-
-
-
- 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)
- Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (Leporello)
- Hidekazu Tsumaya (Commendatore)
- Toshiya Inagaki (Masetto)
- Nobuko Takahashi (Zerlina),
- Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, New National
Theatre Chorus
- 16, 18, 21, 23, 25, 27 January 2000 at
the New National Theatre Opera House
-
- Puccini:
Tosca
- The Citizenry of Tokyo Opera
Society
- 19 , 20 January 2000 at Yupoto Kanihoken
Hall, Tokyo
-
- Wagner: Der fliegende
Holländer
- Kirov Opera
- 21, 22, 23 January 2000 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Weill: Die
Dreigroschenoper
- 22, 23 January 2000 at Kanagawa
Kenmin Hall, Yokohama
-
- Lehár: Die
lustige Witwe
- Hungarian State Budapest Operetta
Theatre
- 24 January 2000 at Fuchu-no-mori Art
Theatre, Tokyo
- 4 February at Omiya Symphonic Hall,
Saitama
-
- Verdi: La forza del
destino
- Kirov Opera
- 26, 28, 30 January 2000 at NHK Hall,
Tokyo
-
- Schreker: Der ferne
Klang
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra's Opera
Concertante Series 19. Japanese premiere
- Kazushi Ono (conductor)
- Cast: Rika Iwai, Hiroyuki Yoshida,
Masamichi Yabunishi, Asako Yoda, Ken Osawa, Chieko Teratani,
Ryohei Izumi, Mitsuya Okubo, Katsunori Kono, Hohmei Kamie, Koichi
Inoue, Toshihiko Yamaguchi
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and Tokyo
Opera Singers,
- 27 January 2000 at Bunkamura Orchard
Hall, Tokyo
-
- Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
(Pikovaya dama)
- Kirov Opera
- 29, 31 January, 1 February 2000 at Tokyo
Bunka Kaikan
-
- Rossini: Il barbiere di
Siviglia
- The New National
Theatre
- Antonio
Pirolli (conductor),
- Pierfrancesco Maestrini (director),
- Naoji Kawaguchi (stage designer),
- Pasquale Grossi (costume
designer)
- Rockwell
Blake 20/22/27 /Toshiro
Gorobe 24/26 (Almaviva),
- Sonia
Ganassi 20/24/27 /
Nobuko
Takahashi 22/26 (Rosina),
- Alfredo Mariotti 20/22/27 / Masumi
Kubota 24/26 (Bartolo),
- Angelo
Veccia 20/24/27 / Masato
Makino 22/26 (Figaro),
- Bonaldo Giaiotti 20/24/27 / Katsuji
Miura 22/26 (Basilio).
- The Tokyo Symphony
Orchestra, New National Theatre Chorus
- 20, 22, 24, 26, 27
February 2000 at the New National Theatre Opera House
-
- Minoru Miki: Ada, An
Actor's Revenge
- Tokyo University of Fine Arts [Tokyo
Geijutsu Daigaku]
- 21
February 2000 at
Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku Sogakudo
-
- Strauss, R: Die
schweigsame Frau
- Tokyo Opera Productions
- 23, 24 February 2000 at Nakano Zero
Hall, Tokyo)
-
- Mozart: Die
Zauberflöte
- Nikikai Opera
- 25, 26, 27 February 2000 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Verdi: La
traviata
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Alain
Guingal (conductor)
- Beppe de Tomasi (stage
director)
- Mariella
Devia 12/15/18 /Young
Mi Kim 17 (Violetta)
- Octavio Arévalo 12/15/18 /
Taro
Ichihara 17 (Alfredo)
- Davide Damiani 12/15/18 / Tadamichi Orie
17 (Germont)
- Naomi
Nagata 12/15/18 / Megumi
Kono 17 (Flora).
- Tokyo Philharmonic
Orchestr, Fujiwara Opera Chorus Group
- 12, 15, 17, 18 March
2000 at the Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Cimarosa: Il matrimonio
segreto
- Tokyo Chamber Opera
Theatre
- 14, 15 March 2000 at
Kioi Hall, Tokyo
-
- Heizo Matsumura: Silence (Chinmoku)
- Nikikai Opera and New National
Theatre
- Yutaka
Hoshide (conductor)
- Kei-ichi Nakamura (stage
director)
- Makoto
Tanaka 16 /Tetsuya
Ono 18 (Rodrigo)
- Tasuku Naono 16 / Kazunori
Kubo 18 (Ferriera)
- Susumu Matsumoto 16 / Tetsuya Uno 18
(Valignano)
- Futoru
Katsube 16 / Gudo
Hasui 18 (Kichijiro)
- Hiroshi Kawakami 16/ Horoyuki Yoshida 18
(Mokichi)
- Emi Sawahata 16 / Masaki Saida 18
(Oharu).
