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Toronto Symphony kicks off season with an unusual and effective double bill

By John Gilks, 18 September 2025

The Toronto Symphony kicks off the 2025-26 season with an intriguing and exciting double bill of the very new and the very familiar.

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Toronto

18 Sep 2025

Toronto Symphony kicks off season with an effective double bill

By John Gilks

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Edinburgh

An electrifying Carmina Burana from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra

By David Smythe, 15 November 2024

A terrific Carmina Burana from the RSNO and choruses conducted by Marzena Diakun conducting. Elena Langer’s The Dong with a Luminous Nose was a perfect opener.

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Edinburgh

15 Nov 2024

An electrifying Carmina Burana from RSNO

By David Smythe

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Philadelphia

Naughty and nice: Orff and Mozart at the Philadelphia Orchestra

By Cameron Kelsall, 15 March 2024

For his performance of Mozart's C major Concerto, Emanuel Ax plays a new concert grand designed by the late architect Rafael Viñoly.

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Philadelphia

15 Mar 2024

Naughty and nice: Orff and Mozart at the Philadelphia Orchestra

By Cameron Kelsall

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London

Showing Orff: a rip-roaring Carmina Burana from Yamada and the CBSO

By Dominic Lowe, 27 July 2023

Psalm 150 and a collection of outrageous 13th-century texts by boisterous young clergyman collide at the Royal Albert Hall in the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's Prom.

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London

27 Jul 2023

Showing Orff: a rip-roaring Carmina Burana from Yamada and the CBSO

By Dominic Lowe

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Lenox

An entertaining but uneven Carmina Burana at Tanglewood

By Cameron Kelsall, 16 July 2023

Andris Nelsons highlights the spirited wit of Orff's orchestration, but inconsistent singing from soloists and chorus leaves something to be desired.

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Lenox

16 Jul 2023

An entertaining but uneven Carmina Burana at Tanglewood

By Cameron Kelsall

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Philadelphia

Faith and fortune: Opera Philadelphia presents Credo and Carmina Burana

By Cameron Kelsall, 05 February 2023

Carl Orff's bawdy choral work shares a program with the sweet and sincere Credo, a rediscovered work by the American composer and arranger Margaret Bonds.

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Philadelphia

05 Feb 2023

Faith and fortune: Opera Philadelphia presents Carmina Burana

By Cameron Kelsall

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Edinburgh

Finally back indoors: a thrilling Edinburgh International Festival opening concert

By David Smythe, 06 August 2022

Sir Donald Runnicles led a vivid account of The Pines of Rome and an exciting yet thoughtful performance of Carmina Burana with three superb soloists.

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Edinburgh

06 Aug 2022

Finally back indoors: a thrilling EIF opening concert

By David Smythe

Washington

National Symphony’s Carmina Burana pairs with gentler devotions for an opening concert of contrasts

By David Rohde, 03 October 2019

A good audience turnout for the opening of Noseda's third NSO season justifies an all-20th-century program centering on Carl Orff's popular and direct setting of medieval poems about real life and fate, but also presenting gentler works of religious reflection.

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Washington

03 Oct 2019

An opening concert of contrasts in Washington DC

By David Rohde

Cleveland

Carmina Burana at Blossom: A new look at an old friend

By Timothy Robson, 25 August 2018

A fresh and compelling performance of Carl Orff’s classic. Aaron Copland’s rarely-performed Statements filled out the orchestra’s last concert performance at the Blossom Music Festival for 2018.

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Cleveland

25 Aug 2018

Carmina Burana at Blossom: A new look at an old friend

By Timothy Robson

Vienna

A dynamic Carmina Burana at Wolf Trap

By Phillip Nones, 28 July 2017

Torrential downpours and the croaking of consumptive frogs fail to dampen spirits at Wolf Trap's National Symphony Orchestra concert featuring pianist Seong-Jin Cho, JoAnn Falletta and a massive community chorus.

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Vienna

28 Jul 2017

A dynamic Carmina Burana at Wolf Trap

By Phillip Nones

Toronto

Toronto Symphony season closes with Szymanowski and a rousing Carmina burana

By Oliver Brett, 21 June 2017

A crowd-pleaser is joined by a Szymanowski rarity to close the TSO's season.

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Toronto

21 Jun 2017

A rousing Carmina burana in Toronto

By Oliver Brett

Montreal

OSM opens its season with a sophisticated Carmina Burana

By Alan Yu, 08 September 2016

Kent Nagano and OSM wowed with cerebral approach to Carmina Burana.

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Montreal

08 Sep 2016

A sophisticated Carmina Burana in Montréal

By Alan Yu

Lenox

O Fortuna: An eclectic musical evening at Tanglewood

By Edward Sava-Segal, 09 July 2016

Canadian conductor Jacques Lacombe led the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a Debussy, Ravel, Orff program.

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Lenox

09 Jul 2016

An eclectic musical evening at Tanglewood

By Edward Sava-Segal

Washington

Rambunctious Dynamism in Webre's Carmina Burana in Washington

By Hilary Stroh, 14 April 2016

Webre's ends his tenure at the Washingotn Ballet not with a whimper but a bang.

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Washington

14 Apr 2016

Carmina Burana: Webre exits with a bang

By Hilary Stroh

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Madrid

Josep Vicent desentraña lo mejor de un programa contrastante al frente de ADDA Simfònica en Madrid

By Jorge Baeza Stanicic, 02 December 2024

La Orquesta ADDA Simfònica se presentó en Madrid junto al Orfeón Donostiarra en un contrastante programa que resolvieron de manera brillante con Josep Vicent en la dirección.

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Madrid

02 Dec 2024

O Fortuna, et al. en el Auditorio Nacional

By Jorge Baeza Stanicic

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Paris

Les Carmina Burana théâtrales d’Orozco-Estrada à la Philharmonie de Paris

By Erwan Gentric, 17 April 2024

À la tête de l'Orchestre de Paris, le chef colombien propose une lecture énergique de l'œuvre de Carl Orff, au détriment des subtilités de la partition. Les solistes se distinguent.

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Paris

17 Apr 2024

Les Carmina Burana théâtrales d’Orozco-Estrada à la Philharmonie

By Erwan Gentric

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Paris

Les laborieuses Carmina Burana du National au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

By Erwan Gentric, 25 January 2024

Des choix de tempos de Kazuki Yamada au manque de subtilité et de précision de l'Orchestre National de France, l'œuvre de Carl Orff n'a pas bénéficié de l'inspiration espérée.

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Paris

25 Jan 2024

Les laborieuses Carmina Burana du National au TCE

By Erwan Gentric

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Cologne

Heute Feste feiern wie gestern und morgen: Das WDR Sinfonieorchester wird 75

By Jens Klier, 28 October 2022

Frisch gebackener Ritter Măcelaru legt mit Di Castri, Lutosławski und Orff zündende Lunten eines in sich stimmigen Geburtstagsfeuerwerks.

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Cologne

28 Oct 2022

Heute Feste feiern wie gestern und morgen

By Jens Klier

Geneva

Deftiges und Erhabenes: Michael Zukernik und die Pannonische Philharmonie in Genf

By Rolf Kyburz, 27 December 2015

Zum Jahresende boten die Musiker mit Orffs Carmina burana und Beethovens Neunter gleich zwei Reißer im Repertroire.

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Geneva

27 Dec 2015

Deftiges und Erhabenes

By Rolf Kyburz