Christof Loy

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Christof Loy (born December 5, 1962 in Essen ) is a German director .

life and work

Christof Loy was born as the son of the architect Horst Loy and an interpreter. He attended the Burggymnasium in Essen , where he began studying opera directing at the Folkwang School with Dieter Bülter-Marell at the age of 14 . As a high school graduate, he staged for the first time and received the internationally coveted Folkwang Prize of the university for his Pimpinone performance. Loy then studied at the Folkwang Hochschule until 1982 and then until 1984 in Munich as part of a degree in general theater studies, art history and Italian philology.

In 1984 Loy became assistant director at the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen , where he worked with Dietrich Hilsdorf and Jaroslav Chundela , among others . In 1986 he moved to the Wiesbaden State Theater and in 1990 became self-employed as a freelance director for opera and drama .

Until the mid-1990s, Loy produced many productions at the Stuttgart State Theater in the field of drama and opera, then also in Freiburg im Breisgau , Bremen and Gelsenkirchen . Loy was invited to the 1997 Berlin Theatertreffen with his versions of Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale and the Marivaux comedy Triumph der Liebe (Stuttgart premiere 1996) .

He staged at the Düsseldorf Deutsche Oper am Rhein from 1997 and at the Münchner Kammerspiele from 1998 (for example the German premiere of Patrick Marbers Hautnah ). In 1999 and 2000, Loy staged two Mozart operas in Graz. But the Deutsche Oper am Rhein became his “artistic home”. From 2001 to 2004 he developed his Monteverdi cycle there with the three surviving operas by the composer. Another important stop was the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. There Loy found artistic companions who would shape his future career: Bernd Loebe , who worked as artistic director in Brussels and moved to the position of artistic director at the Frankfurt Opera , implemented a number of projects with Loy. Brussels' then General Music Director Antonio Pappano took over the Covent Garden Opera at the beginning of the 2002/2003 season and opened the season with a production by Loy.

In the meantime, Loy has also staged several times at the Theater an der Wien and at the Salzburg Festival . His first production at the Deutsche Oper Berlin came out in 2012, and productions in Zurich are also planned for the coming season.

The project “Mozart in Paris” was created in 2005 as a co-production of the Stuttgart State Theater, the Hamburg State Opera and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, narrated by Christof Loy based on letters from the Mozart family.

Loy is partnered with the author and dramaturge Thomas Jonigk .

Productions

Opera productions (selection, chronologically by composer)

Claudio Monteverdi
georg Friedrich Handel
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Gioachino Rossini
Gaetano Donizetti
Hector Berlioz
Richard Wagner
Giuseppe Verdi
Jacques Offenbach
Charles Gounod
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Jules Massenet
Giacomo Puccini
Pietro Mascagni / Ruggero Leoncavallo
Leoš Janáček
Richard Strauss
Franz Lehár
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Benjamin Britten
Hans Werner Henze
Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini (* 1971)

Drama productions (selection)

William Shakespeare
Pierre Marivaux
Maxim Gorky
Patrick Marber

Film and television recordings (selection)

Loy's work has been published in part as film documents: L'Orfeo (Speranza Classics), Die Entführung aus dem Serail (hrMedia) and Roberto Devereux (Deutsche Grammophon, from June 2006), Lucrezia Borgia (Munich) 2010.

Awards

  • 1982 Folkwang Prize
  • 1998 “Stern” of the Münchner Abendzeitung for the staging of Hautnah
  • 2001 Music Prize of the City of Duisburg
  • 2003 nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award
  • 2003 “Director of the Year”, award from Opernwelt magazine
  • 2004 “Director of the Year”, award from Opernwelt magazine
  • 2008 “Director of the Year”, award from Opernwelt magazine
  • 2008 German Theater Prize Der Faust for his production of “Così fan tutte” at the Frankfurt Opera
  • 2017: International Opera Awards for best opera director

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See personal homepage of Christof Loy .
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ Joachim Lange: The Don Giovanni Syndrome , accessed on May 31, 2015.
  4. ^ The Sandman, opera by Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini. Homepage Theater Basel ( Memento from September 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Loy, Christof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH eat