National Ballet of Japan's revival of Manon was devastatingly good

Ayako Ono as Manon and Yudai Fukuoka as Des Grieux in MacMillan's Manon

Ayako Ono as Manon, Kosuke Okumura as Lescaut and Masahiro Nakaya as Monsleur G.M. in Manon

National Ballet of Japan in Kenneth MacMillan's Manon

Ayako Ono as Manon in Kenneth MacMillan's Manon

Yuri Kimura as Lescaut's Mistress and Kosuke Okumura as Lescaut in Manon

Ayako Ono as Manon and Yudai Fukuoka as Des Grieux in Kenneth MacMillan's Manon

Von Naomi Mori, 26 März 2026

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“Her fluid upper body, eloquent arms and musicality that melts into Massenet's score”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: New National Theatre, Tokyo: Opera House, Tokyo, am 19 März 2026

Manon (Sir Kenneth MacMillan)

National Ballet of Japan

Martin Yates, Musikalische Leitung

Nicholas Georgiadis, Bühnenbild, Kostüme

Yuji Sawada, Licht

Tokyo Symphony Orchestra

Ayako Ono, Tanz

Yudai Fukuoka, Tanz

Kosuke Okumura, Tanz

Masahiro Nakaya, Tanz

Yuri Kimura, Tanz

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Naomi is a blogger living in Tokyo and travels frequently to see ballet. She is a law graduate of Waseda University and a former film publicist, film critic and IT business researcher/strategist. She blogs at La Dolce Vita in Japanese. She tweets about ballet as @naomip_86. and takes ballet class regularly

National Ballet of Japan's revival of MacMillan's Manon was devastatingly good