Christof Loy
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
- L'Orfeo (2001 Düsseldorf)
- Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (2003 Düsseldorf)
- L'incoronazione di Poppea (2004 Deutsche Oper am Rhein)
- georg Friedrich Handel
- Alcina (2002 Hamburg), (2014 Zurich Opera House )
- Saul (2003 Munich, Bavarian State Opera)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- La finta semplice (2006 Frankfurt Opera)
- La finta giardiniera (1998 Düsseldorf)
- The Abduction from the Seraglio (1992 Freiburg, 1999 Brussels, 2003 Frankfurt a. M.)
- Le nozze di Figaro (1998 Brussels)
- Don Giovanni (1999 Graz)
- Don Giovanni (2014 Oper Frankfurt a. M.)
- The Magic Flute (1990 Stuttgart, 2004 Deutsche Oper am Rhein)
- La clemenza di Tito (2006 Frankfurt)
- Gioachino Rossini
- Il turco in Italia (2005 Hamburg)
- L'italiana in Algeri
- La donna del lago (2010 Grand Théâtre de Genève )
- Gaetano Donizetti
- Lucia di Lammermoor (1999 Düsseldorf)
- Roberto Devereux (2004 Munich, Bavarian State Opera)
- Lucrezia Borgia (2010 Munich, Bavarian State Opera)
- Hector Berlioz
- La damnation de Faust (2000 Bremen)
- Les Troyens (2005 Deutsche Oper am Rhein)
- Richard Wagner
- Tannhäuser (1995 Gelsenkirchen)
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Don Carlos (2000 Duisburg)
- Jacques Offenbach
- La belle Hélène (2005 Deutsche Oper am Rhein)
- Les contes d'Hoffmann (2004 Deutsche Oper am Rhein)
- Charles Gounod
- Faust (2005 Frankfurt)
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Eugene Onegin
- Queen of Spades (2001 Bremen)
- Jules Massenet
- Giacomo Puccini
- La Bohème (2002 Brussels)
- Pietro Mascagni / Ruggero Leoncavallo
- Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci (2003 Düsseldorf)
- Leoš Janáček
- Její pastorkyňa ( Jenůfa ) (2012 Deutsche Oper Berlin )
- Richard Strauss
- Der Rosenkavalier (2001 Brussels)
- Ariadne on Naxos (2002 London)
- The woman without a shadow (2011 Salzburg Festival )
- Intermezzo (2009 Theater an der Wien )
- Franz Lehár
- The Merry Widow (1992 Ulm)
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- Benjamin Britten
- Peter Grimes (1993 Bremen, 2015 Theater an der Wien , received the International Opera Award 2016)
- Hans Werner Henze
- The Prince of Homburg (2010 Theater an der Wien)
- Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini (* 1971)
- The Sandman in nine scenes (2012 Theater Basel )
- Edward II. , February 2017, Deutsche Oper Berlin, conductor: Thomas Søndergård .
Drama productions (selection)
- William Shakespeare
- Pierre Marivaux
- Maxim Gorky
- Patrick Marber
- Up close (1998 Munich)
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
- Personal homepage of Christof Loy
- Christof Loy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See personal homepage of Christof Loy .
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Joachim Lange: The Don Giovanni Syndrome , accessed on May 31, 2015.
- ^ The Sandman, opera by Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini. Homepage Theater Basel ( Memento from September 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Loy, Christof |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director |
DATE OF BIRTH | 5th December 1962 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |