Fear – scenic oratorio 5 gates to a journey into the depths of fear
Category archives: Bühne
DnA – six images of love
Ballet with words by E. E. Cummings and Nahum Tate
Vipern
A murderous desire in four acts Opera requires a completely different compositional approach than orchestral works. Composition can essentially be divided into two categories: composing with and without text. Composing an opera forces the composer to address the three major questions of text treatment at every moment of the composition: am I working with, against …
Death Knocks
One-act opera based on the play of the same name by Woody Allen for mezzo-soprano, baritone and chamber ensemble, German text version by Esther Ferrier New York, somewhere in the middle of Manhattan. The streets pulsate with the hustle and bustle of a lively city, while successful textile manufacturer Nat Ackermann settles down to relax …
Die arabische Nacht
The Arabian Night Opera based on the play of the same name by Roland Schimmelpfennig Christian Jost’s second opera is based on a contemporary text: Roland Schimmelpfennig’s play tells the story of five lonely people on a sultry night in the city. Somewhere in an anonymous high-rise complex, the world is falling apart. Water seems …
Hamlet
12 musical-dramatic tableaux based on William Shakespeare Jost interprets Shakespeare’s tragedy as the ‘story of a surreal journey into the inner self’. In his version, Hamlet is sung by a female voice. In this way, Jost suggests universal validity beyond individual fate. Hamlet’s long, painful search for truth and insight is a reflection of the …
Mikropolis
The adventurous insect opera Spider Natalie, ant Annabelle, housefly Kostas, horsefly Erdal, ladybird Kurt and millipede Olli have a wonderful life – they live on a grass verge in the exciting city, their food is on the street and their lives are full of crazy adventures! But then Gesine the cricket is blown by a …
Rumor
Opera in 15 scenes Christian Jost based the libretto for Rumour on the famous novel The Sweet Smell of Death by Mexican author Guillermo Arriaga. The writer, screenwriter and director is also known for his films such as 21 Grams and Babel. In a remote Mexican village, a girl named Adela is found murdered. She …
Heart Sutra
Chamber opera in 4 scenes and a prologue My chamber opera Heart Sutra is based on the short story of the same name by legendary author Eileen Chang and is a mysterious love story set in 1930s Shanghai. I must confess that I am completely enamoured with Eileen Chang, arguably the most important author in …
Lover
Music-dance-theatre for mixed chorus and percussion This piece is a form of cultural dialogue: ancient Chinese love songs meet modern American poetry, a professional European choir meets a Buddhist-inspired ensemble of drummers who are also dancers, singers and performers. Western vocal polyphony encounters the sounds of millennia-old Asian gongs and drums with diameters of up …