Christof Loy

Christof Loy (born 5 December 1962) is a German stage director especially for
Christof Loy
opera, whose work received several awards. A free-lance director, he has staged
operas from Baroque to premieres of new works at major European opera houses Born 5 December 1962
and festivals. He is known for directing works by Mozart. Essen, Germany
Education Folkwangschule
Occupation Opera director
Awards Director of the Year
Contents
Der Faust
1 Career
International Opera
2 Opera productions Awards
3 Awards
Website www.christof-loy.de
4 References
5 External links

Career
Born in Essen, the son of architect Horst Loy and a translator, Loy began studies of opera directing at theFolkwangschule with Dieter
Blter-Marell at the age of 14. He received the Folkwang-Preis award for his first staged work, Pimpinone.[1] He studied in Essen
until 1982 and continued his studies at the Munich University, including science of the theatre, art history, and Italian studies.[2] In
1984, Loy began work as an assistant at the Musiktheater im Revier, where he collaborated with Dietrich Hilsdorf and Jaroslav
.[3]
Chundela, among others. In 1986, he moved to theStaatstheater Wiesbaden, and since 1990 he has worked as a freelance director

He made his debut at theRoyal Opera House in 2002 with Ariadne auf Naxos, conducted by Antonio Pappano who was then the new
music director. He also staged there Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Alban Berg's Lulu and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.[2] He
directed Mussorgski's Khovanshchina at the Dutch National Opera, Handel's Alcina and Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the
Opernhaus Zrich, Verdi's Macbeth at the Grand Thtre de Genve, Britten's Peter Grimes at the Theater an der Wien, Janek's
Jenfa at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss at theRoyal Swedish Opera, Mozart's Cos fan tutte[2] and
Don Giovanni,[4] and Arabella by Richard Strauss at the Frankfurt Opera, his Daphne at the Theater Basel, and Handel's Theodora
for the Salzburg Festival.[2] In 2017, he directed the premiere of Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini's Edward II. at the Deutsche Oper
Berlin.[5]

Among other awards, his staging of Mozart's Cos fan tutte at the Frankfurt Opera earned him the prize Der Faust in the category
direction in music theatre (Regie Musiktheater) in 2008.[6]

Opera productions
Claudio Monteverdi

L'Orfeo (2001 Dsseldorf)[7]

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria(2003 Dsseldorf)[8]
L'incoronazione di Poppea(2004 Deutsche Oper am Rhein)[9]

G. F. Handel

Alcina (2002 Hamburg, 2014Opernhaus Zrich)[2]

Saul (2003 Bavarian State Opera)[3]
 Giulio Cesare (Theater an der Wien)[3]
Theodora (Salzburg Festival).[2]

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Iphignie en Aulide (Glyndebourne Festival)[3]

Joseph Haydn

Armida (2007 Salzburg Festival)[10]

W. A. Mozart

La finta semplice (2006 Frankfurt Opera)[11]

La finta giardiniera (1998 Dsseldorf)[12]
Lucio Silla (Copenhagen Opera)[3]
Die Entfhrung aus dem Serail(1992 Freiburg,[12] 1999 Brssel,[12] 2003 Frankfurt)[13]
Le nozze di Figaro (1998 Brussels)[12]
Don Giovanni (1999 Graz Opera,[12] 2014 Frankfurt)[4]
Cos fan tutte (2008 Frankfurt Opera)[2]
Die Zauberflte (1990 Stuttgart,[12] 2004 Deutsche Oper am Rhein)[3]
La clemenza di Tito (2006 Frankfurt)[14]

Vincenzo Bellini

I Capuleti e i Montecchi(Opernhaus Zrich)[2]

La straniera (Opernhaus Zrich)[3]

Gioachino Rossini

Il turco in Italia (2005 Hamburg)[12]

L'italiana in Algeri (2001 Deutsche Oper am Rhein)[12]
La donna del lago (2010 Grand Thtre de Genve)[12]

Gaetano Donizetti

Lucia di Lammermoor (1999 Dsseldorf,[12] Royal Opera House)[2]

Roberto Devereux (2004 Munich)[3]
Lucrezia Borgia (2010 Munich)[3]

Hector Berlioz

La damnation de Faust(2000 Bremen)[12]

Les Troyens (2005 Deutsche Oper am Rhein)[12]

Richard Wagner

Tannhuser (1995 Musiktheater im Revier, Gelsenkirchen)[12]

Tristan und Isolde (Royal Opera House)[3]
Parsifal (Royal Swedish Opera)[3]

Giuseppe Verdi

Macbeth(Grand Thtre de Genve)[2]

Les vpres siciliennes (Dutch National Opera)[3]
Don Carlos (2000 Duisburg)[12]
Falstaff) (Deutsche Oper Berlin)[3]

Jacques Offenbach

La belle Hlne (2005 Deutsche Oper am Rhein)[12]

 Les contes d'Hoffmann(2004 Deutsche Oper am Rhein)[12]

Charles Gounod

Faust (2005 Frankfurt)[12]

Peter Tchaikovky

Eugen Onegin (2001 La Monnaie)[12]

Modest Mussorgski

Khovanshchina (Dutch National Opera)[2]

Jules Massenet

Werther (1996 Bremen)[12]

Manon (1997 Dsseldorf)[12]

Giacomo Puccini

La bohme (2002 Brussels)[12]

La fanciulla del West (Royal Swedish Opera)[3]

Pietro Mascagni / Ruggero Leoncavallo

Cavalleria rusticana und Pagliacci (2003 Dsseldorf)[12]

