03/02/2013

Christian Jost: World Première of Chamber Opera "Heart Sutra" in Taipei

On 2 March Christian Jost's new chamber opera Heart Sutra is receiving its world première at the National Concert Hall in Taiwan's capital Taipei. The libretto by Joyce Chiou is based on the poem "The Love of a Falling Leaf" and the short story "Heart Sutra" by Chinese-American ...

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02/23/2013

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Heinz Holliger’s new song cycle Lunea, setting 23 sentences of Nikolaus Lenau and premiering in Zurich on 21 March 2013 with baritone Christian Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Huber, has us thinking about lieder, the magical connection between poetry and music and its enduring vitality in the ...

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11/26/2012

Work of the Week - Christian Jost: Taipei Horizon

Composer in Residence of the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra for the current season, German composer Christian Jost has completed a joint commission by the orchestras. Taipei Horizon will premiere on 1 December under conductor Marc Albrecht ...

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10/24/2012

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November and December are in some ways the orchestral months: rich and satisfying concerts designed to keep us cheerful and stimulated as the nights draw in, followed by the special holiday celebrations. The Deutsche Orchestertag weekend in Berlin (4./5.11) this time prompts us to look at orchestral ...

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06/26/2012

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This summer’s festival season proves to be no exception. At the Salzburg Festival, Heinz Holliger conducts the World Première of his Janus Double Concerto for violin, viola and small orchestra, featuring Thomas Zehetmair, Ruth Killius and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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04/23/2012

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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' ...

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