E. Tamberg’s ballet JOANNA TENTATA

Stage Director – Choreographer TEET KASK

Soloists:
MAREIKE FRANZ Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Susanne Linke Company, Germany
RIHITO KAMIYA Japan/ Germany

ORCHESTRA OF MOSCOW NOVAYA OPERA
Stage Designer KISA KAWAKAMI Japan/UK
Lighting Designer MARGUS VAIGUR

C. Orff CARMINA BURANA

MARION MELNIK soprano
MATI TURI tenor

ORCHESTRA AND CHOIR OF MOSCOW NOVAYA OPERA
TALLINN BOYS CHOIR
Dance Thatre FINE 5

Conductor ERI KLAS

Choreography by RENE NÕMMIK and TIINA OLLESK

Duration 2:00 with one intermission

Carmina Burana is a 13th century manuscript taken from a Benedictine Abbey. It was discovered in 1803 in Benediktbeuren, South Germany. Monks saw the verses as protest against religion, pagans saw them as religion, Kings saw them as entertainment and linguists saw them as history.

Carmina Burana contains 250 poems, which are recognized for the most part of being written in low Latin and early German. These languages were used by wandering scholars or minstrels in the employment of royalty. The collection is separated into several themes: love, drinking, gambling and other vices of the flesh figure strongly in the work; however, significant part of the manuscript is dedicated to sincere and religious songs and plays (ludi).

In 1935 Carl Orff took the poems collected by Johann Andreas Schmeller and made use of some two dozen secular texts with new melodies to create a popular 20th century classical work. Orff’s masterpiece brought these texts to the present time and gave it a long-lived significance. The music has a here-and-now quality that captures the attention of modern audiences. Whether it holds a mystical or musical power, Carmina Burana has its share of admirers.

Carmina Burana does not paint the pious and holy picture that the religious leaders of the time may have wanted to pass on. The poetry is simple, resonant and inherent to the life led by the pagan and lower class people of the time. It expresses their true joys and loves in a clear, understandable fashion. Carmina Burana is a valuable look into our bawdy past and perhaps a looking glass for our own time…