[ConorMacNessa]

Great fun indeed! Sang that with the Oratorio Society of Washington - we rocked them out with "In Taberna" - I enjoyed the "Ave Formosissima" - that high B is fantastic.

Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis!

[Publius]

I've found some Youtube links that are actually staged, as Orff wanted, with dancers and choreography. I'll have to provide Latin-to-English translations in text. A few Youtube entries do lyrics in both languages, but the images are not as compelling as the staged link.

The biggest issue is that in breaking it up, all the attacca's are lost. You have that conflicting fermata and attacca at the end of most songs, and most peformances take the fermata and leave the attacca behind. I only saw it done once the way Orff wrote it, with the attaccas honored, and it was an opera director from Berlin who conducted it at the Hollywood Bowl. The momentum he builds up toward the end fails when you emphasize the fermatas. That orgasmic "Dulcissima" with its cadenza doesn't work if you stop just before it.

[ConorMacNessa]

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