About the Festival

From 9 to 18 May 2025, the Royal Concertgebouw will host the third Mahler Festival in its history. As a grand tribute to the composer, orchestras from around the world will come together in Amsterdam 105 years after the first Mahler Festival.

 

About the Festival

  • During the Mahler Festival 2025, all of Gustav Mahler's symphonies and songs will be played over ten days (May 9 through May 18, 2025) in the Main Hall and Recital Hall of The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. The symphonies will be performed in order: from number 1 to number 10. This makes the festival - in the Main Hall - a unique chronological journey through Mahler's life and symphonic work. The symphonies are performed by various world-famous orchestras and conductors. In the Recital Hall, Mahler's complete song repertoire will be heard.

    The complete programme of the Mahler Festival 2025 will be announced in the fall of 2023.

  • The complete programme of the Mahler Festival 2025 will be announced in early November 2023. But a few things we can already reveal: the Concertgebouw Orchestra, led by its future chief conductor Klaus Mäkelä, will give the opening concert with Mahler's First Symphony. The Berliner Philharmoniker will conclude the festival with Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony. The NHK Symphony Orchestra from Tokyo, conducted by Fabio Luisi, will perform Mahlers Fourth Symphony.  And pianist Julius Drake, together with young singers, will perform Mahler's complete song repertoire in the Recital Hall.

  • Passe-partout sales for the Mahler Festival 2025 will start Tuesday, November 14, 2023. The complete programme will be announced in the fall of 2023. Tickets for individual concerts will go on sale from June 1, 2024.

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