Carmina Burana is a multi vision slide show with 2000 images. The show aims to explain, in its unique ways, the origins of the primal forces that drive human-kind. Carmina Burana offers neither an abstract nor a storyline. This is what makes it a perfect medium for an oratorio composition.
The songs were composed from student songs that date back to the XIIIth - XIVth centuries. The Latin and beauties of nature, the joy of wine and unfettered life in general.
This hour of music revolves around the plurality of desire, violence and mysticism. Laser-drawings at sync with the pulse of the music 360 degree panorama multi vision show will bombard the viewer with intensive visual impulses to let conscious observation give way.
The grandiose oratorio of Carl Orff provides a perfect venue to exhibit the artistic excellence of singers June Anderson, Philip Creech and Bernd Weikl. However , the chorus of Chicago Shymphony or the Chicago Glen Ellyn Children Chorus let alone the Chicago Shymphonic Orchestra conducted by James Levine are a perfect match to the soloists.