The prequel to a work in the same genre setting poems of Catullus, this work opens and closes with the oft-excerpted O Fortuna.
In one section of this work, women sing of their desire for red cheeks so that young men will unwilling love them, and another section claims that well-being fades into nothing and fate is monstrous and empty. Estuans Interius opens the section In Taberna, and Ave Formosissima comprises the section Blanziflor et Helena. The prequel to a work in the same genre setting poems of Catullus, this work opens and closes with the oft-excerpted O Fortuna. For 10 points, name this cantata based on a collection of medieval poems composed by Carl Orff.
In one section of this work, women sing of their desire for red cheeks so that young men will unwilling love them, and another section claims that well-being fades into nothing and fate is monstrous and empty.
Carmina Burana