This special performance offers a rare and intimate interpretation of one of the 20th century's most iconic works, brought to life by the renowned British conductor and composer Peter Allwood, who boasts an impressive track record in choral, orchestral, and operatic music.
'Carmina Burana' is a bold, stirring cantata based on 13th-century texts—part pagan, part religious, and part scandalous—that recounts the eternal cycles of fortune, lust, love, and loss.
Composed in 1935–1936 and based on 24 poems from the medieval 'Codex Buranus', the work—thanks to Orff's explosive choral style—transformed these ancient verses into one of the most recognizable pieces of the 20th century; it opens with the thunderous 'O Fortuna', a hymn to the cruelty and unpredictability of fate.
The program, reworked from the original manuscripts and arranged for an intimate chamber ensemble with choir, offers a bold and emotionally charged experience that reveals the inner intensity of Orff's vision.
