Sat, Sep. 21, 2024, 6.00 pm - 8.45 pm | Main Stage Premiere

Carl Orff

Trionfi

Introduction at 5.20 pm

The Carmina Burana with its mighty Fortuna choirs is one of the most famous musical works, but is rarely performed as a trittico teatrale with its two sister works. Carl Orff created a trilogy that searches for new forms of expression for music theater: between opera, oratorio and cantata. Trionfi stands for the fascination of the primal elements of theater, the popular and cultic, ancient and medieval poetry and again and again: the elemental power of rhythm. Life and its earthly pleasures are triumphantly celebrated, the omnipotence of Eros, the awakening of spring. Love and fidelity are negotiated and a wedding ceremony is performed, culminating in an orgiastic cry. - As the subtitle of Carmina Burana, which speaks of magical images, suggests, there are no limits to the imagination of a scenic realization. Archaic and modern meet.

Musical Direction: Kent Nagano
Staging: Calixto Bieito
Stage design: Rebecca Ringst
Costumes: Anja Rabes
Lighting: Michael Bauer
Video: Sarah Derendinger Sarah Derendinger
Dramaturgy: Bettina Auer

We would like to point out that the production of "Trionfi" contains some scenes with sexual connotations and that some of the performers appear unclothed at times.

In Ancient Greek, Latin, Middle High German and German with German and English surtitles
Supported by the Foundation for the promotion of the Hamburg State Opera