Carl Orff - Carmina Burana | Popp, Prey, van Kesteren - Ponnelle (1975 - MULTISUB)

Film version of the famous Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris cantandae comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis (Profane songs for singers and choirs accompanied by instruments and magical figures).

Audio in Latin with subtitles in English, Italian, German and Latin (click on CC for subtitles).

Directed by Ponnelle under the supervision of the author Carl Orff, who set to music selected texts in Latin and Old German from the Carmina burana manuscript of around 1250. Amazing musical interpretation conducted by Kurt Eichhorn, assisted by three highly inspired soloists: Prey, Popp and van Kesteren.

Cast & Crew:
Lucia Popp: Soprano
John van Kesteren: Tenor
Hermann Prey: Baritone

Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Tolzer Knabenchor
Munchner Rundfunkorchester
Conductor: Kurt Eichhorn

The introductory section "Fortuna imperatrix mundi" includes the chorus "O Fortuna" which frames the entire scenic cantata, thus underlining the omnipresence of fate in human affairs.

In the first part, "Primo vere"/"Uf dem Anger" the joys of awakening nature in spring are praised; in the second, "In taberna", the abbot of Cucania narrates the earthly pleasures of eating and drinking; in the third part, "Cour d'amours"/"Blanziflor et Helena", love is celebrated, constantly poised between the sacred and the profane.