Carmina Burana

PNB closes its season with a tremendous duo of repertory works. Set to Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto Alexei Ratmansky’s crowd-pleasing Concerto DSCH, an “endlessly suspenseful construction [with] passages of breathtaking dance brilliance” (New York Times) returns, dazzling eyes and ears with its playful, propulsive energy and glimpses of storytelling. In Kent Stowell's primal Carmina Burana, a grand-scale synthesis of dance, chorus, and orchestra, the famous cantata’s poems materialize as the entire Company unites song and score for a jubilant communal experience under Carmina’s colossal golden wheel of fortune.