The Choir of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, directed by Piero Monti, presents Carl Orff's Carmina Burana in a unique and unmissable evening.
The Carmina Burana, whose full title is "Carmina burana: Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris, comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis", are a scenic cantata composed by the great German composer between 1935 and 1936, based on 24 poems found in Medieval collection of the same name, the work of goliards and clerici vagantes. The Carmina belong to the theatrical triptych by Orff Trionfi, which, composed in different periods, also includes the Catulli Carmina (1943) and the Triumph of Aphrodite (1953). Performed for the first time in 1937 in Frankfurt am Main, they were an immediate success.
Orff's theatrical adaptation features a large number of instruments and a large orchestra, as well as two choirs, one made up of children's voices and another mixed, made up of at least three soloists: baritone, soprano and tenor. The orchestra structure is also composed of many wind instruments (flutes, oboes, clarinets), strings, two pianos, brasses (horns, trumpets, trombones and bass tuba) and percussion instruments.
All this results in an intense liveliness capable of capturing and involving listeners, in a medieval atmosphere where all the characters are portrayed in daily scenes of the life of that period.
Photo credits: courtesy of the Academy of Santa Cecilia official site
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