700 years of poetry, 3000 years of architecture, one absolutely unhinged musical banger.
The Choir and Orchestra of the La Fenice Theatre, conducted by Fabio Luisi, take over Piazza San Marco in Venice for a grandiose concert. Facing the basilica, the musicians perform the famous cantata "Carmina burana", twenty-four medieval poems set to music by Carl Orff between 1935 and 1936.
Production
Piazza San Marco as stage—basilica, pigeons, moonlight, pure audacity.
Direction
Fabrizio Guttuso Alaimo captures every bead of sweat and architectural glow.
Sound
That 'O Fortuna' hits different when echoing off 11th-century marble.
Director
Fabrizio Guttuso Alaimo
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