Carl Orff's O Fortuna Translated - Neatorama

Everybody knows O Fortuna by Carl Orff. They may not know what it's called, but they've heard it in hundreds of movies, TV programs and commercials. But do you know what it's all about?

Here's the lyric of O Fortuna, translated from Latin: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Look At This

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The internet is made of pedants.

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...which were almost all medieval drinkingsongs. One of the songs, IIRC, is about a goose being roasted.

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Actually, Carmina Burana isn't even an opera. It's a cantata based on a collection of poems of the same name.

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Well it is called "O fortuna", or more accurately "Fortuna Impeatrix Mundi" as stated above; They are talking about the name of the movement, not the entirety of the piece.

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This is NOT called O Fortuna, the opera is titled Carmina Burana

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One summer we were driving across Montana. The stretch of Hwy 12 from Forsyth to Roundup was not straight by any means, but it also was 110 miles long with no services and only one road sign.

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Obvious inspiration for the infamous Desert Bus video game, proudly proclaimed as the most boring game ever and weird basis for a PAX charities fundraising video marathon that this year raised over $600K in eight days (I think they put the actual game showing the endless road into a smaller box in the corner of the vid feed every year)

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