When CARMINA BURANA OPEN AIR OPERA was presented to the audience for the first time in 1995, a storm of enthusiasm arose. As never before, high culture and entertainment were combined to create an overwhelming complete audiovisual piece of art.

Carl Orff (1895 - 1982) used a Latin chronic from the Bavarian monestary "Benediktbeuren"as a model text for his most popular work. In Walter Haupt's production the stirring sound characteristics bloom into a mediaeval garden of lust which abducts the audience to a foreign, sensual world of phantasy.

24 magical pictures tell a story of love and death, fortune and misfortune, appearing and fading under the eternally turning "wheel of life".