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FULL DIE ARABISCHE NACHT (Christian Jost) Hamburg 2013 Max Börner, Brita Glaser, Svenja Liebrecht
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Die Arabische Nacht
- Composer: Jost Christian
- Libretto: based on the play by Roland Schimmelpfennig Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Forum der HfMT Hamburg, Germany
- Recorded: April 14, 2013
- Type: Staged Opera Live
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Roland Schimmelpfennig’s drama “The Arabian Night” is a modern stage fairy tale, which Christian Jost has musically expanded into a chamber opera. “Schimmelpfennig’s source material for my opera is, for me, a somnambulistic masterpiece,” the composer revealed at the world premiere in Essen’s Grillo Theater. The text tells of the summer heat in a high-rise housing estate after the collapse of the water supply. But in an apartment on the seventh floor, Franziska, a young woman with no memory, is showering. … From the dreams and nightmares of lonely, lovestruck city dwellers, Jost creates a piece that “once begun, sets everything in motion, allows it to blossom and fade, only to be reborn anew.”