Does anyone know the name of this song?

[DetlefK]

The song right at the beginning. It's some kind of bombastic italian opera-piece. I can't understand the words, so I can't type them into Google.

EDIT: THANKS!

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Carmina Burana

[happybird]

2. O Fortuna

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Fortuna

[2naSalit]

3. Love that work, it's fun to perform.

I still have my copy of the score.

The above posts are correct.

[Leith]

4. Here's a version with lyrics

heh

[Iggo]

5. Best one.

[happybird]

7. That was outstanding!

Thank you for sharing! 😂

[Karadeniz]

6. It's O Fortuna, from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, a trove of medieval poems written by monks

and stashed away because of their irreligious content and discovered in the 1800's, I think. O Fortuna is about the changing nature of lady luck encountered by gamblers. There's a cute drinking song where you take a swig with every toast...it's long, so sousedom guaranteed. I especially like Ecce Gratum, about winter giving way to spring which means we should cast off our climate-induced isolation, get warm together and dedicate ourselves to love. Totus floreo is in the same vein and a jaunty tune. Dulcissime is beautiful and sounds religious, but it's not in adoration of the Virgen. Oh, those wild and crazy monks!