Leo Janek

Jej pastorkya (Jenfa) (2012 Deutsche Oper Berlin)[3]

Richard Strauss

Der Rosenkavalier (2001 Brussels,[12] Royal Swedish Opera)[2]

Ariadne auf Naxos (2002 Royal Opera House)[2]
Arabella (Dutch National Opera)[3]
Tristan und Isolde (Royal Opera House)[3]
Die Frau ohne Schatten(2011 Salzburg Festival)[3]
Intermezzo (2009 Theater an der Wien)[3]
Daphne (Theater Basel([2]

Franz Lehr

Die lustige Witwe (1992 Ulm)[12]

Benjamin Britten

Peter Grimes (2015 Theater an der Wien,International Opera Awards 2016) [2][3]

Alban Berg

Lulu (Royal Opera House)[2]

Hans Werner Henze

Der Prinz von Homburg(2009 Theater an der Wien)[15]

Die Bassariden (Munich)[3]

Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini (* 1971)

Der Sandmann (2012 Theater Basel)[3]

Edward II. (2017 Deutsche Oper Berlin)[5]
Awards
1982: Folkwang-Preis[1]
2001: Musikpreis of Duisburg[16]
2003: Nomination Laurence Olivier Award[17]
2003: Director of the Year (Regisseur des Jahres) by Opernwelt[17]
2004: Director of the Year[17]
2008: Director of the Year[17]
2008: Der Faust for Cos fan tutte at the Frankfurt Opera[6]
2017: International Opera Awards as best opera director[2]

References
1. Erenz, Benedikt (21 November 2012)."Aida traf / Ein Zwanzigjhriger fhrt Opernregie"(http://www.zeit.de/1982/46/
aida-traf). Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 2 October 2017.
2. "Christof Loy" (http://www.roh.org.uk/people/christof-loy). Royal Opera House. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
3. "Christof Loy" (https://www.deutscheoperberlin.de/en_EN/ensemble/57161) (in German). Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Retrieved 10 October 2017.
4. Lange, Joachim (31 May 2015)."Das Don-Giovanni-Syndrom In Frankfurt inszeniert Christof Loy einen dster
reflektierenden "Don Giovanni" " (http://www.nmz.de/online/das-don-giovanni-syndrom-in-frankfurt-inszeniert-christof
-loy-einen-duester-reflektierenden-d). Neue Musikzeitung (in German). Retrieved 2 October 2017.
5. "Scartazzinis Oper "Edward II." in Berlin / Urauf
fhrung" (http://www.zeit.de/news/2017-02/20/musik-scartazzinis-ope
r-edward-ii-in-berlin-20120209). Die Zeit (in German). 20 February 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
6. "Der Faust 2008" (http://www.buehnenverein.de/de/netzwerke-und-projekte/der-faust/der-faust-2008.html)(in
German). Bhnenverein. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
7. Menzel, Gerhard (19 October 2001)."L'Orfeo" (http://www.omm.de/cds/musiktheater/DOR-orfeo.html) (in German).
Online Musik Magazin. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
8. Menzel, Gerhard (18 June 2003)."Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria"(http://www.omm.de/veranstaltungen/musiktheater200
22003/D-il-ritorno-d-ulisse-in-patria.html)(in German). Online Musik Magazin. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
9. Menzel, Gerhard (14 March 2004)."L'incoronazione di Poppea"(http://www.omm.de/veranstaltungen/musiktheater2
0032004/D-l-incoronazione-di-poppea.html)(in German). Online Musik Magazin. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
10. Spinola, Julia (30 July 2007)."Sinn und Sinnlichkeit"(http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/salzburger-festspiele-sinn-u
nd-sinnlichkeit-1464138.html). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung(in German). Retrieved 12 October 2017.
11. Wittstock, Uwe (28 June 2006)."Mozarts "Finta semplice" in Frankfurt/M."(https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article2257
79/Mozarts-Finta-semplice-in-Frankfurt-M.html)(in German). Die Welt. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
12. "Inszenierungen" (http://www.christof-loy.de/men03/head03f.htm)(in German). Christof Loy. Retrieved 11 October
2017.
13. Hierholzer, Michael (17 October 2003)."Zwei Dreiecksbeziehungen: Christof Loy inszeniert Mozarts "Entfhrung aus
dem Serail" in Frankfurt"(http://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/kultur/zwei-dreiecksbeziehungen-christof-loy-inszenie
rt-mozarts-entfuehrung-aus-dem-serail-in-frankfurt-1134317.html) . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung(in German).
Retrieved 11 October 2017.
14. Wurzel, Christoph (27 January 2006)."La clemenza di Tito" (http://www.omm.de/veranstaltungen/musiktheater20052
006/F-titus.html) (in German). Online Musik Magazin. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
15. Becker, Roberto (12 November 2009)."L'Orfeo" (http://www.omm.de/veranstaltungen/musiktheater20092010/WIEN-
TW-der-prinz-von-homburg.html)(in German). Online Musik Magazin. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
16. "Christof Loy" (https://operamrhein.de/en_EN/person/christof-loy
.46342) (in German). Deutsche Oper am Rhein.
Retrieved 5 October 2017.
17. "Christof Loy" (http://www.oper-frankfurt.de/de/ensemble-gaeste-teams/regie/?detail=111)(in German). Frankfurt
Opera. Retrieved 5 October 2017.

External links
 Official website
Christof Loy Operabase
Christof Loy on IMDb
International Opera Award fr Christof Loy Deutsche Welle

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