Carmina Burana at The California Theatre

Symphony San Jose presents "Carmina Burana"

Who: Symphony San Jose presents

What: Carmina Burana

When: Saturday, June 3, 2023 at 8:00pm and Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 2:30pm

Where: The California Theatre, 345 South First Street, downtown San Jose, 95113. Convenient, inexpensive parking at city-owned garage one-and-a-half blocks from the theater at San Carlos Street with entrances on Second and Third streets.

Lyric soprano Maria Valdes opens the Symphony’s final program of the 2023 season as soloist in Samuel Barber’s haunting masterpiece, Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Added soloists, three choirs and the full orchestra then join Valdes in Carl Orff’s exuberant cantata Carmina Burana, based on medieval poems and songs, celebrating the sensual life.

Conductor: Carlos Vieu.  

Soloists: Maria Valdes, soprano. Martin Bakari, tenor. Brian James Myer, Baritone. Symphony San Jose Chorale, Cantabile Youth Singers. 

Chorale Director: Elena Sharkova.

Conductor: Carlos Vieu

Photo of the interior of the California Theatre by Robert Shomler.