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Carmina Burana

Music · Drama

Carmina Burana

7.6(6) 9/29/1978 1h 0m
MusicDrama

A very visual and profound dramatization of the various sections of Carmina Burana, a symphonic piece composed by Carl Orff about medieval poetry by an anonymous author.

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Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

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Filipe Manuel Neto

10/10

10/18/2022

**Not being an expert, I consider this to be the best and most interesting video dramatization of Orff's Carmina Burana.** I am an incorrigible music lover, and classical music has accompanied my life for as long as I have known myself. However, I didn't fully explore this piece, by Carl Orff, until I was eighteen years old. I've heard it countless times. I virtually memorized the lyrics (especially the Latin parts). Later, I saw it live. Much more recently, I became more in touch with the original texts and poetry of the Codex Buranus and with sung versions that are closer to the medieval sound, which was in line with my activity as a medievalist. And I have no doubt that I have not read or heard it all. When creating this symphonic work, at the beginning of the 20th century, Carl O

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