-
-
-
- from 1995 to
2000 (all companies)
-
- 1995
-
- Verdi: La
traviata
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Angelo Campori (conductor)
- Kuniaki Ida (director)
- Giusy Devinu / Masako Saida
(Violetta)
- Pietro Ballo / Saburo Nagasawa
(Alfredo)
- Paolo Coni / Rentaro Kurosaki (Giorgio
Germont)
- Irina Romishevskaya / Kyoko Moriyama
(Flora)
- Kazuhiro Komiya / Satoshi Chubachi
(Gastone)
- Stefano Romagnoli (Douphol)
- Katsuji Miura (D'Obigny)
- Francesco Musinu / Sachio Yamada
(Grenvil)
- Noriko Ieda / Aya Yamaguchi
(Annina)
- Ikuo Oho (Giuseppe)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 14, 15, 16 January 1995 at Bunkamura
Orchard Hall
-
- Donizetti: L'elisir
d'amore
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Anton Guadagno (conductor)
- Antonello Madau Diaz
(director)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- Masako Deguchi / Nobuko Takahashi
(Adina)
- Pietro Ballo (Nemorino)
- Giuseppe Taddei (Dulcamara)
- Tadamichi Orie / Masato Makino
(Belcore)
- Keiko Takemura / Noriko Ieda
(Giannetta)
- 6, 8, 11 February 1995 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Kiyoshige Koyama: Sansho
Dayu (Premiere)
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 1, 2 March 1995 at Shinjuku Bunka
Center, Tokyo
-
- Verdi:
Rigoletto
- Hall Opera at Suntory Hall
- With Renato Bruson, Roseela Ragatzu,
Antonello Palombi, Donato di Stefano, Mariana Pentcheva, Andrea
Silvestrelli, Reiko Nakano, Ryohei Izumi, Mitsuhiko Ohno, Masataka
Sugino, Noriko Ieda, Makoto Sakurada, Shigeru Imao, Gustav Kuhn
(conductor/director), The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Nikikai Chorus
Group
- 27, 30 April, 3 May 1995 at Suntory
Hall, Tokyo
-
- Kosaku Yamada:
Kurofune
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 24, 25 May 1995 at Shinjuku Bunka
Center, Tokyo
-
- Gounod:
Faust
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Vjekoslav Sutej (conductor)
- Henning Brockhaus (director)
- Giuseppe Sabbatini (Faust)
- Ruggero Raimondi
(Méphistophéles)
- Yoko Watanabe (Marguerita)
- Masato Makino (Valentin)
- Keiko Takemura (Siebel)
- Masanobu Shibayama (Wagner)
- Megumi Kono (Marthe)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 3, 6, 9 July 1995 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Verdi: La
traviata
- Teatro alla Scala
- Riccardo Muti (conductor)
- Liliana Cavani (producer)
- Tiziana Fabbricini
(Violetta)
- Nicoletta Zanini / Lucia Rizzi
(Flora)
- Antonella Trevisan / Anna Zoroberto
(Annina)
- Vincenzo La Scola / Ramon
Vargas(Alfredo)
- Paolo Coni / Juan Pons
(Germont)
- Enrico Cossutta (Gastone)
- Orazio Mori (Douphol)
- Silvestro Sammaritano
(d'Obigny)
- Miguel Angel Zapater (Dr
Grenvil)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla
Scala, Milan
- 6, 9, 12, 16, 18, 20 September 1995 at
NHK Hall, Tokyo
-
- Verdi:
Falstaff
- Teatro alla Scala
- Riccardo Muti (conductor)
- Giorgio Strehler (director)
- Juan Pons (Falstaff)
- Roberto Frontali (Ford)
- Ramon Vargas (Fenton)
- Ernesto Gavazzi (Dr Caius)
- Paolo Barbacini (Bardolfo)
- Luigi Roni (Pistola)
- Nancy Gustafson (Alice)
- Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz
(Nannetta)
- Monica Bacelli (Meg)
- Bernadette Manca di Nissa (Mrs
Quickly)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla
Scala, Milan
- 24, 27 September 1995 at NHK Hall,
Tokyo
-
- Puccini: La Fanciulla
del West
- Teatro alla Scala
- Giuseppe Sinopoli / Armando Gatto on
October 1 (conductor)
- Jonathan Miller (director)
- Mary Jane Johnson / Barbara Daniels on
October 1 (Minnie)
- Alan Titus / Juan Pons on October 1
(Jack Rance)
- Segei Larin / Craig Sirianni / Keith
Olsen on October 1 (Dick Johnson)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla
Scala, Milan
- 25, 28, 30 September 1, 2 October 1995
at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
-
- Toshi Ichiyanagi: Momo
(Premiere)
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 13, 14 October 1995 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- 1996
-
- Verdi: La
traviata
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Giorgio Croci (conductor)
- Vincenzo Grisostomi Travaglini
(director)
- June Anderson / Sue Chen
(Violetta)
- Salvatore Fisichella / Shigehiro Sano
(Alfredo)
- Boris Statsenko / Yoshinobu Kuribayashi
(Giorgio Germont)
- Kyoko Moriyama / Mami Takahashi
(Flora)
- Ken Matsuura / Ikuo Oho
(Gastone)
- Sachio Yamada (Douphol)
- Katsuji Miura (D'Obigny)
- Hiroyuki Okayama (Grenvil)
- Noriko Ieda / Aya Yamaguchi
(Annina)
- Seiji Ishikawa (Giuseppe)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 13, 14, 15 January 1996 Bunkamura
Orchard Hall
-
- Puccini:
Tosca
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Yoshinori Kikuchi
