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When:
November 10, 2019 @ 9:45 pm
2019-11-10T21:45:00+01:00
2019-11-10T22:00:00+01:00
Where:
Arena
Piazza Bra
1, 37121 Verona VR
Italy
Cost:
Various
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The 2019 Arena di Verona Opera Festival

Carmina Burana by Carl Orff

A wonderful musical fresco of medieval poetry!

At the Arena, Verona’s historic opera venue!

 

The 24 poems set to music by Orff, mainly in Latin, but also including some in Old High German and one in Provençal, are taken from a collection of 11th and 12th century Medieval poemsdiscovered in the monastery of Benediktbeuern, near Bad Tölz in Bavaria, and handed down through time thanks to an important manuscript contained in a 13th century illuminated manuscript, the Codex Latinus Monacensis 4550 or Codex Buranus: hence the title Carmina Burana, introduced in 1847 by scholar Johann Andreas Schmeller on the occasion of the manuscript’s first publication.