Arts Posted by OttawaStart on February 28, 2012
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Carmina Burana – one of the best-known musical works of the twentieth century — explores the human condition with dark humour, irreverence, and lust for life. From tender love to explicit eroticism, from the beauty of nature to human mortality and the power of fate, Carmina Burana combines music and song in an event of exuberant and uninhibited theatrical power. Carmina Burana: Secular Songs for soloist and chorus with Accompanying Instruments and Magic Tableux (Songs from Benediktbeuern) was composed by Carl Orff in 1937, inspired by 13th-century manuscripts discovered in a Bavarian monastery in 1803. From this collection of two hundred songs — complete with bawdy and blasphemous lyrics written by minstrels, defrocked monks, and vagrant students “better known for their rioting, gambling, and intemperance than for their scholarship” — Carl Orff selected twenty-five of the most powerful. Carmina Burana uses simple melodies and distinctive driving rhythms — often punctuated with moments of raw power – to invoke the vagaries of love and the Wheel of Fortune which controls man’s destiny. Composed in only a few weeks, Orff described Carmina Burana as “total theatre”. Though often now presented unstaged, the work was originally intended to be semi-theatrical, complete with dance sequences — hence Orff’s instruction of ‘Magic Tableux’. Carmina Burana is barbaric and pagan — and very potent.
Carmina Burana will be performed in Southam Hall of the National Arts Centre on Thursday March 8 and Friday March 9, 2012 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20.45, $31.21, $42.51, $53.81, $64.57, $75.33, and $94.17, for adults and $11.38, $16.76, $22.41, $28.06, $33.44, $38.82, and $48.24 for students (upon presentation of a valid student ID card). Tickets are available at the NAC Box Office (in person) and through Ticketmaster (with surcharges) at 613-755-1111; Ticketmaster may also be accessed through the NAC’s website www.nac-cna.ca.
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