- The Tokyo Symphony
Orchestra, Nikikai Chorus Group
- 16, 18 March 2000 at the New National
Theatre Opera House
-
- Rossini: La
Cenerentola
- Tokyo National University of Fine Arts
and Music
- 16, 17 March 2000 at the Tokyo National
University of Fine Arts and Music Sogakudo
-
- Mascagni:
Cavalleria rusticana
- Leoncavallo:
Pagliacci
- New Opera Production
- 24 March 2000 at Nakano Zero Hall, Tokyo
-
- Friedrich Kuhlau:
Lulu
- International Friedrich Kuhlau
Society
- 26 March 2000 at Tokyo Opera City
Concert Hall
-
- Verdi: Un ballo in
maschera
- Hall Opera
- Daniel
Oren (conductor)
- Neil Shicoff (Riccardo)
- Renato Bruson (Renato)
- Michele Crider (Amelia)
- Elena Zaremba (Ulrica)
- Akie Amou
(Oscar)
- Carlo Striuli
(Samuel)
- Hiroki Shimizu
(Tom)
- The Tokyo Symphony
Orchestra with the Tokyo Opera Singers and Fujiwara Opera Chorus
Group,
- 7, 11, 15 April 2000 at Suntory
Hall, Tokyo
-
- Kazuko Hara: Taki
Rentaro [Tokyo Premiere]
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- Yutaka
Hoshide (conductor),
- Shigetaka Matsumoto (stage
director)
- Hiroshi Mochiki / Kazuhiko Ichikawa
(Rentaro)
- Eriko Sekine / Tomoko Akimoto
(Nami)
- Naoko Sunaga / Yuko Kinoshita (Rentaro's
mother)
- Mayumi Fujita / Shinobu Futami (Yuki
Koda)
- Kazuko Koga / Aya Yamaguchi (En
Koda)
- Makoto Fujisawa / Yasushi Nakamura
(Bansui Doi)
- Yasushi Nakamura / Makoto Fujisawa
(Rohan Koda)
- Izumi Furusawa / Ikuo Oho (Toson
Shimazaki)
- (First cast 7 April 2000/ second cast 8
April 2000).
- Japan Shinsei Symphony
Orchestra, Nihon
Opera Kyokai Chorus, Tama Family Singers
- 7, 8 April 2000 at Bunkyo Civic Hall, Tokyo
-
- R Strauss:
Salome
- New National Theatre and Nikikai
Opera
- Hiroshi
Wakasugi (conductor),
- Helmut Lehberger after the original
production by August Everding (production)
- Cynthia Makris 11/14/17 / Mari
Midorikawa 13/16 (Salome)
- Josef Hopferwieser 11/13/17 / Kosuke
Taguchi 14/16 (Herodes)
- Nelly Boschkowa 11/13/17 / Yumi Koyama
14/16 (Herodias)
- Akiya Fukushima 11/14/17 / Teruhiko
Komori 13/16 (Jochanaan)
- Katsumi Narita 11/14/17 / Ryoji
Inoue 13/16 (Narraboth)
- Akemi Obata 11/14/17 / Mami Sugino
(Page).