(conductor)
- Pierfrancesco Maestrini
(director)
- Yasuko Hayashi / Chieko Shimohara
(Tosca)
- Taro Ichihara / Saburo Nagasawa
(Cavaradossi)
- Tasuku Naono / Kan Hasegawa
(Scarpia)
- Katsuji Miura / Hiroyuki Okayama
(Angelotti )
- Sachio Yamada / Yasushi Nakamura
(sacristan)
- Ikuo Oho / Seiji Ishikawa
(Spoletta)
- Norihira Aoki (Sciarrone)
- Yoshiya Nagano (gaoler)
- Miho Kuzunuki (shepherd boy)
- Shinsei Nihon Symphony
Orchestra
- 7, 9, 11 February 1996 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Verdi:
Falstaff
- Hall Opera at Suntory Hall
- With Renato Bruson, Alberto Rinaldi,
Maurizio Comencini, Enrico Facini, Patrizio Saudelli, Andrea
Silvestrelli, Francesca Gavarini, Akie Amou, Mariana Pentcheva,
Gisella Pasino
- Gustav Kuhn (conductor/director), The
Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Nikikai Chorus Group
- 10, 14 April 1996 at Suntory Hall,
Tokyo
-
- Rossini:
Otello
- Hall Opera at Suntory Hall
- With James Wagner, Daniela Longhi,
Andrea Silvestrelli, Patrizio Saudelli, Enrico Facini, Gisella
Pasino, Gianluca Floris, Tadashi Miroku, Maurizio
Comencini,
- Gustav Kuhn (conductor/director), The
Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Fujiwara Opera Chorus
- 18 April 1996 at Suntory Hall,
Tokyo
-
- Madama
Butterfly
- Hennessy Opera Series VIII
- Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
- Keita Asari (director)
- Ichiro Takada (designer)
- Hanae Mori (costume)
- Galina Gorchakova / Keiko Yokoyama (19,
22 May) (Butterfly)
- Richard Leech / Jaonathan Welch (22 May)
(Pinkerton)
- Bryn Terfel / Brent Ellis (22 May)
(Sharpless)
- Francesca Franci / Aiko Kori (22 May)
(Suzuki)
- Shin Nippon Philharmonic Orchestra
- 15 May 1996 Yokohama
- 17, 19 May 1996 Kobe
- 21, 22, 24 May 1996 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Verdi: Il
trovatore
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Fillippo Zigante (conductor)
- Antonello Madau Diaz
(director)
- Maria Guleghina (Leonora)
- Alberto Cupido (Manrico
- Franco Giovine (di Luna)
- Mariana Pentcheva (Azucena)
- Hidekazu Tsumaya (Ferrando)
- Kyoko Moriyama (Ines)
- Hiroshi Mochiki (Ruiz)
- Yoshiya Nagano (vecchio
zingaro)
- Kazuhiko Ichikawa (messo)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 28 June, 2 July 1996 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Donizetti: Lucia di
Lammermoor
- Teatro Communale di
Firenze
- Zubin Mehta (conductor)
- Graham Vick (director)
- Mariella Devia / Edita Gruberova
(Lucia)
- Roberto Frontali / Alexandro Agache
(Ashton)
- Vincenzo La scola /Jose Bros
(Edgardo)
- Marco Berti (Arturo)
- Carlo Colombara / Giovanni Furlanetto
(Raimondo)
- Pierre Lefebvre (Normanno)
- Orchestra e coro del Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino
- 18, 20, 23, 25, 26 Sept 1996 at Tokyo
Bunka Kaikan
-
- Kazuko Hara: Nukata no
okimi
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 22, 23 September 1996 at Shinjuku Bunka
Center, Tokyo
-
- Verdi: Aida
- Teatro Communale di
Firenze
- Zubin Mehta (conductor)
- Lorenzo Mariani (director)
- Michele Crider / Leona Mitchell
(Aida)
- Gegam Grigorian / Giuseppe Giacomini
(Radames)
- Larissa Diadkova / Florence Quivar
(Amneris)
- Dimitri Kavrakos / Carlo Colombara
(Ramfis)
- Alexandru Agache /Carlo Guelfi
(Amonasro)
- Giovanni Furlanetto / Simone Alberghini
(Il Re)
- Orchestra e coro del Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino
- 22 Sept 1996 at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall,
Yokohama
- 27, 28, 29 Sept 1996 at NHK Hall,
Tokyo
-
- Baldassare Galuppi:
L'italiana in Oriente (L'inimico delle donne)
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Roberto Rizzi (conductor)
- Antonello Madau Diaz
(director)
- Fiorenza Cedolin (Agnesina)
- Toshiro Gorobe (Zonzon)
- Giovanni Guerini (Geminiano)
- Saori Adachi (Xunchia)
- Kyoko Moriyama (Zyda)
- Keiko Takemura (Kam-si))
- Ken Matsuura (Ly-lam)
- Satoshi Chubachi (Si-sin)
- Fujiwara Opera Chorus and orchestra of
Il Ponte della Musica
- 4, 5 Oct 1996 at Chofu Green Hall,
Tokyo
-
- Puccini:
Tosca
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Yoshinori Kikuchi
(conductor)
- Pierfrancesco Maestrini
(director)
- Yasuko Hayashi (Tosca)
- Taro Ichihara (Cavaradossi)
- Tasuku Naono(Scarpia)
- Katsuji Miura (Angelotti)
- Sachio Yamada (sacristan)
- Ikuo Oho (Spoletta)
- Norihira Aoki (Sciarrone)
- Yoshiya Nagano (gaoler)
- Miho Kuzunuki (shepherd boy)
- Philharmonic Orchestra of
Tokyo
- 10 October 1996 at Kanagawa Kenmin
Hall
-
- Honegger : Jeanne d'Arc
au bûcher
- NHK Symphony Orchestra
(Semi-staged)
- Charles Dutoit (conductor)
- Isao Takashima (producer )
- J . Vincent (Jeanne d'Arc)
- G . Provost (Frere
Dominique)
- R . Bouchard (Un Pretre
etc.)
- Rie Hamada (La Vierge)
- Mari Midorikawa (Marguerite)
- H . Perraguin (Catherine)
- Nikikai Chorus Group, The Little Singers
of Tokyo, NHK Symphony Orchestra
- 5, 6 Dec 1996 at NHK Hall,
Tokyo
-
- 1997
-
- Verdi: La
traviata
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Kazushi Ono (conductor)
- Shigetaka Matsumoto
(director)
- Angela Gheorghiu / Mina Yamazaki
(Violetta)
- Marco Berti / Hiroshi Mochiki
(Alfredo)
- Yasuo Horiuchi / Kan Hasegawa (Giorgio
Germont)
- Naomi Nagata / Kyoko Moriyama
(Flora)
- Ken Matsuura / Kazuhiko Ichikawa
(Gastone)
- Sachio Yamada (Douphol)
- Katsuji Miura (D'Obigny)
- Hiroyuki Okayama (Grenvil)
- Keiko Takemura / Noriko Ieda
(Annina)
- Ikuo Oho (Giuseppe)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 15, 16, 17 January 1997 at Bunkamura
Orchard Hall
-
- Verdi:
Macbeth
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Anton Guadagno (conductor)
- Vincenzo Grisostomi Travaglini
(director)
- Yasuo Horiuchi / Masato Makino
(Macbeth)
- Francesca Patane / Chieko Shimahara
(Lady Macbeth)
- Taro Ichihara / Satoshi Mizuguchi
(Macduff)
- Hidekazu Tsumaya / Katsuji Miura
(Banco)
- Kazuhiro Tsunoda / Makoto Tashiro
(Malcolm)
- Naomi Nagata / Keiko Takemura (Dama Di
Lady Macbeth)
- Sachio Yamada / Yasushi Nakamura
(Medico)
- Yoshiya Nagano (Sicario)
- Toshiro Ishii (herald)
- Kazuhiko Ichikawa (first
apparition)
- Saori Adachi (second
apparition)
- Masaya Suzuki / Nobuharu Okamoto (third
apparition)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 19, 21, 23 February 1997 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Puccini:
Tosca
- Hall Opera at Suntory Hall
- With Maria Guleghina, Vincenzo La Scola,
Renato Bruson, Carlo Striuli, Angelo Casertano, Alfredo Mariotti,
Masataka Sugino, Gen Sugawara
- Daniel Oren (conductor), Erich Wonder
(visual director), The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Opera
Singers
- 12, 15 April 1997 at Suntory Hall,
Tokyo
-
- Yutaka Makino: Kurotsuka
- Shinichiro Ikebe:
Shinigami
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 29, 30 May 1997 at Shinjuku Bunka
Center, Tokyo
-
- Mascagni: Cavalleria
Rusticana
- Metropolitan
Opera
- James Levine (conductor)
- Franco Zeffirelli (director)
- Maria Guleghina (Santuzza)
- Fabio Armiliato (Turiddu)
- Stephanie Blythe (Lucia)
- Bruno Pola (Alfio)
- Wendy White (Lola)
- and
- Leoncavallo: I
Pagliacci
- Metropolitan
Opera
- James Levine (conductor)
- Franco Zeffirelli (director)
- Juan Pons (Tonio)
- Placido Domingo (Canio)
- Daniela Dessi (24 May, 4, 7 June )/
Elizabeth Holleque (30 May) (Nedda)
- Eduardo Valdes (Beppe)
- Dwayne Croft (24 May, 4, 7 June) / Kim
Josephson (30 May) (Silvio)
- Chorus and orchestra of the Metropolitan
Opera, New York
- 24 May 1997 at Aichi Prefectural Art
Theatre, Nagoya
- 30 May, 4 June 1997 at NHK Hall,
Tokyo
- 7 June 1997 at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall,
Yokohama
-
- Puccini:
Tosca
- Metropolitan
Opera
- James Levine (conductor)
- Franco Zeffirelli (director)
- Luciano Pavarotti (25, 29,May 1, 8 June
)/ Fabio Armiliato (14 June) (Cavardossi)
- Carol Vaness (25, 29 May) / Maria
Guleghina (1, 8, 14 June) (Tosca)
- James Morris (Scarpia)
- James Courtney (Angelotti)
- David Evitts (Sacristan)
- Charles Anthony (Spoletta)
- Bradley Garvin (Sciarrone)
- Suzuki (Shepherd)
- Vaclovas Daunoras (Jailer)
- Chorus and orchestra of the Metropolitan
Opera, New York
- 25 May 1997 at Aichi Prefectural Art
Theatre, Nagoya
- 29 May 1997 at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall,
Yokohama
- 1, 8, 14 June 1997 at NHK Hall,
Tokyo
-
- Bizet:
Carmen
- Metropolitan
Opera
- Placido Domingo (conductor)
- Franco Zeffirelli (director)
- Waltraud Meier (Carmen)
- Luis Lima (Don José)
- Ainhoa Arteta (28 May) / Angela
Gheorghiu (31 May, 5 June) (Micaela)
