O Fortuna 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 8 June 1937. It opens at a slow pace with thumping drums and choir that drops quickly into
Lily Burana Across America" was a chronicle of her work as a stripper during her late teens and early twenties. Burana married an Army officer in 2002. In 2008, she began "Operation Bombshell," a burlesque class for wives of deployed soldiers. She lives in New York, and had her first child in 2014, who was baptised a Catholic. 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