Carmina Burana News

 
Exciting 'Carmina Burana' ends symphony season
Houston Chronicle
By Everett Evans The Houston Symphony is ending the current subscription season with the rush and roar of Carl Orff's scenic cantata "Carmina Burana," one of the most popular and frequently performed works for orchestra and chorus.
MCS to perform Orff's 'Carmina Burana'Cabinet.com
150 homeless men to be special guests at symphony concertDowntown Memphis

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'Carmina Burana' rousing start to May Festival
Cincinnati.com
Philip Groshong The Cincinnati May Festival made a joyful noise to the words “O Fortuna,” the wheel-of-fortune” song that anchors Carl Orff's “Carmina Burana,” to open its 2012 festival on Friday. Music Hall's Springer Auditorium, which seats more than ...
NC Symphony, Master Chorale end season with spectacleNews & Observer

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NY Philharmonic: Falla Premiere
New Yorker
Making a kind of re-première is Carl Orff's lusty (and very German) “Carmina Burana,” which the orchestra hasn't played since 1995. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, an eminent maestro of German and Spanish extraction who thrives in splashy repertory, ...


 
NOLA.com
Double bill of 'Pagliacci,' 'Carmina Burana' a hotly passionate finale for ...
NOLA.com
By Theodore P. Mahne, Times-Picayune On paper, it might not look like “I Pagliacci” and “Carmina Burana” would complement one another on an opera stage. After all, one isn't even an opera. However, despite differing styles – “Pagliacci” an apogee of ...


 
Thanh Nien Daily
Hanoi to present cantata Carmina Burana
Thanh Nien Daily
An operatic concert entitled Carmina Burana, featuring the directorial work of Pham Anh Phuong of the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet, UK conductor Graham Sutcliffe and other local artists will take place on June 7 at Hanoi Opera House.


 
Review: MSO ends Masterworks with bang
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Saturday night's performance of "Carmina Burana" at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts (and another performance scheduled Sunday afternoon at the Germantown Performing Arts Centre) gave maestro Mei-Ann Chen a chance to crank it up with a crowd ...

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Insulted by symphony snobs
York Daily Record
To have the Bowerses reduce this past spring's performance of "Carmina Burana" by the chorus and orchestra to "a noisy cantata" and the orchestra was no more than a "pit orchestra" is an insult. As a chorus member, that performance was one of the most ...