- Sergei Leiferkus (Escamillo)
- Emily Pulley (Frasquita)
- Kristine Jepson (Mercedes)
- Tony Stevenson (Remendado)
- Kim Josephson
(Dancaïro)
- Jeffrey Wells (Zuniga)
- Christopher Schaldenbrand
(Morales)
- Chorus and orchestra of the Metropolitan
Opera, New York
- 28 May 1997 at Aichi Prefectural Art
Theatre, Nagoya
- 31 May, 5 June 1997 at NHK Hall,
Tokyo
-
- Mozart: Cosi fan
tutte
- Metropolitan
Opera
- James Levine (conductor)
- Lesley Koenig (director)
- Jerry Hadley (Ferrando)
- Dwayne Croft (Guglielmo)
- Thomas Allen (Don Alfonso)
- Carol Vaness (Fiordiligi)
- Susanne Mentzer (Dorabella)
- Clare Gormley (Despina)
- Chorus and orchestra of the Metropolitan
Opera, New York
- 3, 6, 9, 12 June 1997 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Berlioz: La Damnation de
Faust (Concert
performance)
- Metropolitan
Opera
- James Levine (conductor)
- Olga Borodina (Marguerite)
- Vinson Cole (Faust)
- James Morris
(Mephistopheles)
- Rene Pape (Brander)
- Chorus and orchestra of the Metropolitan
Opera, New York
- 13 June 1997 at Suntory Hall,
Tokyo
-
- Donizetti: La
Favorita
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Marco Boemi (conductor)
- Beppe De Tomasi (director)
- Mariana Pentcheva (Leonora)
- Giuseppe Sabbatini
(Fernando)
- Roberto Frontali (Alfonso
XI)
- Bonaldo Giaiotti
(Baldassare)
- Chiho Oiwa (Ines)
- Kazuhiro Tsunoda (Don
Gasparo)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 27, 29 June, 1 July 1997 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Verdi: Don
Carlo
- Concert performance
- Kazushi Ono (conductor)
- Taro Ichihara (Don Carlo)
- Yasuo Horiuchi (Rodrigo)
- Mari Midorikawa (Elisabetta)
- Chieko Teratani (Eboli)
- Toshiki Toyama (Philip II)
- Peng Kang Liang (Grand
Inquisator)
- Tokyo Opera Singers and Tokyo
Philharmonic Orchestra
- 21 August 1997 at Bunkamura Orchard
Hall, Tokyo
-
- Bizet:
Carmen
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Vjekoslav Sutej (conductor)
- Grischa Asagaroff (director)
- Agnes Baltsa / Irina Romishevskaya
(Carmen)
- Luis Lima / Satoshi Mizuguchi (Don
José)
- Masako Deguchi / Chiho Oiwa
(Micaela)
- Tadamichi Orie / Yoshinobu Kuribayashi
(Escamillo)
- Katsuji Miura (Zuniga)
- Kan Hasegawa / Toshihiro Tachibana
(Morales)
- Naoki Sakurai / Yasushi Nakamura
(Dancairo)
- Ken Matsuura / Ikuo Oho
(Remendado)
- Keiko Takemura / Masayo Yamadate
(Frasquita)
- Megumi Kono / Reiko Nakano
(Mercedes)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 5, 9, 11, 13 September 1997 at Tokyo
Bunka Kaikan
-
- Dan, Ikuma: Takeru
- New National Theatre, Tokyo
- 10-13 October 1997
-
- Mozart: Die
Zauberflöte
- Staatsoper
Berlin
- Daniel Barenboim /Sebastian Weigle
(conductor)
- August Everding (producer)
- John Tomlinson / Rene Pape
(Sarastro)
- Endrik Wottrich / Peter Schreier
(Tamino)
- Ana Camelia Stefanescu (Queen of the
Night)
- Tina Kiberg (Pamina)
- Roman Trekel (Papageno)
- Par Lindskog / Andreas Schmidt
(Monostatos)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche
Staatsoper Berlin
- 8, 10, 13, 15, 17 Nov 1997 at Tokyo
Bunka Kaikan
-
- Wagner: Die
Walküre
- Staatsoper
Berlin
- Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
- Poul Elming (Siegmund)
- Rene Pape (Hunding)
- Waltraud Meier / Tina Kiberg
(Sieglinde)
- John Tomlinson / Falk Struckmann
(Wotan)
- Deborah Polaski (Brunnhilde)
- Rosemarie Lang (Fricka)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche
Staatsoper Berlin
- 9, 12, 21 Nov 1997 at NHK Hall,
Tokyo
-
- Wagner: Lohengrin
- New National Theatre, Tokyo
- 22-30 November 1997
-
- Berg:
Wozzeck
- Staatsoper
Berlin
- Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
- Patrice Chereau (producer)
- Falk Struckmann (Wozzeck)
- Reiner Goldberg
(Tambourmajor)
- Endrik Wottrich (Andres)
- Graham Clark (Hauptmann)
- Gunter von Kannen (Doctor)
