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De temporum fine comœdia (The comedy of the end of time) is an opera-oratory with music by Carl Orff. This is his last great work and the one that took to the maximum his searches on the choral rhythm, the percussive structure and the opposition between polyphony, homophony and antifonía.

The work was premiered in 1973 at the Salzburg Festival by Herbert von Karajan, with an aerópago of renowned soloists (with Christa Ludwig and Josef Greindl). It is only rarely interpreted, in relation to the complexity of his writing, of the heaviness of his demands in terms of cash, and of the unpleasant character of his extremely violent but repetitive music. They stand out, however, in opposition and so much better, two sublime moments: the triple call of Satan "Pater, peccavi" ("Father, I have sinned") punctuated by the mute trumpet scansions, and the final canon for highs. p>

In 1977, the composer reworked the work, but this new version was unknown. It is a work of Orff little represented. In the statistics of Operabase appears with only one representation in the period 2005-2010.

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