Intérprete: New National Theatre Chorus

Laurent Pelly's visually smart production of Rossini's Il turco in Italia finally makes its way to Tokyo's New National Theatre with an outstanding cast of bel canto specialists.

The NHKSO's centenary season opens with a rarely-performed masterpiece, Franz Schmidt’s oratorio Das Buch des sieben Siegeln. A leading advocate of Schmidt's music, Fabio Luisi conducts the monumental work with powerful intensity.

The New National Theatre Tokyo season ends with a powerful new production of Richard Strauss’ Elektra featuring an impressive house debut by Estonian soprano Aile Asszonyi. 

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.

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

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.