Sat 8/25 @ 8PM
The music of 20th-century German composer Carl Orff is mostly unknown to all but the most educated classical music listeners — except for one piece. His 1937 cantata Carmina Burina, based on 24 medieval poems from a collection of the same name, is a bawdy, foot-stomping work that’s become a staple of the classical repertoire, despite its premiere in Nazi Germany being one of the many controversial episodes in Orff’s biography that have obscured whether he was friend or foe to Hitler’s regime.
The piece will be the star of the Cleveland Orchestra concert at Blossom Music Center, conducted by 35-year-old Frenchman Adrien Perruchon who is making his Cleveland Orchestra debut. The vocal firepower it requires will be provided by soprano Audrey Luna (pictured), tenor Matthe Plenk, baritone Elliot Madore, the Blossom Festival Chorus and the Cleveland Orchestra Children’s Chorus.
The program opens with Aaron Copland’s Statements. Tickets start at $26.
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