- Waltraud Meier (Marie)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche
Staatsoper Berlin
- 22, 24 Nov 1997 at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall,
Yokohama
-
- 1998
-
- J Strauss II: Die
Fledermaus
- Prague State Opera
- Harry Prever (conductor)
- Martin Otaver (director)
- Soloists etc. of the Prague State Opera,
- 4 Jan 1998 at Aichi Prefectural Arts
Theatre, Nagoya
- 8, 9, 11, 12 Jan 1998 at Bunkamura
Orchard Hall Hall, Tokyo
- 15 Jan 1998 at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall,
Yokohama
-
- Verdi: Aida
- New National Theatre,
Tokyo
- Franco Zeffirelli (producer)
- Maria Guleghina / Norma Fantini / Chieko
Shimabara (Aida)
- Jose Cura / Satoshi Mizoguchi
(Radames)
- Nina Terentieva / Alemi Nishi / Masami
Fujikawa (Amneris)
- Gregg Baker / Yasuo Horiuchi / Masato
Makino (Amonasro)
- Varlo Colombara / Hidekasu Tsumaya
(Ramfis)
- Carlo Striuli / Sachio Yamada (Il
Re)
- Chorus of the Fujiwara Opera and local
orchestra
- 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24 Jan 1998 at
New National Theatre, Tokyo
-
- Wagner: Der fliegende
Holländer
- Deutsche Oper
Berlin
- Christian Thielemann
(conductor)
- Gotz Friedrich (producer)
- Deborah Voigt / Gabriela Benackova-Cap
(Senta)
- Matti Salminen (Daland)
- Peter Seiffert / Wolfgang Neumann
(Erik)
- Bernd Weikl / Jukka Rasilainen
(Dutchman)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche
Oper, Berlin
- 28, 29, 31 Jan 2 Feb 1998 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan, Tokyo
-
- Kálmán:
Die Csárdásfürstin
- Soloists etc. of the Hunagrian State
Budapest Operetta Theatre,
- 30, 31 Jan Feb 1 1998 at Bunkamura
Orchard Hall Hall, Tokyo
-
- Lehár: Die
lustige Witwe
- Soloists etc. of the Hunagrian State
Budapest Operetta Theatre,
- 3, 4, 5 Feb 1998 at Bunkamura Orchard
Hall Hall, Tokyo
-
- Wagner:
Tannhäuser
- Deutsche Oper
Berlin
- Christian Thielemann / Jiri Kout
(conductor)
- Gotz Friedrich (producer)
- Matti Salminen (Landgraf Hermann)
- Rene Kollo (Tannhäuser)
- Bernd Weikl / Peter Edelmann (Wolfram)
- Clemens Bieber (Walter)
- Ralf Lucas (Biterolf)
- David Griffith (Heinrich)
- Friedrich Molsberger (Reinmar)
- Eva Johansson / Gabriela Benackova-Cap
(Elizabeth)
- Karan Armstrong (Venus)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche
Oper, Berlin
- 5, 8, 11, 14 Feb 1998 at NHK Hall,
Tokyo
-
- R Strauss II: Der
Rosenkavalier
- Deutsche Oper
Berlin
- Jiri Kout (conductor)
- Gotz Friedrich (producer)
- Karan Armstrong
(Marschallin)
- Gunter von Kannen (Ochs)
- Yvonne Weidstruck (Octavian)
- Lenus Carlson (Faninal)
- Fionnuala McCarthy (Sophie)
- Lucy Peacock (Leitmetzerin)
- Uwe Peper (Valzacchi)
- Ulrike Helzel (Annina)
- Boiko Zvetlanov (Singer)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche
Oper, Berlin
- 13, 15 Feb 1998 at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall,
Yokohama
-
- Verdi: La
traviata
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Maurizio Benini / Sho Fukumori
(conductor)
- Beppe De Tomasi (director)
- Cristina Gallardo-Domas / Andrea Rost
(Violetta)
- Roberto Aronica / Octavio Arévalo
(Alfredo)
- Roberto Serville / Tadamichi Orie
(Giorgio Germont)
- Naomi Nagata / Kyoko Moriyama
(Flora)
- Ken Matsuura / Satoshi Chubachi
(Gastone)
- Katsuji Miura (Douphol)
- Sachio Yamada (D'Obigny)
- Hiroyuki Okayama (Grenvil)
- Noriko Ieda / Keiko Takemura
(Annina)
- Ikuo Oho (Giuseppe)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 21, 22, 23, 24 February 1998 at New
National Theatre Opera House
- 28 February, 1 March 1998 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Isao Matsushita:
Shinano-no-kuni Zenkoji Story
- Kotaro Sato (conductor)
- Hideo Kanze (director)
- with Akiya Fukushima, Kazuko Nagai,
Hiroyuki Yoshida, Emiko Suga etc. (7th) and Futoshi Katsube,
Chieko Teratani, Ken Nishikiori, Masako Saida etc.
