Spectrum Dance Theater Ever since the debut of Carl Orff’s Carmina burana in the 1930s, choreographers have been seduced by its rhythms and its bawdy medieval text. Usually the results come out like ...

Centuries-old poems of love and fate are the inspiration for one of today’s most riveting musical works—Carl Orff’s powerhouse cantata Carmina Burana. Now those poems have inspired Columbus-based Oyo ...

Composer Carl Orff most certainly would never have imagined having his most beloved cantata Carmina Burana staged with costumes , actors, dancers, and scenery. As one of those most popular choral ...

Nathan Fifield still can recall the moment he first heard "Carmina Burana." "I was a teenager, and I was driving down 17th Street in Idaho Falls," said Fifield, now the music director of Tulsa Ballet.

It’s really a perfect time for Minnesota State University to be presenting “Carmina Burana,” which fills the normal slot of the Spring Dance Concert. A production that involves almost equal parts ...

That’s what 20th century German composer Carl Orff had in mind when he created “Carmina Burana.” The work will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 20 and 21, as part of the Page Series ...

Santa Barbara, Calif. - The Santa Barbara Symphony is opening their 70th season this coming weekend in collaboration with several local arts organizations. They will feature a crowd favorite, Carl ...

A large, extraordinary collection of medieval poetry came to light in 1803 at the southern Bavarian monastery of Benediktbeuern. This collection of 320 poems, known as Carmina Burana or “Songs of ...

Music director Fabio Luisi led soloists, along with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Chorus and Dallas Symphony Children's Chorus in Carl Orff's 'Carmina Burana' at the Meyerson Symphony ...

You don’t have to be a ballet buff to recognise the opening bars of Carmina Burana. Ominous and powerful, the music of O Fortuna – that opens and closes this ballet – has become instantly familiar ...