Jahr: 2023

A choir performs on stage under the direction of a conductor, with members holding sheet music. Musicians accompany them, including a pianist and percussionist. The scene is brightly lit, creating a formal concert atmosphere.

“Carmina Burana” at the Uhlandshöhe

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For the choir, Carl Orff is known to have built into his legendary work a whole series of “vocal-musical hurdles” that have to be jumped. Long sustained, “highest” registers in the sopranos and tenors, tricky rhythmic complications, many voice divisions (up to eight-part harmony), demanding male choruses, fast tempi, many tempo changes, lots of text for the choir and so much more. But the soloist parts are also “on the edge of the possible”. The baritone arias demand from the soloist a vocal range above any baritone bandwidth and a breadth of expression that demands the utmost. The same applies Lesen Sie mehr …

A choir performs on stage with a conductor leading in front. Singers are grouped in rows, wearing black and red clothing. Musicians sit at a piano and orchestral percussion instruments are visible.

“Carmina Burana” auf der Uhlandshöhe

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Für den Chor hat Carl Orff in seinem legendären Werk bekanntlich eine ganze Reihe von „stimmlich-musikalischen Hürden“ eingebaut, die es zu überspringen gilt. Lang ausgehaltene, „höchste“ Lagen in den Sopranen und Tenören, knifflige rhythmische Komplikationen, viele Stimmteilungen (bis zur Achtstimmigkeit), anspruchsvolle Männerchöre, schnelle Tempi, viele Tempowechsel, jede Menge Text für den Chor und so einiges mehr. Aber auch die Solisten-Partien sind „am Rande des Möglichen“. Die Bariton-Arien fordern vom Solisten einen Stimmumfang über jeder Bariton-Bandbreite und eine Ausdrucksweite, die das Äußerste abverlangt. Für die Sopran-Nummern gilt das Gleiche. Es bräuchte eigentlich drei Sängerinnen mit verschiedenen Sopran-Profilen. Und der Tenor singt Lesen Sie mehr …

Poster for a Stuttgart performance of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" on July 23, 2023, at Waldorfschule Uhlandshöhe. Features a quote from Orff and event details including venue and ticket information. Includes logos and decorative elements.

Only a few days left…

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The choir ticket pre-sale is now closed . Did you only recently find out about our concert through our glass poster advertising, which can be seen at many railway stations in the Stuttgart city area, or through other media? Don’t panic, you can spontaneously decide to attend “our” Carmina Burana and spin the wheel of fortune of the Fortuna together with us: The box office will be at your disposal from 18:15. We await you full of anticipation! Hall opening is from 18:30. Please choose your own seat.