2004/2005 Season Schedule of Opera

2004/2005 season schedule (September 2004 through June 2005) of New National Theatre Tokyo opera production was announced by the Artistic Director Thomas Novohradsky on Tuesday, 18 November 2003. The following 11 productions will be held during the said season.


 


2004/2005 Season Opera
September
9(Thu), 11(Sat),
13 (Mon), 15(Wed), 18(Sat),
20 (Mon), 23(Thu) 2004
OPERA HOUSE
7 performances
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA /
I PAGLIACCI (New Production)
Conductor: Ban Tetsuro
Director: Grischa Asagaroff
Orchestra: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
"CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA"
Music by Pietro Mascagni (1892)
Libretto by G.Targioni-Tozzetti / Guido Menasci
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Santuzza: Elisabetta Fiorillo
Turiddu: Attila Kiss
"I PAGLIACCI"
Music and Libretto by Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1892)
<CAST>
Canio: Sergej Larin
Nedda: Noemi Nadelmann
Tonio: Georg Tichy
Silvio: Rudolf Rosen
September 25(Sat), 28(Tue),
October 3(Sun), 6(Wed),
9(Sat) 2004
OPERA HOUSE
5 performances
LA BOHÈME (première in April 2003)
Music by Giacomo Puccini (1896)
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa / Luigi Illica
Conductor: Inoue Michiyoshi
Director: Aguni Jun
Orchestra: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
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Mimi: Adina Nitescu
Musetta: Mizusima Ikumu
Rodolfo: James Valenti
Marcello: Karl-Magnus Fredriksson
Colline: Xiaoliang Li
November 11(Thu),14(Sun),
17(Wed), 20(Sat),23(Tue)
2004
OPERA HOUSE
5 performances
ELEKTRA (New Production)
Music by Richard Strauss (1909)
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannstahl
Conductor: Ulf Schirmer
Orchestra: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
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Klytämnestra : Karan Armstrong
Elektra : Nadine Secunde
Chrysothemis: Nancy Gustafson
Aegisth: Richard Brunner
Orest: Chester Patton
November 22(Mon),
25(Thu), 28(Sun),
December 1(Wed), 4(Sat)
2004
OPERA HOUSE
5 performances
LA TRAVIATA (première in September 2002)
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
Conductor: Wakasugi Hiroshi
Director: Luca Ronconi
Orchestra: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
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Violetta Valéry: Marina Vyskvorkina
Giorgio Germont: Christopher Robertson
January 17(Mon),
20 (Thu), 23(Sun), 26(Wed),
29 (Sat) 2005
OPERA HOUSE
5 performances
MACBETH (première in May 2004)
Director: Noda Hideki
Orchestra: The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
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Macbeth: Carlos Alvarez
Lady Macbeth: Iano Tamar
February 8(Tue), 11(Fri)
14(Mon), 17(Thu)
2005
OPERA HOUSE
4 performances
LULU (New Production)
Music by Alban Berg (1937)
Conductor: Stefan Anton Reck
Director: David Pountney
Orchestra: The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
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Lulu: Sato Shinobu
Gräfin Geschwitz: Koyama Yumi
Dr. Schön: Claudio Otelli
Schigolch: Hartmut Welker
February 25(Fri), 26(Sat),
27(Sun) 2005
OPERA HOUSE
3 performances
JAPANESE WORK (New Production)
Music and Libretto by Kubo Mayako
Orchestra: The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
May 21(Mon), 23(Wed),
25 (Fri), 27(Sun),
29(Tue), 31(Thu) 2005
OPERA HOUSE
6 performances
COSI FAN TUTTE (New Production)
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1790)
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
Conductor: Dan Ettinger
Director: Kornelia Repschlaeger
Orchestra: The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
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Fiordiligi: Veronique Gens
Dorabella: Nancy Fabiola Herrera
Despina: Nakajima Akiko
Ferrando: John Ken Nuzzo
Guglielmo: Roman Trekel
Don Alfonso: Bernd Weikl
April 7(Thu), 9(Sat),
11 (Mon), 14(Thu),
17(Sun) 2005
OPERA HOUSE
5 performances
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (première in October 2003)
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
Director: Andreas Homoki
Orchestra: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
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Il Conte Almaviva: Wolfgang Brendel
La Contessa Almaviva: Emily Magee
Figaro: Maurizio Muraro
May 28(Sat), 31(Tue),
June 2(Thu), 4(Sat),
7 (Tue), 9(Thu) 2005
OPERA HOUSE
6 performances
FIDELIO (New Production)
Music by Ludwig van Beethoven (1805-14)
Libretto by J.v.Sonnleithner (The 1st edition) /
G.v.Traitschke (The 3rd edition)
Conductor: Michael Boder
Director: Marco Arturo Marelli
Orchestra: Tokyo Philharmonis Orchestra
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Leonore: Gabriele Fontana
Florestan: Thomas Moser
Don Pizarro: Peteris Eglitis
Rocco: Hans Tschammer
Marzelline: Mizushima Ikumu
June 24(Fri), 27(Mon),
30 (Thu), July 3(Sun),
6 (Wed), 9(Sat) 2005
OPERA HOUSE
6 performances
MADAMA BUTTERFLY (New Production)
Music by Giacomo Puccini (1904)
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa / Luigi Illica
Conductor: Renato Palumbo
Director: Kuriyama Tamiya
Orchestra: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
<CAST>
Madama Butterfly: Hiromi Omura
Pinkerton: Hugh Smith
Sharpless: William Shimell
Suzuki: Nakasugi Tomoko

July 12(Mon), 13(Tue),
14 (Wed), 15(Thu),
16 (Fri) 2004
OPERA HOUSE
5 performances
Opera appreciation class for high-school students CARMEN (première in July 2002)
Music by Georges Bizet (1875)
Libretto by Henri Meilhac / Ludovic Halévy
Orchestra: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
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