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NNTT at Home - Asters

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Music by NISHIMURA Akira
Opera in 2 Acts
Sung in Japanese with English surtitles

Performed on February 24, 2019
ActⅠ: 65 mins / ActⅡ: 60 mins
Until 29 May, 14:00pm JST

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SYNOPSIS

The story begins with the wedding ceremony of a young governor Muneyori to Princess Utsuro, daughter of a powerful family. It's an arranged marriage and there is no love between Muneyori and his sexually uninhibited wife. He was born into a distinguished family of poets, but he has abandoned poetry to pursue archery, much to the rage of his father. His uncle and archery teacher Yumimaro tells him that while he is still under the influence of poetry, he cannot master the skill of the two-arrow technique: the "arrow of knowledge" followed by the "arrow of death". He demonstrates this by killing Princess Utsuro's lover, and Muneyori follows and kills her next lover, but she is unconcerned. Each time he kills, he orders for Asters to planted, a flower associated with never forgetting. Meanwhile, his servant Tonai is plotting to gain power by becoming intimate with Princess Utsuro. One day on a hunt, Muneyori meets a mysterious woman named Chigusa.

Muneyori is seduced by Chigusa, but on a moonlight evening he discovers that she is a fox transformed into a woman. Through her magical powers, he masters the third arrow, the "demon arrow" and uses it to kill his uncle Yumimaro. Tonai is finally united with Princess Utsuro and attempts to overthrow his master and become the governor. Meanwhile, Muneyori goes into the mountain with Chigusa in search of day-lilies, also called "flower of forgetfulness". In the mountains lives the sculptor Heita, who carves the face of the Buddha on the side of the mountain. When Muneyori shoots an arrow into the face of the Buddha, the whole cliff crumbles, and he too is dragged to death.

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CREATIVE TEAM & CAST

CREATIVE TEAM

Original by: ISHIKAWA Jun
Libretto by: SASAKI Mikiro
Music by: NISHIMURA Akira

Conductor: ONO Kazushi
Production: OIDA Yoshi
Set Design: Tom SCHENK
Costume Design: Richard HUDSON
Lighting Design: Lutz DEPPE
Choreographer: MAEDA Kiyomi
Supervisor: CHOKI Seiji

CAST

Muneyori: TAKADA Tomohiro
Heita: ONUMA Toru
Princess Utsuro: SHIMIZU Kasumi
Chigusa: USUKI Ai
Tonai: MURAKAMI Toshiaki
Yumimaro: KONO Katsunori
Father: OYAMA Yojiro

Chorus: New National Theatre Chorus
Orchestra: Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

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  • NISHIMURA Akira
    Music
    NISHIMURA Akira
    ONO Kazushi
    Conductor
    ONO Kazushi
    OIDA Yoshi
    Production
    OIDA Yoshi
  • TAKADA Tomohiro
    Muneyori
    TAKADA Tomohiro
    ONUMA Toru
    Heita
    ONUMA Toru
    SHIMIZU Kasumi
    Princess Utsuro
    SHIMIZU Kasumi
    USUKI Ai
    Chigusa
    USUKI Ai
    MURAKAMI Toshiaki
    Tonai
    MURAKAMI Toshiaki
    KONO Katsunori
    Yumimaro
    KONO Katsunori
    OYAMA Yojiro
    Father
    OYAMA Yojiro
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