Rustioni conducts orchestral highlights from Verdi and Wagner in Tokyo

Daniele Rustioni conducts the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

Par Nahoko Gotoh, 28 janvier 2026

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“Rustioni brought out energetic and crisp playing from the orchestra”

Critique faite à Tokyo Bunka Kaikan: Main Hall, Tokyo, le 23 janvier 2026

Verdi, La forza del destino (La Force du destin): ouverture

Verdi, Macbeth: Ballet Music

Verdi, Otello: Ballet music

Verdi, Les Vêpres siciliennes (I vespri siciliani): ouverture

Wagner, Rienzi, der Letze der Tribunen: ouverture

Wagner, Tannhäuser: ouverture

Wagner, Lohengrin: prélude de l'acte 1

Wagner, Les Maîtres chanteurs de Nuremberg : Prélude de l'Acte I

Daniele Rustioni, Direction

Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

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.

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Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra excels at Summer Muza festival

Nahoko Gotoh, 26th July

The Olympics is not the only big event that is taking place around Tokyo this summer. A large-scale festival of classical music, Festa Muza Summer, is currently being held at Muza Kawasaki Concert Hall.

*****

Schoenberg sells out in Tokyo

Robert Markow, 19th November

Who would think that a symphony concert featuring Schoenberg and Dutilleux would sell out? Well, it did – in Tokyo. Bravo to the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra for its daring programming.

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Shostakovich at his quirkiest at Tokyo's Bunka Kaikan Hall

David Karlin, 29th March

Pin sharp playing and pin sharp acoustics combine to form a high quality reading of Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 27 and Shostakovich's Symphony no. 15, one of the quirkiest of symphonies.

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La Force du destin : Rustioni quitte l'Opéra de Lyon en beauté

Stéphane Lelièvre, 14th March

Une vision scénique peu convaincante, mais une interprétation musicale galvanisée par la direction de Daniele Rustioni qui dirige ici sa dernière production lyrique en tant que directeur musical de l'Opéra de Lyon.

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L’exécution magistrale d’Andrea Chénier par l’Opéra de Lyon

Beate Langenbruch, 15th October

À l'Auditorium de Lyon, les troupes de l'Opéra ont proposé bien plus qu'une simple version de concert du drame vériste d'Umberto Giordano, avec une Anna Pirozzi bouleversante.

*****

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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.