- The Japan Shinsei
Symphony Orchestra
- 11, 13, 14, 16, 17 April at the New
National Theatre Opera House
-
- Puccini: Turandot
- Bunkamura
- INOUE Michiyoshi (conductor)
- TESHIGAWARA Saburo (direction, set
design, costumes and lighting)
- SHIMOHARA Chieko 14/15 / SATO Motoku 15
(Turandot)
- SUZUKI Kanichi (Altoum)
- HASEGAWA (personal name unidentified)
(Timur)
- Zhao Deng Feng 14/15 FUKUI Kei 16
(Calaf)
- Sue Chen Panariello (Liu)
- MATSUMOTO Susumu (Ping)
- MATSUURA Ken (Pang)
- MAKIKAWA Shuichi (Pong)
- KUBO Kazunori (Mandarin)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo
Opera Singers, Tokyo FM Boys Choir
- 14, 15, 16 April 2000 at Bunkamura
Orchard Hall, Tokyo
-
- Saegusa: Chushingura
[Revised Version Premiere]
- 5, 6 May 2000 at the Aichi
Prefectural Art Theatre, Nagoya
-
- Massenet: Don
Quichotte
- Fujiwara Opera and the New National
Theatre
- Alain Guingal
(conductor),
- Piero Faggioni
(direction and design)
- Ruggero Raimondi (Don
Quichotte)
- Michel Trempont
(Sancho)
- Maria Senn
(Dulcinée)
- Keiko Takemura
(Garcias)
- Satoshi Chubachi
(Juan)
- Noriko Ieda
(Pedro)
- Kazuhiko Ichikawa
(Rodriguez)
- The New National Theatre
and Fujiwara Opera Choruses, The Japan Shinsei Symphony Orchestra,
- 7, 9, 12, 14 May 2000 at the New
National Theatre Opera House
-
- Mozart: Le nozze di
Figaro
- Rohm Opera Theatre
- Seiji Ozawa
(conductor),
- David Kneuss (direction)
- Olaf Bär (Count),
- Christine Goerke
(Countess)
- Nucia Focile
(Susanna)
- Gerald Finley
(Figaro)
- Ruxandra Donose
(Cherubino)
- Judith Christin
(Marcellina)
- Donato di Stefano
(Bartolo)
- Dennis Petersen
(Basilio)
- Antony Laciura
(Curzio)
- Sari Gruber
(Barbarina)
- James Courtney
(Antonio)
- The Seiji
Ozawa Ongaku Juku Choir and Orchestra,
- 1 June 2000 at Kanagawa
Kenmin Hall, Yokohama
- 4, 6 June 2000 at the
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan,
- 11 June 2000 at the
Aichi Prefectural Art Theatre
- 13 June 2000 at the
Osaka Festival Hall
-
- Mozart: Don
Giovanni
- Canadian Baroque Opera
Company Opera Atelier
- 2, 3, 4 June 2000 at the
New National Theatre Play House
-
- Lehár: Die
lustige Witwe
- Operettenbühne
Wien
- 4 June 2000 at the
Festival Hall, Osaka
- 6, 10 June 2000
Bunkamura Orchard Hall, Tokyo
- 19 June 2000 at the
Nerima Bunka Centre, Tokyo
-
- Verdi: La
traviata
- L'Opéra de Monte
Carlo
- Richard Bonynge
(conductor),
- Pier Luigi Pizzi
(director)
- Angela Gheorghiu
(Violetta)
- Giuseppe Filianoti /
Luca Lombardo (Alfredo)
- Renato Bruson
(Germont)
- Erzsebet Erdelyi
(Flora)
- John Nuzzo
(Gastone)
- Michele Govi
(Duphol)
- Enrico Turco
(Grenvil)
- Juan Jesus Rodriguez
(D'Obigny)
- Aldo Bottion
(Giuseppe)
- Marie-José
Dolorian (Annina)
- Orchestre Philharmonique
de Monte Carlo at choeurs de l'Opera de Monte Carlo
- 7 June 2000 at Aichi
Prefectural Arts Theatre, Nagoya
- 10, 13 June 2000 at
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
- 16 June 2000 at the
Osaka Festival Hall
-
- Bizet:
Carmen
- L'Opéra de Monte
Carlo
- Anton Guadagno
(conductor)
- Emilio Sagi
(director)
- Antonio Marquez
(choreography).
- Denyce Graves / Angela
Horn (Carmen)
- Roberto Alagna / Luca
Lombardo (Don José)
- Norah Amsellem/ Danielle
Streiff (Micaela)
- Franck Ferrari / Grant
Youngblood (Escamillo)
- Elena de la Merced
(Frasquita)
- Marie-José
Dolorian (Mercedes)
- René Franck
(Dancairo)
- José-Antonio
Campo (Remendado)
- Sorin Coliban
(Zuniga)
- Jean-Francois Lapointe
(Morales)
- Compania Antonio Marquez
(ballet)
- Orchestre Philharmonique
de Monte Carlo at choeurs de l'Opera de Monte Carlo
- Second cast sang on 12
June.
