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)

Par Nahoko Gotoh, 09 octobre 2023

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“Chiara Isotton showed dramatic vocal presence as Angelica”

Critique faite à New National Theatre, Tokyo: Opera House, Tokyo, le 7 octobre 2023

Puccini, Suor Angelica

Ravel, L'Enfant et les Sortilèges

New National Theatre

Ryusuke Numajiri, Direction

Jun Aguni, Mise en scène

Atsumi Yokota, Décors

Emi Masuda, Costumes

Masao Oshima, Lumières

Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

New National Theatre Chorus

Chiara Isotton, Suor Angelica

Junko Saito, La zia principessa, Maman

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, Sœur bavarde 1

Akiko Osakabe, Sœur bavarde 2

Yoriko Maekawa, Première sœur quêteuse

Mari Iwamoto, Sœur quêteuse 2

Shihori Wada, Una novizia

Ryoko Suzuki, La suora infermiera

Chloé Briot, L'Enfant

Rie Miyake, La Princesse, Le Feu, Le Rossignol

Shoko Sogo, La Tasse chinoise, La Libellule

Mao Morita, Une pastourelle, La Chouette, La Chauve-Souris, La Bergère Louis XV

Yuki Sugiyama, La Chatte, L'Écureuil, Un pâtre

Takayuki Hamamatsu, La Théière

Hideyuki Aochi, Le Petit Vieillard, La Rainette

Teppei Kono, L'Horloge comtoise, Le Chat

Taiki Tanaka, Le Fauteuil, Le Chêne

Noriko Ito, Chorégraphie

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.