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* The most popular work for choir by Carl Orff
* With 24 vocalists based on medieval vagabond poetry
* As a “musical world theatre” in magic images
* Performed for the ancient Augusta Raurica Theatre in Augst (CH)
* In co-operation with the Basel Theatre
* Premiere 6 September 2008
Carl Orff (1895 – 1982)
The most famous work by the composer, who, as a music educator, developed the “Orff Schulwerk”, or “Orff Approach”, for the purpose of rhythmic movement education, is the setting to music of 24 poems from a manuscript of the Benediktbeurn Abbey from the late Middle Ages. He summarised it as a vision of a “musical world theatre” in the first part of a triptych in a “scenic cantata”. However, since Orff never formulated implementations for the staging or dramaturgy, Carmina Burana is usually performed only as a choral work.
Performance
For the open-air performance PAN.OPTIKUM adopted Carl Orff’s vision of a “musical world theatre” and had the ancient theatre in Augst specially remodelled and enlarged as an amphitheatre:
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