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 chess. Older research assumed that the manuscript was written in Benediktbeuern where it was found. Today, however, "Carmina Burana" scholars have several different ideas about the manuscript's place of origin. It is agreed that the manuscript must be from the region of central Europe where the Bavarian dialect of German is spoken due to the Middle High German phrases in the text—a region that includes parts of southern Germany, western Austria, and northern Italy. It must also be from the southern part of that region because of the Italian peculiarities of the text. The two possible locations of its origin