Wednesday 11, July
> 20h Opéra Berlioz / Le Corum
Cantata for soloists, chorus, children’s chorus and orchestra (1935-36
Staged version - A production of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Götz Friedrich, mise
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Ditte Andersen : soprano
Markus Brück : baryton
Jörg Schörner : ténor
Beate Vollack :
Der Mensch
Choeur et Orchestre du Deutsche Oper de Berlin
Choeur d'enfants Opéra Junior
Tomas Netopil, direction
Marc Bogaerts, chorégraphie
Ulrich Paetzholdt, chef de choeur
With the support of the Conseil Régional Languedoc-Roussillon
Starting from a mediaeval anthology entitled Carmina Burana that brought together more than 200 poems from sources both secular and religious, Carl Orff called attention to himself in the 1930s when he set some of them with a lavish, modern orchestration. Touched by ‘the irresistible rhythm and the poems full of imagery, as well as the unique concision and musicality of the Latin language, rich in vowels,’ the composer placed himself in an archaistic, folkloric vein, like his contemporaries Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky. Co-founder, in 1924, of the Günther School of Gymnastics, Dance and Music, Orff was already seeking to create stage works that would be a merging of music, speech and gesture. Here, in addition to the traditional orchestra, three soloists and chorus, two pianists and five percussionists hammer out even more insistently the vigorous, implacable rhythm of these Carmina Burana in a grandiose staging by director Götz Friedrich.
Franck Mallet
