Auckland Choral and APO present Carmina Burana

Auckland Choral’s next performance as part of Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s Choral Masterpieces Concert:

Carmina Burana

ORFF Carmina Burana
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8, op. 93, F major

Conductor - Roy Goodman

Penelope Mills, soprano
Benjamin Makisi, tenor
Phillip Rhodes, baritone


Carmina Burana has featured in hundreds of movie soundtracks. Based on 24 medieval poems with themes of lust, love and excess, the first and final movement O Fortuna is the best known and there is nothing like hearing this stirring masterpiece live! Roy Goodman is the conductor with soloists including Penelope Mills (soprano), Benjamin Makisi (tenor) and Phillip Rhodes (baritone) with Auckland Choral and a specially assembled children’s choir. The concert will also feature Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony.

“Everything I have written to date, and which you have, unfortunately, printed, can be destroyed. With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin.” – Carl Orff
Auckland Town Hall / Thursday 6 October & Friday 7 October / 8.00 pm
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