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Natasha

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Natasha

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  • Mon, 11 August 2025, 14:00
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  • Wed, 13 August 2025, 14:00
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  • Fri, 15 August 2025, 18:30
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  • Sun, 17 August 2025, 14:00
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2024/2025 SEASON

New Production / Commissioned Work, World Premiere

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Music by Hosokawa Toshio
Opera in 1 Act
Sung in Japanese, German, Ukrainian and other languages with English and Japanese surtitles

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Commissioned by New National Theatre Tokyo with the support of the
ジーメンス財団

Endorsed by
Goethe-Institut

11 Aug - 17 Aug, 2025 ( 4 Performances )

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Running time is approx. 2 hours and 30 mins including an interval.(Updated 2 May)

Booking Opens: Sat, 17 May 2025, 10:00am

DETAILS

This new opera work by Hosokawa Toshio is staged as the third in Artistic Director Ono's series of commissioned works from Japanese composers. Hosokawa Toshio is a leading composer of contemporary music who has created commissioned work for the world's major orchestras, musical festivals and opera houses. Natasha is the first opera by Hosokawa to be staged at the NNTT since Matsukaze in 2018, as well as his second opera to be world premiered by Ono Kazushi, the first being Hanjo, commissioned by the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, in 2004.

Reconsidering the relationship between humans and nature, Hosokawa Toshio's music is a kind of prayer or requiem. Especially after the 2011 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake, his works address humans' repetitive history of destruction, drawing particular attention to nature's fearsomeness and to the human arrogance of forgetting the awe nature deserves. Globally acclaimed author Tawada Yoko, who writes novels in both Japanese and German that examine the world from a German base and highlight themes of national borders and languages, is working on the libretto for the new work. The story focuses on an encounter between Natasha, a wandering immigrant driven out of her hometown, and a young man named Arato, as well as a Mephistopheles-like figure who shows and leads the pair through various scenes of human hells. Multilingual with Japanese, German and Ukrainian languages, the opera compares and contrasts the origins of modern civilization and humanity. The groans of the endangered earth resonate deeply throughout this opera that depicts destruction and hope with multiculturalism as the key to finding a path forward.

SYNOPSIS

Moaning of the sea and the universe. Arato is searching for an entrance to the underworld. He visits a beach and meets a woman, Natasha, who has left her homeland. Although Arato and Natasha do not speak the same language, they are able to convey their names. Suddenly a strange figure appears, introducing himself as the grandson of Mephistopheles, and he guides Arato and Natasha through various hells of our time.

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CREATIVE TEAM & CAST

CREATIVE TEAM

Libretto by TAWADA Yoko
Composed by HOSOKAWA Toshio
Conductor: ONO Kazushi
Production: Christian RÄTH
Set Design: Christian RÄTH, Daniel UNGER
Costume Design: Mattie ULLRICH
Lighting Design: Rick FISHER
Video Design: Clemens WALTER
Electronic Sound Design: ARIMA Sumihisa
Choreographer: Catherine GALASSO

CAST

Natasha: Ilse EERENS
Arato: YAMASHITA Hiroka
Mephistos Enkel: Christian MIEDL
Frau A: MORIYA Mari
Frau B: TOMIHIRA Akiko
Chinese businessman: TANG Jun Bo

Saxophonist: OISHI Masanori
Electric guitarist: YAMADA Gaku

Chorus Master : TOMIHIRA Kyohei
Chorus : New National Theatre Chorus
Orchestra: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

  • CREATIVE TEAM
  • CAST
  • HOSOKAWA Toshio
    Composed by
    HOSOKAWA Toshio
    TAWADA Yoko
    Libretto by
    TAWADA Yoko
    ONO Kazushi
    Conductor
    ONO Kazushi
    Christian RÄTH
    Production
    Christian RÄTH
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    Natasha
    Ilse EERENS

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    Arato
    YAMASHITA Hiroka
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    Mephistos Enkel
    Christian MIEDL
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    Frau A
    MORIYA Mari
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    Frau B
    TOMIHIRA Akiko
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    Chinese businessman
    TANG Jun Bo
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    Saxophonist
    OISHI Masanori

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    Electric guitarist
    YAMADA Gaku

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    ¥26,400
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    ¥22,000
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  • B
    ¥15,400
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  • C
    ¥9,900
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  • D
    ¥6,600
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  • Z
    ¥1,650
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Booking Opens: Sat, 17 May 2025, 10:00am

Booking Z seats (Day tickets) 1,650 yen

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