O Fortuna topped a 2009 list of the most-played classical music of the previous 75 years in the United Kingdom. O Fortuna "O Fortuna" is a medieval Latin Goliardic poem written early in the 13th century, part of the collection known as the "Carmina Burana". It is a complaint about Fortuna, the inexorable fate that rules both gods and mortals in Roman and Greek mythology. In 1935–36, "O Fortuna" was set to music by German composer Carl Orff as a part of "", the opening and closing movement of his cantata "Carmina Burana". It was first staged by the Frankfurt Opera on
Lily Burana Lily Burana Lily Burana is an American writer whose publications include the memoir "I Love a Man in Uniform: A Memoir of Love, War, and Other Battles" (Weinstein Books, 2009), the novel "Try" (St. Martin's Press, 2006) and "Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America" (Miramax Books, 2001). "I Love a Man in Uniform" won the ELLE Magazine Reader's Prize in May 2009. "Strip City" was named one of the Best Books of the Year by "Entertainment Weekly", "Salon," "New York Newsday", and "The Rocky Mountain News". In 2008, "Entertainment Weekly" published a feature called "So You Want to