Upcoming Performances & Anniversaries
Christian Jost
Born: October 17th, 1963
Country of origin: Germany
Upcoming:
Odyssée surréale
Conductor: Christian Jost
May 30th, 2012 | Philharmonie, Kammermusiksaal - Berlin - Germany
DnA - six images of love
Conductor: Johannes Fritzsch
June 2nd, 2012 | Oper - Graz - Austria
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News
05/21/2012
Work of the Week - Christian Jost: DnA
What is the DNA of love? A question Christian Jost examines in his new work DnA – Six Images of Love - which will receive its world premiere on 24 May at Oper Graz, one of the biggest opera house in Austria. The new ballet will be choreographed by Darrel Toulon and conducted by Johannes ...
05/20/2012
What's the DnA of Dido 'n Aeneas?
It is a truly exceptional dance project which is going to be presented by the Opera Graz in late May. Choreographer Darrel Toulon has chosen Christian Jost as the composer who performs a balancing act of baroque and jazz music: DnA – six images of love constitutes one section of a large-scale ...
04/23/2012
schott aktuell - the journal 3/2012 online
A featured theme in this years Salzburg Whitsun Festival is ‘Queen Cleopatra’. The legendary, beautiful Queen, shrouded in mystery has been the subject of literature and arts. Rodion Shchedrin chose the scene of Cleopatra’s death from her dramatic life for a work commissioned by the festival. This ...
03/21/2012
World Première: Rumor by Christian Jost in Antwerp
" Amores Perros", "21 Gramm", "Babel" and "The Burning Plain": I consider these films, for which Guillermo Arriaga wrote the scripts, developed dramaturgic concepts and directed personally in the case of "The Burning Plain", as the most significant ...
03/19/2012
Work of the Week - Christian Jost: Rumor
Commissioned by the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, Christian Jost’s new opera Rumor will receive its world premiere on 23rd March 2012. Martyn Brabbins will conduct the new production which is directed by Guy Josten. Jost created his own libretto based on the novel 'Un dulce olor a muerte' ...
02/23/2012
schott aktuell - the journal 2/2012 online
Hymns and their close relations odes and dithyrambs provide artistic expression for mankind’s desire to celebrate and sublimate existence, liberating us from the limitations of everyday existence and lifting us towards universal and even transcendental principles. In ancient times, the hymn ...
02/09/2012
World première: Hamlet-Echos by Christian Jost
A CD project with the mezzo-soprano Stella Doufexis, viola player Pauline Sachse and pianist Daniel Heide provided the opportunity for Christian Jost to return to his opera Hamlet which had been premiered in 2009. The resulting work Hamlet- Echos blends and fuses speeches by ...
12/23/2011
schott aktuell - the journal 1/2012 online
For Schott it is with particular pride that we look forward to the world’s celebrations of Wagner’s bicentenary in 2013. In anticipation of this event, we have been busy adding to our Richard Wagner Complete Edition: new urtext-vocal scores based to the Complete Edition of The Flying Dutchman in ...
10/24/2011
Work of the Week - Christian Jost: Mikropolis
It's strange for an animal to play the lead role in an Opera—but it is exactly the premise on which Christian Jost has based his new work, Mikropolis : The Insect Opera . On October 30th, 2011, this children’s opera will be premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin with the composer conducting. ...
08/24/2011
schott aktuell - the journal 5/2011 online
Stage Animals Scientists estimate that there are 1,367,555 animal species currently known on earth. Insects and spiders constitute the largest group by far with a total exceeding a million different species. The figure is somewhat more modest in the world of theatre, or to be more precise, ...
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