Carmina Burana
Carmina Burana was an instantaneous success at its first performance at Frankfurt am Main n 1937 and for the fifty years since it has never faltered in its standing as one of the most universally popular works produced by a 20th century contemporary composer.
Carl Orff (1895-1982) was born into an old Bavarian military family and a devout active Roman Catholic. He found himself lionised overnight at the age of 42 after years as a teacher of music. Although he was to consolidate his reputation with a wide-ranging canon of music, distinctively unlike anyone else's, over the subsequent forty years, he was never able to escape the cachet of the Carmina Burana composer.
Orff conceived his scenic cantata for the stage. His explicit ambition for it was total theatre in which words, music and movement were co-ordinated to create an effect of all-round involvement and it was in the idiom of the theatre that its early performances took place.
Gradually, however, it became the province......
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