S. premiere of Bent Sørensen’s Farewell Fantasia, inside one of America’s oldest private clubs devoted to the performing arts. Happy hour with ChamberFest artistic directors and musicians begins at 7:00 pm. Tickets available online.

– Those standalone events involve a Juneteenth Concert by Renovare Music (Friday, June 20 at 7 pm featuring Lalia Mangione, violin & vocals, Clara Prinston, viola & vocals, and Rebecca Shasberger, cello & vocals at Forest City Brewery, pay-what-you-wish tickets available online) and a gala concert by The Cleveland Opera Singers (Sunday, June 21 at 4 pm at Saint Casimir Church, Cleveland. Freewill offering.)

For details of these and other classical events, visit the ClevelandClassical.com Concert Listings.

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