Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg

The action of the play takes place in the 19th century. The main hero, the young Norwegian Peer Gynt, is a dreamy adventurer. Everything is ruined around his parents' house because he did not like working, although his mother, the widow Aase, seeks to guide him in the right direction. Finding out that Ingrida's wedding is in the village, Peer Gynt goes there. At the wedding, he meets the young Solveig, who, alone in the crowd, looks at him with sympathy.

Because the bride Ingrid had locked herself in the attic, not wanting to marry the young man chosen by her parents, Peer Gynt decides to kidnap her and run away with her to the mountains. When Ingrid asks him to marry her, he chases her away, her freedom being more pleasing but also because her heart for Solveig had sprouted in her heart. The whole village follows in the footsteps of Peer Gynt. Running in the depths of the forest, he meets various fantastic characters, in whose company he reaches the cave of the king of the mountains, where the action transposes us into a fairytale atmosphere.

In the depths of the forest he builds a wooden house, where Solveig finds him. He leaves her there and goes to her parents' house, where her mother was seriously ill. After her death, Peer Gynt went out into the world, wandering from country to country, amassing a huge fortune. We find him in an oasis in the desert, as a false prophet, where he attends the dance of Anitra, the daughter of a Bedouin leader.

Abandoned by Anitra, he embarks on his journey. In his old age he returns home, but much poorer, losing all his wealth during a shipwreck. Wandering through the native forests, he feels that the end is near and when he has to account for allegorical beings, symbolizing man's conscience, about the good and evil he has done in life, he understands that in his desire to free himself from all prejudices and to he found himself, he wasted his life in vain. No one wants to testify that he would have done well in life, thus losing his soul. With the last of his strength, he arrives in front of the house where he left his girlfriend in his youth. Solveig is waiting for him calmly.

The Peer Gynt adventurer dies with his head in Solveig's arms, forgiven and calm, thus finding himself only in the last moment of his life.

Carmina Burana by Carl Orff

The main theme of "Carmina Burana" is the vulnerability and fragility of people in the face of imminent fate. The paper is divided into 4 thematic sections:

- Destiny;
- Spring and the joy of awakening nature to life;
- Tavern, as an unlimited form of unceasing and diverse desires;
- Love in all its aspects, the most intense feelings that can often lead to unfulfilled desires. Ballet ends as it began under the sign of destiny with its power that demands to be satisfied.

There is no real story in Carmina Burana. The work begins with all the dancers on stage who feel threatened by the destructive power above their heads.

The second scene brings to the fore 20 men caught in a furious circular dance, a movement that is, in fact, the constant battle and revolt of people against the injustice of fate.

The next section of the play is about the joy of the people and the coming of spring. Four couples are caught in a sensual dance shrouded in the warmth of the sun, joined by a group of young girls, who discover their bodily desires. The scene ends with a vital duo, full of harmony and the joy of life.

The next part, "In the Tavern", talks about all the sexual desire, almost torturous that dominates the whole choreographic framework. Due to the religious climate marked by violence, aggression and hatred, the atmosphere of repression becomes strong, being represented in this picture by a male role and a trio of monks. The following scenes are a continuation of the carnal desires present in this section.

The next section, on the other hand, talks about love or, rather, about the strong desire for unfulfilled love. Three different solos present these states of melancholy, sadness and dreaming.

In the last part of the choreographic work, an episodic and mysterious presence, Fortuna, now becomes dominant. She is enigmatic, dual in nature. Raised as an idol, she is recognized as the sovereign of all human destinies. After its release, humanity is once again forced to dissolve in the face of the almighty, threatening force that presses upon all mankind, closing the ballet as it began, in a cyclical return of events.