Puccini/Ravel double bill opens the new opera season in Tokyo

Shoko Sogo (La Tasse Chinoise), Chloé Briot (L'Enfant) and Takayuki Hamamatsu (La Théière)

Taiki Tanaka (Le Fauteuil), Mao Morita (La Bergère) and Chloé Briot (L'Enfant)

Junko Saito (La zia principessa) and Chiara Isotton (Suor Angelica)

Suor Angelica

Chloé Briot (L'Enfant)

Von Nahoko Gotoh, 09 Oktober 2023

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“Chiara Isotton showed dramatic vocal presence as Angelica”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: New National Theatre, Tokyo: Opera House, Tokyo, am 7 Oktober 2023

Puccini, Suor Angelica

Ravel, L'Enfant et les sortilèges

New National Theatre

Ryusuke Numajiri, Musikalische Leitung

Jun Aguni, Regie

Atsumi Yokota, Bühnenbild

Emi Masuda, Kostüme

Masao Oshima, Licht

Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

New National Theatre Chorus

Chiara Isotton, Suor Angelica

Junko Saito, La zia principessa, Mother

Megumi Shiozaki, La badessa

Akiko Goke, La suora zelatrice

Yuka Kobayashi, La maestra delle novizie

Maki Nakamura, Suor Genovieffa

Hare Ito, Suor Osmina

Sachie Konno, Suor Dolcina

Nagisa Fukudome, Una conversa 1

Akiko Osakabe, Una conversa 2

Yoriko Maekawa, Prima cercatrice

Mari Iwamoto, Una cercatrice 2

Shihori Wada, Una novizia

Ryoko Suzuki, La suora infermiera

Chloé Briot, The Child

Rie Miyake, Princess, Fire, Nightingale

Shoko Sogo, China Cup, Dragonfly

Mao Morita, Shepherdess, Owl, Bat, The armchair

Yuki Sugiyama, Cat (female), Squirrel, Shepherd

Takayuki Hamamatsu, Wedgwood teapot

Hideyuki Aochi, Little old man, Tree frog

Teppei Kono, Clock, Cat (male)

Taiki Tanaka, Chair, Tree

Noriko Ito, Choreographie

A poignant Rigoletto revival in Tokyo

Nahoko Gotoh, 21st February

The New National Theatre in Tokyo revives its traditionalist Rigoletto, featuring Vladimir Stoyanov as the cursed court jester, Eri Nakamura as Gilda and Lawrence Brownlee debuting as the Duke of Mantua.

***11

Richard Jones directs a successful new Wozzeck in Tokyo

Nahoko Gotoh, 20th November

Richard Jones directs a new production at Tokyo's New National Theatre which lucidly articulates the structure of Berg’s expressionist music.

****1

Yannis Kokkos stages Guillaume Tell in Tokyo

Nahoko Gotoh, 30th November

For his new staging of Rossini’s Guillaume Tell at the New National Theatre, Tokyo, director Yannis Kokkos avoids specific contemporary references, choosing a setting that transcends the times.

****1

Michieletto's “Camping Così” returns to Tokyo

Nahoko Gotoh, 30th May

Damiano Michieletto’s 2011 staging of Mozart’s Così fan tutte, dubbed the "Camping Così", is one of the most enduring and entertaining productions in NNTT’s repertory.

****1

A visually spectacular and strongly sung Hoffmann in Tokyo

David Karlin, 15th March

Philippe Arlaud’s production for New National Theatre Tokyo may not be in its first youth, but it delivers on all counts. Leonardo Capalbo, Egils Siliņš and Yuka Kobayashi lead an excellent cast.

****1

Sincerity over sexiness in Tokyo's Giulio Cesare

Nahoko Gotoh, 5th October

Laurent Pelly's Night in the Museum production of Giulio Cesare is finally staged at the New National Theatre, Tokyo, after its 2020 pandemic cancellation.

***11

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Nahoko Gotoh

Nahoko is a UK-based Japanese music journalist with a background in musicology. She writes regularly for various Japanese media including Ongaku no tomo and Mostly Classic magazines.