The world-renowned Cleveland Orchestra performs Schubert's Symphony No. 3 and Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, Act I in beautiful Severance Hall.
Prokofiev was a master at musical storytelling, and his ballet score to Shakespeare’s famous love story is his best-known and most passionate score. The music brings Romeo and Juliet and their conflicting families fully to life — with music that is, in turn, lushly romantic, playfully whimsical, deftly tuneful, poignantly heartfelt, and powerfully overwhelming. Schubert’s delightful and joyous Third Symphony is an early masterpiece, written when the composer was just an 18-year-old schoolmaster.