Carmina Burana de Carl Orff

Teatro Nacional de São Carlos
4, 6 e 8 de Maio de 2005

o soprano francês
Magali Léger,
o contratenor croata
Max Emanuel Cencic,
o barítono húngaro
Viktor Massányi,
os Pequenos Cantores da Academia de Amadores de Música,
o Coro do Teatro São Carlos
e a Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa,
todos sob a direcção
de Zoltán Peskó


Carmina Burana, Wikipedia.
"... The lyrics of the poems cover a wide range of secular topics, as familiar in the 13th century as they are today: the fickleness of fortune, the ephemeral nature of life, the joy of the return of spring, and the pleasures of drinking, gluttony, gambling and lust. ..."

Tudo sobre Carmina Burana de Carl Orff.
"... Orff's principal aim evident in CB has been a 'total theatre' where music, words and movement work together in producing an overwhelming effect. He sought models of such a work in two cultural traditions: classical Greek tragedy and Italian Baroque musical theatre. Orff had previously written works based on Sophocles and Aeschylus, as well as arranging some works of Monteverdi. Carl Orff considered that opera after Gluck had lost the plot and wanted to continue on in this tradition. ..."

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Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi (Fortune, Empress of the World)

O Fortuna (Chorus) O Fortune

O Fortune,
like the moon
you are changeable,
ever waxing
and waning;
hateful life
first oppresses
and then soothes
as fancy takes it;
poverty
and power
it melts them like ice.

Fate - monstrous
and empty,
you whirling wheel,
you are malevolent,
well-being is vain
and always fades to nothing,
shadowed
and veiled
you plague me too;
now through the game
I bring my bare back
to your villainy.

Fate is against me
in health
and virtue,
driven on
and weighted down,
always enslaved.
So at this hour
without delay
pluck the vibrating strings;
since Fate
strikes down the string man,
everyone weep with me!

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Comentários:

De Anónimo a 5 de Maio de 2005 às 15:18

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Parabéns à soprano Magali Léger, gostei da postura descontraída. O contratenor mais valia ter ficado em casa...zp