Sara Macliver New Zealand and Hong Kong. She has performed with Pinchgut Opera in "The Fairy-Queen", toured with Musica Viva, Australia Bach Ensemble and worked with Richard Egarr on Joseph Haydn's "The Creation" in Perth. Other projects include a program based on the life of Jane Austen, with pianist Bernadette Balkus and Musica Viva. She also appeared in Pinchgut Opera's production of Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo" to great critical acclaim. Sara Macliver has made a number of recordings for ABC Classics including Gabriel Fauré's "Requiem" and "The Birth of Venus", Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana", the title track for a trilogy of Christmas albums and
Carmina Burana poems appear not to be derivative works. The text is mostly an anonymous work, and it appears to have been written by Goliards and vagrants who were either theology students travelling between universities or clerics who had not yet received a prebendary. Presumably these individuals scrounged and begged for a living, which might explain why a good portion of the moral songs are dedicated to condemning those who aren't generous alms givers (e.g., CB 3, 9, 11, and 19–21). The authors demonstrate a broad knowledge of ancient mythology, which they employ to rich effect through metonymy and allegorical references, and