By Martin Bernheimer Once every year Franz Welser-Möst and the mighty Cleveland Orchestra – emphatically his mighty Cleveland Orchestra – pretend they are an opera company. The pretence is invariably welcome, and imposing too. This season the object of ...

But the conducting of Franz Welser-Möst, while commanding, intelligent and organic, lacked the extra dimension of intensity and terror that make for a great “Salome.” When he took over the Cleveland Orchestra, following the towering maestro Christoph ...

A little over a month after the visiting Cleveland Orchestra played it under Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, Shostakovich's irresistibly original work returned to Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday afternoon, in a vivid performance by the San Francisco ...

The Cleveland Orchestra and Maestro Franz Welser-Möst will perform a program that includes the New York premiere of Kaija Saariaho's Laterna magica, a work inspired by the autobiography of Ingmar Bergmann, and Shostakovich's powerful Symphony No. 6.

May 23, 2012Violinist Gil Shaham joined conductor Franz Welser-Möst and the orchestra for Brahms' Violin Concerto plus the Shostakovich Sixth and the New York premiere of Kaija Saariaho's 'Laterna Magica.' by Anastasia Tsioulcas The Cleveland Orchestra ...

If Franz Welser-Möst—who is the music director not only of this orchestra but also of the Vienna State Opera—has a supreme talent, it is surely the conducting of opera. All Cleveland Orchestra concerts at Carnegie Hall are eagerly awaited, ...

If Franz Welser-Möst—who is the music director not only of this orchestra but also of the Vienna State Opera—has a supreme talent, it is surely the conducting of opera. All Cleveland Orchestra concerts at Carnegie Hall are eagerly awaited, ...

Swedish soprano Nina Stemme, called "a match for the best Salomes in the history of opera," leads international cast in Strauss's Salome with The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst at Severance Hall on May 19 and 26 and at Carnegie Hall on May ...