“Summer Harmony” includes the participation of People’s Artist Pham Anh Phuong as artistic director, conductor Dong Quang Vinh and singers, the orchestra, the choir, and dancers of the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet Theatre.

Program

Part I: Scenic cantata “CARMINA BURANA” by Carl Orff

VNOB’s Symphony Orchestra
VNOB’s Choir
Hanoi Voices Choir
Hanoi Freude Choir
Xuan Voce Choir

Conductor: Dong Quang Vinh
Sopranos: Dao To Loan, Ngo Huong Diep

Tenors: Trinh Thanh Biinh, Nguyen Anh Vu
Baritones: Vu Manh Dung, Nguyen Huy Duc

“Carmina Burana” structure:

Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi (Fortune, Empress of the World)
1. O Fortuna (O Fortune) – choir
2. Fortune plango vulnera (I lament the wounds that Fortune deals) – choir
I. Primo vere (In Springtime)
3. Veris leta facies (The Joyous face of Spring) – small choir
4. Omnia sol temperat (All things are temted by the Sun) – baritone
5. Ecce gratum (Behold the welcome) – choir
Uf dem anger (On the Lawn)
6. Tanz (Dance) – orchestra
7. Floret silva nobilis (The forest flowers) – Small and large choruses
8. Chramer, gip die varwe mir (Monger, give me coloured paint) – choir (large and small) [German]
9. Reie (round dance) – orchestra, choir and small choir [German]
10. Were diu werlt alle min (If the whole world were but mine) – choir [German]
II. In Taberna (In the Tavern)
11. Estuans interius (Seething inside) – baritone
12. Olim lacus colueram (Once I swam in lakes) – tenor, choir (male)
13. Ego sum abbas (I am the abbot of Cockaigne) – baritone, choir (male)
14. In taberna quando sumus (When we are in the tavern) – choir (male)
III. Cour d’amours (The Court of Love)
15. Amor volat undique (Love flies everywhere) – soprano, children’s chorus
16. Dies, nox et omnia (Day, night and everything) – baritone
17. Stetit puella (There stood a girl) – soprano
18. Circa mea pectora (In my breast) – baritone, choir
19. Si puer cum puellula (If a boy with a girl) – choir (male)
20. Veni, veni, venias (Come, come, pray come) – double choir
21. In truitina (On the scales) – soprano
22. Tempus est iocundum (Time to jest) – soprano, baritone, children’s choir
23. Dulcissime (Sweetest boy) – soprano
Blanziflor et Helena (Blanziflor and Helena)
24. Ave formosissima (Hail to the most lovely) – choir
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi (Fortune, Empress of the World)
25. O Fortuna (O Fortune) – choir

Interval

Part II: Contemporary Dance “Death and the Maiden”

Music: Franz Schubert
Choreography: Hans Henning Paar (Germany)

Choreographer’s narrative “Death and the Maiden” has a twist unlike traditional representation with the contrast between the dark figure of death and decay, and the female body as symbol of youth, beauty and hope. He has introduced a third figure, the lover. In the center of the piece lies the interaction of the trio, but it is not a violent struggle between antagonists, death and the lover, trying to possess the girl. They are more like courting the same girl. Death is not threatening; it oscillates between being powerful and tender, beguiling and darkly comforting.

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