Carmina Burana

Music as if it came from ancient times, driven by earthly forces, ancestral rhythms, original chants with universal resonances: this is how Carl Orff imagined his Carmina Burana. He chose 24 secular poems from a 13th-century collection, discovered in a Bavarian abbey, to compose a monumental stage cantata. The work opens and closes with the famous O Fortuna, a bewitching, powerful, and simply unforgettable chorus.