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 Ballet-cantata in two acts to music by Carl Orff. 105 min (with intermission). Chelyabinsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre presents. Choreographer: Nadezhda Kalinina. Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana is probably the most frequently performed choral work of the 21st century, made popular by the memorable surfing advert for Old Spice aftershave. Carmina Burana translates as Songs Of Beuren, and refers to a collection of early 13th-century songs and poems that was discovered in Beuren in 1803. Orff chose 24 songs and set them to music in what he termed a “scenic cantata”. After the triumphant premiere of Carmina Burana, Orff wrote to his publishers: “Everything I have written to date, and which you have, unfortunately, published, can be destroyed. With Carmina Burana my collected works begin.” However, nothing Orff subsequently wrote ever came close to approaching the popularity of Carmina Burana.
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