Colorado MahlerFest

Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 8:00am

Various Location

MahlerFest 38!

“Defiance, Protest, Resistance, & Remembrance”

Join us for an immersive experience featuring a series of concerts and events carefully curated to build deeper understanding and richer context for Mahler’s Sixth Symphony.

Schedule of Events:

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM: Open Rehearsals, Dinners, Masterclasses, & Other Social Events

FREE EVENTS - Hear the Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra prepare, watch our Festival Artists work with aspiring musicians, and join us for social gatherings before and after rehearsals.

11:00 AM: Estranged Passengers – In Search of Viktor Ullmann

Viktor Ullmann composed our opening night opera in the Theresienstadt ghetto.
This FREE event will feature the movie "Estranged Passengers - In Search of Viktor Ullmann" with an introduction by Ryan Hugh Ross who will be performing in the opera and is an expert on surpressed composers.

Location: Academy - Mapleton Hill 311 Mapleton, Boulder, CO, United States

3:00 PM: Songs of Protest and Defiance

FREE EVENT - From the battle cry of “La Marseillaise” in the French Revolution to the unforgettable strains of “We Shall Overcome” in the Civil Rights era, when we raise our voices in the most important protests, we do so in song. Our assembled team of world-class singers present an afternoon of song like no other.

Location: Canyon Theater at the Boulder Public Library 1001 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO, United States

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