Stuttgarter Oratorienchor e.V.

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 …

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.    

The Summer Concerts of the Stuttgart Oratorio Choir are traditionally free in their programmatic orientation. In contrast to the Passion Concert or Christmas Concert,where thematic contexts are taken into account, we have been able to take the opportunity in the summer over the past years to make our cultural contribution with special works. Examples of this would be the Misa Tango by Palmeri with instrumental tango compositions by Piazzolla (2019), the operatic Petite Messe solennelle by Rossini (2018), the peace mass The Armed Man by Jenkins (2015) or even a mixed French programme such as Musique du ciel with works Lesen Sie mehr …