Music Director Alain Trudel and the Toledo Symphony Orchestra (TSO) open the 2022/2023 season with a one-night-only performance on Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 8PM at the Toledo Museum of Art’s Peristyle Theater. The program features works inspired by Shakespeare’s great romantic play, Romeo and Juliet, including music from Sergei Prokofiev’s iconic ballet, the 1968 classic film, and Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story. This opening concert is part of the ProMedica Masterworks Series with additional support from UBS Financial Services. 

“The choice of repertoire for our season opener came from reminiscing about our first few concerts together,” says Alain Trudel. “My first few projects as Toledo Symphony Music Director included works by Prokofiev and West Side Story: Film with Orchestra. Pairing music from Bernstein’s Romeo and Juliet story with movements from Prokofiev’s ballet felt natural when planning this opening performance commemorating our five years of making music together.” 

Beginning in September, the Toledo Symphony celebrates its 79th season and Alain Trudel’s 5th season as Music Director. The program on Saturday evening features Nino Rota’s Theme from Romeo and Juliet, Sergei Prokofiev’s Suite from Romeo & Juliet, Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, as well as Hector Berlioz’s Scene d’amour from Romeo & Juliet, regarded as one of Berlioz's finest and most original works. 

“The love scene from Berlioz's own Romeo and Juliet oratorio is, in some ways, the heart of the concert, both epic and intimate, it is a personal favorite of mine,” continues Alain. “Nino Rota’s Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet provides a cinematic appetizer to this selection of romantic favorites.” 

HOW TO ATTEND:  

What: Romeo & Juliet 
When: Saturday, September 10, 2022, 8PM 
Where: Peristyle Theater, 2445 Monroe Street, Toledo, Ohio 
Cost: Tickets begin at $21 
More info: Visit toledosymphony.com, stop by the Box Office located at 1838 Parkwood Avenue, or call 419.246.8000, Monday-Friday, 9-5PM. 

Romeo & Juliet will take place Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 8PM at the Toledo Museum of Art’s Peristyle Theater. Tickets are available at toledosymphony.com or by calling the box office at 419.246.8000. For more information, please contact Vanessa Gardner, Vice President of Marketing & Communications for the Toledo Alliance for the Performing Arts at vgardner@artstoledo.com.  

ABOUT TOLEDO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 

The Toledo Symphony Orchestra is a community-supported organization of professional musicians and teachers who deliver quality performance and music education for all. 

Formed in 1943 as The Friends of Music and incorporated in 1951 as the Toledo Orchestra Association, Inc., the Toledo Symphony Orchestra (TSO) has grown from a core group of twenty-two part-time musicians to a regional orchestra that employs sixty-nine professional musicians who consider the Toledo Symphony their primary employer, as well as numerous extra players annually as repertoire demands. 

The Toledo Symphony reaches more than 260,000 individuals annually through performances and education programs. The series concerts (Masterworks, Pops, Chamber, and Family Series) are the critical underpinning of the orchestra’s artistic mission and regularly draw people from 135 postal zip codes. Education programs, student performances, and community concerts are held in schools, neighborhood churches, performing arts centers, and community facilities throughout the region; many are offered at no charge or provided at a reduced fee to help expand participation.