(8th)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 7, 8 March 1998 at Bunkamura Orchard
Hall, Tokyo
-
- Mozart: Le nozze di
Figaro
- Soloists of the Opera Atelier/Canadian
Baroque Opera Company from the Royal Alexandra Theatre in
Toronto
- 11, 12, 13 March 1998 at Bunkamura
Orchard Hall, Tokyo
-
- Kazuko Hara: Nasu no
yoichi
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 20, 21 March 1998 at Shinjuku Bunka
Center, Tokyo
-
- Janacek:
Jenufa
- Concert performance in Czech
- Ono Kazushi (conductor)
- Rika Iwai (Jenufa)
- Yumi Koyama (Kostelnitcka)
- Makoto Tashiro (Steva)
- Eiji Date (Laca)
- Tokyo Opera Singers and Tokyo
Philharmonic Orchestra
- 26 March 1998 at Bunkamura Orchard Hall,
Tokyo
-
- Puccini: Madama
Butterfly
- New National Theatre,
Tokyo
- Yoshinori Kikuchi
(conductor)
- Masayoshi Kuriyama (stage
director)
- Yasuko Hayashi /Miwako Matsumoto
(Cio-cio-san)
- Alfredo Portilla / Alexei Repchinsky
(Pinkerton)
- David A Okerlund / Tasuku Naono
(Sharpless)
- Aiko Kori / Kazuko Nagai
(Suzuki)
- Ken Matsuura /Kazuhiko Ichikawa
(Goro)
- Chorus of the New National Theatre and
Japan Shinsei Symphony Orchestra
- 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15 Apr 1998 at New
National Theatre, Tokyo
-
- Verdi:
Nabucco
- Hall Opera at Suntory Hall
- With Renato Bruson, Fabio Armiliato,
Ferruccio Furlanetto, Maria Guleghina, Elena Zaremba, Carlo
Striuli, Masatoshi Uehara, Taemi Kohama
- Daniel Oren (conductor), Omri Nitzan
(director), Dror Herrenson (designer), The Tokyo Symphony
Orchestra, Tokyo Opera Singers
- 12, 15, 20 April 1998 at Suntory Hall,
Tokyo
-
- Mozart: Die
Zauberflöte
- New National Theatre, Tokyo
- 6-14 May 1998
-
- Debussy: Pelléas
et Mélisande
- Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
- David Kneuss (Director)
- Teresa Stratas (Melisande)
- Dwayne Croft (Pelleas)
- Jose Van Dam (Golaud)
- Robert Lloyd (Arkel)
- Jane Henschel (Genevieve)
- Michael Denos (Yniold)
- Keisuke Shimada
(doctor/shepherd)
- Tokyo Opera Singers and the New Japan
Philharmonic Orchestra
- May 10, 13 1998 at Bunkamura Orchard
Hall, Tokyo
- May 16 1998 at Aichi Prefectural Art
Theatre, Nagoya
- [Co-production with the San
Francisco Opera]
-
- Verdi:
Nabucco
- Fujiwara Opera and
New National Theatre
coproduction
- Anton Guadagno (conductor)
- Antonello Madau Diaz
(director)
- Paolo Gavanelli / Tasuku Naono
(Nabucco)
- Lauren Flanigan / Chieko Shimohara
(Abigaille)
- Paata Burchuladze /Bonaldo Giaiotti
(Zaccaria)
- Taro Ichihara / Kosuke Taguchi
(Ismaele)
- Kyoko Moriyama / Naomi Nagata
(Fenena)
- Keiko Takemura / Masayo Yamadate
(Anna)
- Makoto Tashiro / Kazuhiko Ichikawa
(Abdallo)
- Katsuji Miura / Sachio Yamada (Gran
Sacerdote di Belo)
- The Japan Shinsei Symphony
Orchestra
- 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25 June 1998 at New
National Theatre Opera House
-
- J Strauss II: Die
Fledermaus
- Berlin Komische Oper
- Harry Kupfer (director)
- Soloists, chorus and orchestra of the
Berlin Komische Oper,
- 27, 28, 29 June 1998 at Bunkamura
Orchard Hall Hall, Tokyo
-
- Offenbach: Les contes
d'Hoffmann
- Berlin Komische Oper
- Harry Kupfer (director)
- Soloists, chorus and orchestra of the
Berlin Komische Oper,
- 3, 4, 5 July 1998 at Bunkamura Orchard
Hall Hall, Tokyo
-
- Minoru Miki:
Shunkinsho
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 5, 6 July 1998 at the New National
Theatre, Tokyo (Middle Hall)
-
- Puccini: Madama
Butterfly
- New National Theatre, Tokyo
- 15, 17 July 1998
- [for High School Students]
-
- R Strauss:
Arabella
- New National Theatre, Tokyo
- 19-23 September 1998
-
- Mascagni: Cavalleria
Rusticana
- Teatro Communale di
Bologna
- Massimo de Bernart
(conductor)
- Liliana Cavani (producer)
- Agnes Baltsa/ Waltraud Meyer
(Santuzza)
- Jose Cura/ Giorgio Merighi
(Turiddu)
- Carlo Guelfi/Bruno Pola
(Alfio)
- Sarah M'Punga (Lola)
- and
- Puccini: Gianni
Schicchi
- Teatro Communale di
Bologna
- Massimo de Bernart
(conductor)
- Marco Gandini (producer)
- Juan Pons (Gianni Schicchi)
- Luca Canonici (Rinuccio)
- Alida Ferrarini (Lauretta)
- Cinzia De Mola (Zita)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro
Comunale di Bologna
- 25, 27 Sept 1998 at Biwako Hall,
Shiga
- 30 Sept, 6, 9, 13 Oct 1998 at Orchard
Hall, Tokyo
- 3 Oct 1998 at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall,
Yokohama
-
- Giordano:
Fedora
- Teatro Communale di
Bologna
- Stefano Ranzani (conductor)
- Beppe de Tomasi (producer)
- Mirella Freni (Fedora)
- Jose Cura (Loris/Otsu)
- Jose Carreras (Loris/Tokyo)
- Bruno Pola (De Siriex)
- Adelina Scarabelli (Olga
