MahlerFest 38 Opening Night: Death Goes on Strike

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MahlerFest 38 - Defiance, Protest, Resistance, & Remembrance - opening night! 

Boulder Chamber Members get 15% off with code MF38Chamber. 

Viktor Ullmann, a German-speaking, Austro-Hungarian Jew like Mahler, wrote this satirical opera while imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto. Ullmann was later killed in Auschwitz, but the manuscript was saved by the camp’s librarian who survived the war. The opera is a thinly veiled satire of Hitler in which Death is fed up with facilitating a government founded on perpetual war and murder and so goes on strike. But what happens to the living when there is no death? 

More information and tickets at https://mahlerfest.org/event/death-takes-a-vacation/ There will a display of graphic novels based on operas before the concert at 6:30 PM and an opening night reception with cake and post-concert discussion after the performance. This concert is sponsored by Academy Boulder