Carmina Burana

Carl Orff  cannot be regarded as a Wagnerian par excellence, although when he saw Der iegende Holländer at the age of fourteen, the work impressed him so deeply that he immediately began to write a piano reduction of it. As Orff’s artistic work revolved around rhythm and pedagogy, the music drama of Romanticism was far removed from him. But gesamtkunst de nitely was not: his works are almost exclusively for the stage, and he treated the text similarly to Wagner – and he felt just as much at home in Bavaria as Wagner did. Moreover, just like his great predecessor, his interest was drawn to the past, and often to the world of myths and legends. This is why the picture will be made more perfect if Orff’s artistic work is included in the palette of the “Around the Ring” season as one of the new trends which followed Wagner.