Carmina Buranaverified
Carl Orff built his cantata on the medieval Carmina Burana codex, found at Benediktbeuern Abbey and holding 318 texts. Teatro Leal in La Laguna stages it on 10 September at 20:30 in the main hall, with the Wheel of Fortune at the centre of the programme. Tickets cost 20 €. Wheelchair accessible seats are sold only by phone on 922 265 433 or at the theatre box office.
The Carmina Burana codex turned up at Benediktbeuern Abbey and gathers 318 texts. Most of the verses are in Latin, though the manuscript also keeps fragments in Middle High German and Old French. Carl Orff took those verses and built a cantata that most listeners recognise from the opening bar. The programme turns around the Wheel of Fortune, the poem that opens the codex.
The performance starts at 20:30 on 10 September in the main hall of Teatro Leal, in the old town of San Cristóbal de La Laguna. Tickets cost 20 €. Wheelchair accessible seats are not sold online: for those you need to call 922 265 433 or go to the theatre box office in person.