MIT Concert Choir & MIT Symphony Orchestra: Carmina Burana

MIT Concert Choir and MIT Symphony Orchestra present Carl Orff’s *Carmina Burana*, a dramatic scenic cantata built from medieval secular poetry. The work explores the pleasures and uncertainties of love, the renewal of spring, the beauty of nature, and the guilty delights of drinking through poems written in Latin, High German, and Old French.

Orff’s inspiration came from discovering a collection of medieval poems in an antiquarian shop in 1934. The texts are attributed largely to goliards—young, impoverished clergy who traveled through Europe composing drinking songs, romantic ballads, satire, and religious commentary. The performance brings together MIT’s vocal and orchestral ensembles with soprano, tenor, and baritone soloists.

When: Friday, November 20

Showtime: 8:00 p.m.

Venue: Kresge Auditorium (W16), MIT Music and Theater Arts

Tickets: $15 general admission; free for those with an MIT ID

Livestream: An online livestream is available through the event page.

Soloists: Sarah Moyer, soprano; Srinivasan Raghuraman, tenor; and Sumner Thompson, baritone

Performers: MIT Concert Choir and MIT Symphony Orchestra

Conductors and Directors: Adam Boyles conducts MIT Symphony Orchestra, and Ryan Turner directs the MIT Concert Choir.