Carl Orff's Carmina Burana by La Fura dels Baus is coming to Artpark

More than 325,000 people have experienced the spectacle of La Fura dels Baus’ production of Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana.”
Now, for one-night only, this groundbreaking performance makes its North American premiere at Artpark: July 29 at 8:00PM in the Mainstage Theater.
220 artists lead you into an immersive world of striking imagery and special effects. An international cast of vocalists takes to the air and water. And the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gil Rose and Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus perform the powerful, breathtaking score.
“If there is a great and sensual score, glorious and energetic, erotic and explosive, as full of life and sin as it is of irony, parody and excess, that is the provocative Carmina Burana, by Carl Orff…the Bavarian composer and lover of excess wanted to make a cantata that would dazzle with its magnetism and spectacular music."
“Those medieval texts written between the 12th and 13th centuries, found in the monastery of Bura Sancti Benedicti (Bavaria), where the monks and students laughed at everything established and sang of excessive pleasure, wine, revelry, and sex with and without condemnation, have lasted throughout the 20th century and continue to do so in the 21st, since Orff put them to music in 1938. Pure gold for a group like La Fura dels Baus.”
- Excerpts from a 2009 review in Spanish publication El Pais
“For nearly 45 years, La Fura dels Baus has been rocking, blowing up stages, opera houses, venues, tents, bullrings, football stadiums. Now they land at Artpark to offer his theatrical vision of one of the musical works that is performed the most throughout the world.”
- Carlus Padrissa, Directorducted by Gil Rose, the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus and other community groups.
Tickets are on sale now! Visit Artpark.net for more info.