Performer: Rihoko Sato

A new Petrushka full of contemporary anguish as Japanese artist Saburo Teshigawara presents a world premiere to celebrate his Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement award in Venice. 

Several notable house debuts, including the renowned director and choreographer Sabuto Teshigawara, enlivened the New National Theatre's first-ever production of Gluck's opera.

Teshigawara is now 65 and it is beyond comprehension that a man can still move with such muscular control and feline fluidity well into his seventh decade.