The Carmina Burana with its mighty Fortuna choirs is one of the most famous musical works, but is rarely performed as a trittico teatrale with its two sister works. Carl Orff created a trilogy that searches for new forms of expression for music theater: between opera, oratorio and cantata. Trionfi stands for the fascination of the primal elements of theater, the popular and cultic, ancient and medieval poetry and again and again: the elemental power of rhythm. Life and its earthly pleasures are triumphantly celebrated, the omnipotence of Eros, the awakening of spring. Love and fidelity are negotiated and a wedding ceremony is performed, culminating in an orgiastic cry. - As the subtitle of Carmina Burana, which speaks of magical images, suggests, there are no limits to the imagination of a scenic realization. Archaic and modern meet.

EPSG:4326

Trionfi

Staatsoper Hamburg

In the heart of Hamburg: a warm late summer night, hustle and bustle, conviviality and brilliant sounds in the open air - chief conductor Kent Nagano, the Philharmonic State Orchestra and the Hamburg State Opera have once again brought a special gift to their loyal audience this year. With powerful choirs, rousing rhythms and beautiful melodies: with Carl Orff's cantata "Carmina Burana", the orchestra, together with the choir of the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Boys' Choir, are bringing one of the most popular musical creations ever to the Rathausmarkt. "O Fortuna, your moods change like the image of the moon," is how the opening chorus first addresses the goddess of fate, before moving on in several stages through the different stages of human life. The wheel of fate rolls relentlessly between joy and sorrow, love and consolation, telling of the autumn of one's own existence and yet offering the decisive hope: that a new spring will come - O, Fortuna!

Sandra Hamaoui

Events

Past events

Oct 12, 2024

Trionfi · Staatsoper Hamburg

Aug 31, 2024

Rathausmarkt Open Air · Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Future and recently performed repertoire

Singer in Carmina Burana by Orff

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Singer in Prélude à L'après-midi d'un faune by Debussy

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Singer in Trionfo di Afrodite by Orff

Staatsoper Hamburg

Singer in If Bach had bred bees ... by Pärt

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

About

Sandra Hamaoui hasn't added a bio