An enchanting Barber visits Tokyo

By Ju Hyuk Kim, 02 December 2016

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Reviewed at New National Theatre, Tokyo: Opera House, Tokyo on 1 December 2016

Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia

New National Theatre

Francesco Angelico, Conductor

Josef Ernst Köpplinger, Director, Set Designer

Heidrun Schmelzer, Costume Designer

Lena Belkina, Rosina

Maxim Mironov, Count Almaviva

Dalibor Jenis, Figaro

Luciano di Pasquale, Dr Bartolo

Etsuko Kanoh, Berta

Masashi Kohata, Officer

Kazuhiko Furukawa, Ambrogio

Hidekazu Tsumaya, Don Basilio

Takashi Masu, Fiorello

Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

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

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

Nahoko Gotoh, 7th October

The 2023–24 season at the New National Theatre, Tokyo, opens with straightforward stagings of an unusual double bill of Suor Angelica and L’Enfant et les sortilèges.

***11

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

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Ju Hyuk Kim

Ju Hyuk Kim is a violinist and a conductor living in Tokyo. He has lived in South Korea, the Philippines, Japan, and the USA; and finds music as something that truly transcends cultures and languages. His musical passion is in chamber music, especially string quartets. His doctoral dissertation was on the string quartet scene in Japan, and hopes to conduct a similar research in nearby countries.

An enchanting Barber visits Tokyo: Il barbiere di Siviglia at the New National Theatre