Carl Orff's Carmina Burana in Ancient Rome
About the Event
Scheduled this summer in the splendid setting of the Roman Theater of Ostia Antica there will be the Carmina Burana, a collection of religious and secular songs discovered in the Benediktbeuern Abbey and composed by itinerant clerics, the so‐called goliards or clerical vagantes, from the 12th to the 13th century.
A unique occasion in which the union of choir, pianos, percussion and solo singers, one hundred people on stage, ballet with coreography by Minea De Mattia form a bridge between history
and tradition.
Michel Hofmann helped Orff select and organize twenty‐four of those songs in a libretto, mostly in Latin, but also medieval German and old Provençal. The selection took into account various themes: luck, health, love, nature,
the return of spring, love, food, wine…
Cast / Production
Pier Giorgio Dionisi, Conductor
Donatella Iaia, Soprano
Antonello Dorigo, Countertenor
Massimo Di Stefano, Bass
Diego Moccia, Piano
Alessandro Romagnoli, Piano
Trippitelli Percussion's Ensemble
Nuova Arcadia Choir
