2001/2002 Season Schedule of Opera & Dance

2001/2002 Season Schedule of Opera & Dance

2001/2002 season schedule (September 2001 through June 2002) of New National Theatre Tokyo opera and dance production was announced on Wednesday, 13 September 2000. 11 productions of opera, 6 productions of ballet and 4 productions of contemporary dance will be held during the said season.
Simultaneously, the Fiscal 2001 PIT OPERA series and Fiscal 2001 Educational Programme of Opera for High School Students were announced.
The details of each production are as follows. We hope you will enjoy our varieties of future production.

2001/2002 Season Opera

15(Sat) thru 27(Thu)
September 2001
8 performances

TURANDOT
Music by Giacomo Puccini (1926)
Libretto by Renato Simoni / Giuseppe Adami
Conductor: Yoshinori Kikuchi
Stage Director: Hugo de Ana
OPERA HOUSE

1(Thu) thru 8(Thu)
November 2001
6 performances

NABUCCO (première in June 1998)
Music by Giuseppe Verdi (1842)
Libretto by Temistocle Solera
Conductor: Paolo Olmi
Stage Director: Antonello Madau Diaz
OPERA HOUSE

16(Fri) thru 20(Tue)
November 2001
5 performances

DON GIOVANNI (première in January 2000)
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1787)
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
Conductor: Paul Connelly
Stage Director: Roberto de Simone
OPERA HOUSE

6(Thu) thru 15(Sat)
December 2001
6 performances

DON CARLO

Music by Guiseppe Verdi (1867)

Libretto by	François Joseph Mery / Camille du Locle (French)
	Achille de Lauzieres(Italian)

Conductor: Daniele Callegari

Stage Director: T.B.A.

co-production with Japan Opera Foundation

OPERA HOUSE

11(Fri) thru 13(Sun)
January 2002
3 performances

CHUSHINGURA
Music by Shigeaki Saegusa (1997)
Libretto by Masahiko Shimada
Conductor: Naoto Otomo
Stage Director: Masayoshi Kuriyama
co-production with Nikikai Opera Foundation
OPERA HOUSE

24(Thu) thru 27(Sun)
January 2002
4 performances

HÄNSEL UND GRETEL (première in November 1998)
Music by E. Humperdinck (1893)
Libretto by Adelheid Wette
Conductor: Hirofumi Misawa
Stage Director: Keiichi Nishizawa
OPERA HOUSE

21(Thu) February
thru 2(Sat) March 2002
4 performances

WERTHER
Music by Jules-Emile-Frédéric Massenet (1892)
Libretto by Édouard Blau / Paul Milliet / Henri Grémont Hartmann
Conductor: Alain Guingal
Stage Director: Alberto Fassini
OPERA HOUSE

26(Tue) March
thru 8(Mon) April 2002
7 performances

DIE WALKÜRE The First Evening of "Der Ring des Nibelungen"
Music and Libretto by Richard Wagner (1870)
Conductor: Jun Märkl
Stage Director: Keith Warner
OPERA HOUSE

1(Wed) thru 9(Thu)
May 2002
4 performances

SALOME (première in April 2000)
Music by Richard Strauss (1905)
The Original by Oscar Wilde / German translation by Hedwig Lachmann
Conductor: Hiroshi Wakasugi
Stage Director: August Everding
OPERA HOUSE

2(Thu) thru 11(Sat)
May 2002
6 performances

TOSCA (première in September 2000)
Music by Giacomo Puccini (1900)
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa / Luigi Illica
Conductor: Alberto Veronesi
Stage Director: Antonello Madau Diaz
OPERA HOUSE

7(Fri) thru 16(Sun)
June 2002
6 performances

CARMEN
Music by Georges Bizet (1875)
Libretto by Ludovic Halévy / Henri Meilhac
Conductor: Jacques Delacote
Stage Director: Maurizio Di Mattia
OPERA HOUSE

2001/2002 Season Ballet

ROMEO AND JULIET (choreographed by Kenneth Macmillan) (Ballet in 3 Acts) New Production
	12(Fri) thru 18(Thu) October 2001 / OPERA HOUSE / 6 Performances

CINDERELLA (choreographed by Frederick Ashton) (Ballet in 3 Acts)
	21(Fri) thru 27(Thu) December 2001 / OPERA HOUSE / 6 Performances

SWAN LAKE(Ballet in 3 Acts)
	4(Mon) thru 10(Sun) February 2002 / OPERA HOUSE / 6 Performances

MIX PROGRAMME
	Program A (16, 17)	"Les Sylphides"	Program B (19, 20)	"Symphony in C" (New Production)
		"Four Last Songs" (New Production)		"Lilac Garden"
		"Duende" (New Production)		"Duende" (New Production)

16(Sat) thru 20(Wed) March 2002 / PLAYHOUSE / 4 Performances

DON QUIXOTE (Ballet in 3 Acts)
	17(Fri) thru 22(Wed) May 2002 / OPERA HOUSE / 5 Performances

GISELLE (Ballet in 2 Acts)
	25(Tue) thru 30(Sun) June 2002 / OPERA HOUSE / 5 Performances

2001/2002 Season Contemporary Dance

Dance Planet No.9	"Metamorphosis" by Junko Kikuchi
	"Signs: Landmark" by Molissa Fenley

28(Fri) thru 30(Sun) September 2001 / THE PIT / 3 Performances

Dance Theatron No.6	"SHINRA" by Kimio Nosaka
	"Poetics of the space" by Chizu Shoda

1(Sat) thru 2(Sun) December 2001 / PLAYHOUSE / 2 Performances

Dance Planet No.10 "Anata" by Kim Itoh
	15(Fri) thru 17(Sun) February 2002 / THE PIT / 3 Performances

Dance Theatron No.7 "To Martha" by Akiko Kanda
	15(Sat) thru 16(Sun) June 2002 / PLAYHOUSE / 2 Performances

The PIT OPERA Series of Fiscal 2001

19(Thu) thru 22(Sun)
April 2001
4 performances

THE PIT OPERA 4 THE TURN OF THE SCREW
Music by Benjamin Britten (1954)
Libretto by Myfanwy Piper
Conductor: Hakaru Matsuoka
Stage Director: Rikiya Hirao
THE PIT

11(Thu) thru 14(Sun)
October 2001
4 performances

THE PIT OPERA 5 IL LINGUAGGIO DEI FIORI
Music by Renzo Rossellini (1963)
Libretto by V. Bodini
Conductor: Shigenori Miyamatsu
Stage Director: Nobuaki Imai
THE PIT

7(Thu) thru 10(Sun)
February 2002
4 performances

THE PIT OPERA 6 DIE KLUGE
Music and Libretto by Carl Orff (1943)
Conductor: Akifumi Tokito
Stage Director: Akiko Ito
THE PIT

Educational Programme of Opera for High School Students (Fiscal 2001)

10(Tue) thru 18(Wed)
July 2001
5 performances

TOSCA (première in September 2000)
Music by Giacomo Puccini (1900)
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa / Luigi Illica
Conductor: Daisuke Muranaka
Stage Director: Antonello Madau Diaz
OPERA HOUSE