18 June 2018 (Mon), 19:30 World famous Mariinsky Ballet and Opera - Mariinsky II (New Theatre) - Concert Carl Orff "Carmina Burana" (Stage cantata)
Schedule for Carl Orff "Carmina Burana" (Stage cantata) 2022
Composer: Carl Orff Principal Chorus Master: Andrei Petrenko Musical Preparation: Marina Mishuk Principal Chorus Master: Dmitry Ralko
Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
The stage cantata Carmina Burana (1936) is Carl Orff’s most famous opus, bringing the composer international acclaim and, along with a few other 20th century masterpieces, immediately becoming part of the “gold reserves” of the popular classical repertoire.
Mariinsky Theatre Chorus, Children’s Chorus and Orchestra
Musical Preparation: Marina Mishuk Children's Chorus Master: Dmitry Ralko
Conductor: Andrei Petrenko
The stage cantata Carmina Burana (1936) is
Carl Orff`s most famous opus, bringing the composer international acclaim
and, along with a few other 20th century masterpieces,
immediately becoming part of the “gold reserves” of the popular
classical repertoire. In the early 1930 the composer came
across the 12th and 13th century
collection of poetry Carmina Burana (Songs from Beuern), found
in a Bavarian monastery. This collection included works by vagrants
and medieval wandering poets – students, scholars and nomadic monks. These
poems in spoken dialects – in popular Latin, old German and
French – indicate that in the dim and distant past people’s
interests were largely similar to what they are today: wine, women, gambling,
success and wealth… Bu the main idea of the whole literary diversity
lay in the fact that there is nothing everlasting in this world
and man, with his trifling joys and woes is merely a plaything in
the hands of capricious Fate, with the spinning Wheel of Fortune
a symbol of its inconstancy. It is this image that forms a leitmotif
in Orff’s cantata. Attempting to revive music’s “ancient foundations”,
the composer used only the very simplest expressive means – clear
and laconic melodious formulas and harmony reduced to its basic elements.
The greatest secret of the work’s success was Orff’s turning to
the primordial magic of powerful and bewitching rhythms, embodied not just
through the use of the huge percussion section but also thanks to
the clear and declaimed presentation of the poetic text.
Nadezhda Kulygina
Schedule for Carl Orff "Carmina Burana" (Stage cantata) 2022
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