Nashville Ballet brings its 30th anniversary season to a close with two works choreographed by artistic director and CEO Paul Vasterling: a dazzlingly intricate and grand revival of Carmina Burana, ...
Carl Orff's “Carmina Burana” is based on Medieval poems about love, drinking, and spirituality – some bawdy and irreverent. For the Kansas City Ballet's epic-scaled production, music director Ramona ...
Though it might make for a better story, it is a myth that Carmina Burana is a bunch of bawdy songs written by monks. They were actually medieval clerical students who, predictably enough, liked to go ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Based on a collection of medieval poems, Carmina Burana was composed in the ...
Second marriages have been described somewhat cynically as hope triumphing over experience. Something similar must have happened Saturday when, for the South Bay’s latest “Carmina Burana,” the ...
Forty-four years ago, Elizabeth and Steven Wistrich danced in choreographer John Butler’s production of “Carmina Burana,” memorably staged in a Belgian cathedral with a live orchestra and a chorus of ...
When City Ballet staged “Carmina Burana” in May of last year, resident choreographer Geoff Gonzalez wanted to try a different approach. He decided to create a new narrative to the music composed by ...
Ballet dancers often impress onlookers with their balance, strength, coordination and teamwork. But what will the reaction be when these skills are used to perform Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana and ...
Clad in a little black dress, Fortuna appears center stage, blindfolded, in stiletto heels. A full chorus and orchestra charges the atmosphere with insistent rhythms and driving chants as she advances ...
Gospel jubilation doesn’t come instantly to mind when you think of Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana.” But in the composer’s scaled-down version of his “scenic cantata” — scored for two pianists and three ...
In a rare collaboration, the Florida Symphony Orchestra, Bach Festival Choir and Southern Ballet Theatre joined forces to open the ballet season Friday night with Carmina Burana at Carr Performing ...