Orchestra del Teatro Vittorio Emanuele (photo by Elisabetta Saya)
Maurizio Arena - Stefanna Kybalova - Eugenio Favano -
Domenico Balzani

The Carmina Burana is a monumental collection of medieval goliardic monodic and polyphonic songs, that gets its name from place in which this tradition was preserved for centuries: the convent of Beneditktbeuern in Bavaria. Discovered at the beginning of the 19th Century and published in 1847, this collection was extremely successful with re-elaborations for solos, mixed choirs, treble voice choirs and large orchestras made by Carl Orff during the years that preceded World War II. Of the over three hundred original compositions written in Latin, in the d’oil language and in Medieval German, of which only a few are provided with neums difficult to transcribe and without indications for instruments, Orff created a theatrical cantata of great emotive impact: a vast fresco of the medieval world perceived in its profane micro-history as well as the ideal tendency for what was sacred, moral and spiritual. We will listen to the Carmina Burana in a E.A.R. Messina Theatre production conducted by the famous Maurizio Arena, end that is the first of five events during the 2006-2007 season held in cooperation with the Messina theatre.

friday october 13th 2006 at 9 P.M.
saturday october 14th 2006 at 9 P.M.
sunday october 15th 2006 at 5.30 P.M.
The Vittorio Emanuele Theatre

THE VITTORIO EMANUELE
THEATRE ORCHESTRA

THE “OBRETENOV”
NATIONAL BULGARIAN CHOIR

THE TREBLE VOICE CHOIR
“PROGETTO SUONO”

MAURIZIO ARENA
conductor

STEFANNA KYBALOVA
soprano
EUGENIO FAVANO
tenor
DOMENICO BALZANI
baritone

LUBA PESHEVA
choir conductor
GIULIA PINO
treble voice choir conductor

CARL ORFF:
Carmina Burana
Theatrical cantata for solos,
mixed choirs,
treble voice choirs and orchestra

produced by the
E.A.R. Messina Theatre