Sukarev)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro
Comunale di Bologna
- 26 Sept 1998 at Biwako Hall,
Shiga
- 1, 4, 7, 10 October 1998 at NHK Hall,
Tokyo
-
- Rossini: Il barbiere di
Siviglia
- Fujiwara Opera and
New National Theatre
coproduction
- Maurizio Benini (conductor)
- Pierfrancesco Maestrini
(director)
- Raúl Giménez / Toshiro
Gorobe (Almaviva)
- Cecilia Gasdia / Mika Shigematsu
(Rosina)
- Bruno Praticò / Masumi Kubota
(Bartolo)
- Roberto Frontali / Masato Makino
(Figaro)
- Carlo Colombara / Katsuji Miura (Don
Basilio)
- Michiko Taguchi / Kyoko
Moriyama(Berta)
- Toshiro Ishii / Hiroaki Murakami
(Fiorello)
- Kan Hasegawa (officer)
- Hachiro Ika (Ambrogio)
- Masataka Nakajima (notary)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 9, 11, 12, 14 October 1998 at New
National Theatre Opera House
-
- Verdi: Don
Carlo
- Teatro Communale di
Bologna
- Daniele Gatti (conductor)
- Andrei Serban (producer)
- Nicolai Ghiaurov (Philip II)
- Alberto Cupido (Don Carlo)
- Daniela Dessi (Elizabeth)
- Paolo Coni (Rodrigo)
- Gloria Scalchi (Eboli)
- Askare Abdrasakov (Grand Inquisitor)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro
Comunale di Bologna
- 11 October 1998 at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall,
Yokohama
- 15, 17 Oct 1998 at NHK Hall,
Tokyo
-
- Verdi: La
traviata
- Hungarian State Opera
- Soloists, chorus, ballet and orchestra
of the Hungarian State Opera
- 24, 26 October 1998 at Bunkamura Orchard
Hall, Tokyo
- 23 October 1998 at Sagami-ono Green
Hall, Kanagawa Prefecture
- 31 October 1998 at Yokosuka Art Theatre,
Kanagawa Prefecture
-
- Humperdinck: Hänsel
und Gretel
- New National Theatre, Tokyo
- 27 November-2 December 1998
-
- 1999
-
- Verdi: La traviata
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Renato Palumbo (conductor)
- Beppe De Tomasi (director)
- Victoria Loukianetz / Masako Deguchi
(Violetta)
- Marcelo Alvarez / Taro Ichihara
(Alfredo)
- Giorgio Cebrian (Giorgio
Germont)
- Reiko Nakano / Ryoko Hosomi
(Flora)
- Satoshi Chubachi / Seiji Ishikawa
(Gastone)
- Masumi Kubota (Douphol)
- Yasushi Nakamura (D'Obigny)
- Kazuhiro Yatabe (Grenvil)
- Keiko Takemura / Reiko Takanami
(Annina)
- Naoto Watanabe (Giuseppe)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 15, 16, 17 January 1999 at Bunkamura
Orchard Hall
-
- Bizet:
Carmen
- New National Theatre, Tokyo
- 19-27 January 1999
-
- Mizuno, Shuko: The Tale
of Himeji Castle
- New National Theatre, Tokyo
- 13-14 February 1999
-
- Puccini: La
bohème
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Stefano Ranzani (conductor)
- Beppe De Tomasi (director)
- Mirella Freni / Masako Deguchi
(Mimi)
- Roberto Aronica / Shigehiro Sano
(Rodolfo)
- Yasuo Horiuchi / Masato Makino
(Marcello)
- Sue Chen Panariello / Marie Igarashi
(Musetta)
- Yuichi Toyoshima / Tomohiro Tani
(Shaunard)
- Nicolai Ghiaurov / Kang-liang Peng
(Colline)
- Sachio Yamada / Katsuji Miura
(Benoit)
- Katsuji Miura / Sachio Yamada
(Alcindoro)
- Toshiaki Murakami / Seiji Ishikawa
(Parpignol)
- The Japan Shinsei Symphony
Orchestra
- 3, 5, 6, 7 March 1999 at the New
National Theatre Opera House
-
- J Strauss II: Die
Fledermaus
- New National Theatre, Tokyo
- 21-25 April 1999
-
- Hara, Kazuko: Crime and
Punishment
- New National Theatre, Tokyo
- 18-20 June 1999
-
- Hitoshi Tanaka: Shuzenji
Monogatari (Premiere)
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 3, 4 July 1999 at the New National
Theatre, Tokyo (Middle Hall)
-
- Puccini: Madama
Butterfly
- New National Theatre, Tokyo
- 13-16 July 1999
- [for High School
Students]
-
- Verdi: Un ballo in
maschera
- New National Theatre, Tokyo
- 21-30 September 1999
-
- Donizetti: L'elisir
d'amore
- Hall Opera at Suntory Hall
- Marco Boemi (conductor)
- Lorenzo Mariani (director)
- Italo Grassi (designer)
- Eva Mei (Adina)
- Giuseppe Sabbatini
(Nemorino)
- Paolo Coni (Belcore)
- Natale de Carolis
(Dulcamara)
- Kikuko Teshima (Giannetta)
- Suntory Hall Opera Academy Chorus, The
Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
- 30 September, 3, 5 October 1999 at
Suntory Hall, Tokyo
-
- Puccini: Manon
Lescaut
- New National Theatre, Tokyo
- Yoshinori Kikuchi (conductor),
- Pierfrancesco Maestrini (stage
director),
- Fiorella Mariani (stage designer),
- David Walker (costume
designer)
- Giovanna Casolla 6/8/11/14 /Chieko
Shimohara 10/13 (Manon),
- Keith Olsen 6/8/11/13 / Nicola
Martinucci 10/14 (Des Grieux),
- Roberto de Candia 6/8/10/13 / Tasuku
Naono 11/14 (Lescaut),
- Naoki Ikeda 6/10/13 / Sachio Yamada
8/11/14 (Geronte),
- Kazuhiko Ichikawa 6/10/13 / Satoshi
Chubachi 8/11/14 (Edmondo).
