Carmina Burana

The representation is on the subject of the traumatic passage from post-adolescence to maturity. The inspiration originates from the original text of Carmina Burana: a group of Clergymen – Clerici Vagantes – become conscience that the world does not function by the moral rules that they have been given, they then create a group that follows the rules of virtue, and dive in completely and with passion to experiment this freedom and life filled with pleasures. The subject is rendered a performance utilizing ideas and imagined images of these young people. The gothic myth, cited from the famous music of Carl Orff, provocative of evil, in its most superstitious state, represents to us a morally corrupt society, unbiased resist to the fear of the divine punishment. In fact, certain songs they have turned upside down in an ironic way and played with the topics and attitudes of the then dominant literature: wine, woman, game, the pleasures of life are exalted to you from this poetry born in a cultured atmosphere and parody of modules of the ecclesiastical language.

Fredy Franzutti  

choreographer and director of “Carmina Burana”

After a period of training and professional experience in Europe (Italy, Scotland, Germany, France, Spain) began his choreographic fortunate career founding Balletto del Sud in 1995 in his home town Lecce, a baroque beautiful city in south Italy, a ballet company which he leads and for which he has created 34 productions, turning it into the best Italian troupe in the classic academic style.

Ballets created by Fredy Franzutti for his company include the best titles of romantic tradition: “The Nutcracker”, “Swan Lake”, “The Sleeping Beauty”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “Sheherazade” “The Firebird” all with great success in European theatres.

He was hailed by the critics as “Italy’s young choreographic prodigy” (Michele Nocera), and “One of Italy’s most appreciated and talented choreographers” (Victoria Ottolenghi).

As well, Fredy has created ballets for the most important European theatres like Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow, Rome Opera House, Sofia Opera House, Monte Carlo Opera House, Bilbao Opera House, Theatre “V. Bellini” of Catania, for Pesaro Rossini’s Festival, and for different televised events.

Franzutti has also directed the film “If this is a Man” interpreted by Michele Placido, Emilio Solfrizzi.

The choreographer Fredy Franzutti, today one of the best known and most appreciated on the national scene, to create his version of CARMINA BURANA, takes as inspiration the original one of the text and successfully realizes a representation that has as its subject the traumatic passage from post- adolescence to maturity.

In 1200, a group of Clerici Vagantes become aware that the world does not function according to the moral rules that have been imparted to them; they, invested by the spectacle of corruption, pettiness and hypocrisy of everyday life, create a group that reacts by reiterating the necessity of behavior according to the rules of virtue, and that plunges, goliardically and recklessly, to experience the cynical freedom and enjoy the disenchanted life.

This subject is made a show by realizing the fantastic ideas and images of those young people. The myth of the dark gothic, quoted from the popular music of Carl Orff, evocative of evil, in its most superstitious form, brings us back to representations of morally corrupt societies, which with ruthlessness resist the fear of divine punishment.

In fact, these songs overturn in an ironic and amused way the themes and attitudes of the then dominant literature: wine, women, games, the pleasures of life are unscrupulously exalted by this poetry that was born in a cultured environment and uses modules for parodic purposes. of ecclesiastical language.