Name: Carmina Burana
Start: 2022-09-15T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-09-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theater

Organization

Conductor

Marina Mishuk

Repetiteur

Chorus master

Konstantin Rylov

Irina Yatsemirskaya

Singer

Soprano

Zhanna Dombrovskaya

Tenor

Andrei Popov

Baritone

Vladimir Moroz

Mariinsky Theatre

Carmina Burana

Saint Petersburg

Russia

Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theater

Carmina Burana: Carmina Burana Orff

Public

Russian

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Theorbist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Countertenor

Bass

Bass-baritone

Mezzo-soprano

Contralto

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

The 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 1930s 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, Middle High German and Old 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… But the main idea of the whole literary diversity lays 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

English

Carmina Burana by Orff, From (2022/2022), Conductor Marina Mishuk, Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theater, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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