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, New
National Theatre and Fujiwara choruses,
- 6, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14 November 1999 at
the New National Theatre Opera House
-
- Mozart:Don Giovanni
- Nikikai Opera
- Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku
- 16 November 1999
-
- Ponchielli: La
gioconda
- Yoshinori Kikuchi
(conductor)
- Chieko Shimohara (La Gioconda)
- Kei Fukui (Enzo),
- Masato Makino (Barnaba),
- Naomi Nagata (Laura),
- Peng Kang-Liang (Alvise)
- Misato Iwamori (La Cieca)
- Japan Shinsei Symphony Orchestra, Japan
Shinsei Symphony and Fujiwara Choruses
- 21 November 1999, Tokyo Metropolitan Art
Space, 22 November 1999, Suntory Hall, Tokyo
-
- Mozart: Le nozze di
Figaro
- Warsaw Chamber Opera
- 26 November 1999, Kanagawa Kenmin Hall,
Yokohama
- 27, 28 November 1999, Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Mozart: Le nozze di
Figaro
- Nikikai Opera
- 26, 27 two perfs., 28 November
1999 New National Theatre The Pit
-
- Bernstein:
Candide (London National Theatre
musical version)
- Yutaka Sado (conductor)
- Cast: Hiroyuki Yoshida, Megumi Sunada,
Hiroshi Kuroda, Makoto Tanaka, Aiko Kori, Akiya Fukushima, Madoka
Sato
- 29 November 1999 Bunkamura Orchard Hall,
Tokyo, 1 December 1999 Minato Mirai Hall, Yokohama
-
- Puccini: Madama
Butterfly
- New National Theatre, Tokyo
- Vjekoslav Sutej (conductor)
- Masayoshi Kuriyama (stage director),
- Yukio Horio (stage designer),
- Katsumi Kishii (costume
designer)
- Yoko Watanabe 18/21/24/27 /Hisara Sato
23/26 (Butterfly)
- Alfredo Cupido 18/21/24/27 / Maurizio
Graziani 23/26 (Pinkerton)
- Marco di Felice 18/21/24/27 / Tadamichi
Orie 23/26 (Sharpless)
- Naomi Nagata 18/21/24/27 / Kyoko
Moriyama 23/26 (Suzuki)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, New
National Theatre Chorus
- 18, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27
December 1999, New
National Theatre Opera House
-
- 2000
-
- J Strauss II: Die
Fledermaus
- Prague National Theatre
- 7, 8 January 2000 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
- 14 January 2000 at Green Hall Sagamiono,
Tokyo
-
- Mozart: Die
Zauberflöte
- Prague National Theatre
- 9, 10 January 2000 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
- 15 January 2000 at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall,
Yokohama
-
- Puccini:
Tosca
- 10 January 2000 at Suntory
Hall
-
- Donizetti: Lucia di
Lammermoor
- The Fujiwara Opera
- Stefano Ranzani (conductor )
- Henning Brockhaus (director)
- Josef Svoboda (designer)
- Cast: Valeria Esposito / Mieko Sato
(Lucia)
- Dario Volonte / Shigehiro Sano
(Edgardo)
- Roberto Servile / Yasuo Horiuchi
(Enrico)
- Masumi Kubota / Kazuhiro Yatabe
(Raimondo)
- Kazuhiro Tsunoda / Makoto Tashiro
(Arturo)
- Kyoko Moriyama / Megumi Kono
(Alisa)
- Kazuhiko Ichikawa / Tetsuya Arime
(Normanno)
- First cast January 14/16, second cast
January 15
- Fujiwara Opera Chorus Group, Tokyo
Philharmonic Orchestra
- 14, 15, 16 January 2000 at Bunkamura
Orchard Hall, Tokyo
-
- J Strauss II: Die
Fledermaus
- Tokyo Operetta Association
- 14 January 2000 at Shinjuku Bunka
Centre, Tokyo
-
- Mozart: Don
Giovanni
- New National Theatre co-production with
the Vienna State Opera
- Asher Fisch (conductor)
- Roberto di Simone (director)
- Nicola Rubertelli (designer)
- Natale de Carolis (Don Giovanni)
- Julia Isaev (Donna Anna)
- Gregory Kunde (Don Ottavio)
- Pamela Coburn (Donna Elvira)