All Aboard for Love & Laughter. After more than four decades, H.M.S. Pinafore returns to Toledo Opera, bringing Gilbert & Sullivan’s signature wit, music, and high-seas hijinks to life. Onboard, the captain’s daughter Josephine hopes for love with the humble sailor Ralph Rackstraw, despite her father’s plans to marry her to the pompous Sir Joseph Porter. Mischievous […]

All Aboard for Love & Laughter. After more than four decades, H.M.S. Pinafore returns to Toledo Opera, bringing Gilbert & Sullivan’s signature wit, music, and high-seas hijinks to life. Onboard, the captain’s daughter Josephine hopes for love with the humble sailor Ralph Rackstraw, despite her father’s plans to marry her to the pompous Sir Joseph Porter. Mischievous […]

HADESTOWN A Valentine Premiere! • The National Tour! No vouchers accepted. Thursday, February 25, 2027 at 7:30 p.m. Welcome to Hadestown, where a song can change your fate — a love story for today — and always. Hadestown intertwines two mythic tales — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades […]

LARA DOWNES, piano  STRAYHORN, arr. Walden: A Lovesome Thing “The Declaration Project”      VALERIE COLEMAN: Life      ARTURO O’FARRILL: Liberty      CHRISTOPHER TIN: The Pursuit of Happiness GERSHWIN, arr. Bennett: Porgy & Bess: A Symphonic Picture Billy Strayhorn’s A Lovesome Thing opens the evening with a lyrical melody drawn from the world of jazz. Pianist Lara Downes joins the orchestra for selections […]

DANCING WITH THE CELTS A Toledo Premiere! National Tour! Friday, March 5, 2027 at 8 p.m. An all-star cast of top Irish musicians has united with the finest Nashville players to create the new sound and energy that is Dancing With The Celts! Join us when The Celts deliver a fresh blend of Irish Americana, combining their own rootsy originals and tight vocal harmonies […]

JOAN ELLISON, vocalist MICHAEL BERKOWITZ, bandleader Joan Ellison leads a program shaped around the voices that defined the Great American Songbook. From Ella Fitzgerald to Judy Garland and beyond, these songs are built on phrasing, clarity, and connection with the audience. With the Toledo Jazz Orchestra, the focus stays on the voice and the storytelling at the center of each […]

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MICHELLE MERRILL, conductor  Three former Broadway Christines take the stage for a program that moves beyond a single role. Drawing on years of performing THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA around the world, they bring vocal precision, blend, and presence to a mix of musical theater favorites, classic songs, and their own arrangements. The program balances humor, warmth, and full-voice intensity, […]

ALAIN TRUDEL, conductor JOSHUA BELL, violin  BEETHOVEN: Drei Equali for Four Trombones BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”) Internationally celebrated violinist Joshua Bell returns to Toledo for a program devoted entirely to Beethoven as the orchestra marks the 200th anniversary of the composer’s death. Bell performs Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, a work known for its long singing lines and moments of quiet […]

MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! A Toledo Premiere! The National Tour! Tuesday, March 30, 2027 at 7:30 p.m. Emmy Award-winning actor Richard Thomas brings to life “the nation’s one true comic genius” (The New York Times) in Mark Twain Tonight!, written and originally performed by Hal Holbrook. “Bursting with Twain’s uproariously funny and pungently wise humor.” (Time Magazine). Currently seen on Broadway in The Balusters, on tour as Atticus  […]

Enjoy unique musical programs curated and performed by the musicians of your Toledo Symphony in the intimate setting of the newly opened Robert Bell Studio at the Toledo Center for Live Arts.

ALAIN TRUDEL, conductor  MOZART: Symphony No. 36 (“Linz”) R. STRAUSS: Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony) Journey from Mozart’s sparkling Classical style to Strauss’s towering Alpine landscape. Mozart’s Symphony No. 36, known as the “Linz,” was written in just a few days after Mozart arrived in the Austrian city and learned a concert had been planned in his honor. The symphony unfolds […]

KINKY BOOTS A Valentine Premiere! The National Tour! No vouchers accepted. Thursday, April 22, 2027 at 7:30 p.m. Based on true events, Kinky Boots follows the journey of two people with nothing in common – or so they think. Charlie Price reluctantly inherits his father’s shoe factory, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. Trying […]