Location
Orchestra Hall, the Max M & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center
3711 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, MI
Tickets
Carmina Burana is a cantata composed in 1935 and 1936 by Carl Orff, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana. Its full Latin title is Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris cantandae comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis. ("Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magical images"). Our performance features:
Melanie Soector, Soprano
Jonathan Lasch, Baritone
Denzel Donald, Tenor
It was first performed by the Oper Frankfurt on 8 June 1937. It is part of Trionfi, a musical triptych that also includes Catulli Carmina and Trionfo di Afrodite. The first and last sections of the piece are called "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" ("Fortune, Empress of the World") and start with "O Fortuna".
Rackham Choir, performs this exciting piece with the Wayne State University Chorus and Wind Symphony.
To help support this and future concerts performed by Rackham Choir, click on the donate button at the top of this page.
Location
Orchestra Hall, the Max M & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center
3711 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, MI
Tickets
Carmina Burana is a cantata composed in 1935 and 1936 by Carl Orff, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana. Its full Latin title is Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris cantandae comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis. ("Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magical images"). Our performance features: Melanie Soector, Soprano Jonathan Lasch, Baritone Denzel Donald, Tenor
It was first performed by the Oper Frankfurt on 8 June 1937. It is part of Trionfi, a musical triptych that also includes Catulli Carmina and Trionfo di Afrodite. The first and last sections of the piece are called "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" ("Fortune, Empress of the World") and start with "O Fortuna".
Rackham Choir, performs this exciting piece with the Wayne State University Chorus and Wind Symphony.
To help support this and future concerts performed by Rackham Choir, click on the donate button at the top of this page.