- 8 June 2000 at the
Aichi Prefectural
Arts Theatre, Nagoya
- 11, 12, 14 June 2000 at
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
- 18 June 2000 at the
Osaka Festival Hall
-
- Kálmán:
Die Zirkusprinzessin
- Keio
- 9, 10, 11 June 2000
at the New National Theatre Play
House
-
- Verdi: Rigoletto
- New National
Theatre
- Renato Palumbo
(conductor),
- Alberto Fassini
(direction and design).
- Alexandru Agache
11, 13, 17, 20 / Tasuku Naono 15, 18 (Rigoletto),
- Andrea Rost 11, 15, 17,
20 / Akie Amou 13, 18 (Gilda),
- Pietro Ballo 11, 13, 18,
20 / Shigehiro Sano 15, 17 (the Duke),
- Masumi Kubota /
Kan-liang Peng (Sparafucile),
- Naomi Nagata / Kayo
Takao (Maddalena),
- Yoshinobu Kuribayashi /
Ryohei Izumi (Monterone),
- Toshiko Shimura / Megumi
Kono (Giovanna),
- Tomohiro Tani / Kazunori
Kubo (Marullo).
- Kazunori Ikemoto /
Toshiaki Murakami (Borsa),
- Takashi Shinpo / Sachio
Yamada (Conte di Ceprano),
- Nina Sasaki / Mina
Kikuchi (Contessa di Ceprano)
- The New National Theatre
Chorus, The Japan Shinsei Symphony Orchestra,
- Unless otherwise
indicated the first cast sang on 11, 15, 18 June and the second
cast on 13, 17, 20 June
- 11, 13, 15, 17, 18, 20
June 2000 at the New National Theatre Opera House
-
- Ikuma Dan Yuzuru
('Evening Crane')
- 11 June 2000 at the
Yokosuka Art Theatre, Yokosuka
-
- Gluck: Orfeo ed
Euridice
- New National Theatre
- 25, 27, 28, 29, 30 June 2000 at the New
National Theatre, The Pit
-
- Donizetti: L'elisir
d'amore
- Showa Music University
- 30 June, 1, 2 July 2000 at the New
National Theatre Play House
-
- Kosuke Kaneko: Tistou,
les pouces verts ('Tistou Green-fingers')
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Keiji Sudo (conductor)
- Yoshikazu Yokoyama (director/librettist)
- Koji Muto (designer)
- Masayo Kageyama / Megumi Saito (Tistou)
- Masanobu Shibayama / Toshihiro Tachibana
(Papa)
- Nobuko Yamamoto /Mariko Ochi (Maman)
- Ikuo Matsuyama / Hakuyo Inoue
(Moustache)
- Hiroaki Murakami / Shoji Sato
(Gymnastique)
- Makoto Fujisawa / Yasushi Nakamura
(Traunadisse)
- Yasuhiro Miura / Sumio Morita
(Mauxdivers/Instituteur)
- Yumiko Kubo / Hirone Zaitsu (Jeune
fille)
- Shimon Suzuki (Carlos)
- First cast July 4/6, second cast July
5/7
- Fujiwara Opera Chorus Group, Tistout
Ensemble,
- 4, 5, 6, 7 July 2000 at the New National
Theatre, The Pit
-
- Puccini: Madama
Butterfly
- The New National Theatre
(for high schools)
- 12, 13, 14, 17, 18 July 2000, New
National Theatre Opera House
-
- My Fair Lady
- Karlin Music Theatre of
Prague
- 7 July 2000 at Omiya Sonic
City
- 13, 14, 15, 16 July 2000 at Tokyo Kosei
Nenkin Hall
- 18 July 2000 at Aichi
Prefectural Arts Theatre, Nagoya
-
- Mozart: Le nozze di
Figaro
- Mozart
Theatre
- 8, 9 July 2000 at the
NNTT Play House)
-
- Mozart: Cosi fan
tutte
- Piccolo Opera
- 14, 15 (matinée/evening)
July 2000
at the Aichi
Prefectural Arts Theatre, Nagoya
-
- Rossini:
Otello
- Tokyo Opera Production
- 20, 21 July
2000, NNTT Play House
-
- Benjamin Britten: A
Midsummer Night's Dream
- Nikikai Opera
- WAKASUGI Hiroshi (conductor)
- KATOU Tadashi (director)
- Regina Eschenberg (designer)
- KAN Yumiko / MITSUHASHI Chizuru
(Oberon)
- MORI Maki / MATSUZONO Mayumi (Tytania)
- HOSHI Yoji / INOUE Ryoji
(Lysander)
- NAGAI Kazuko / OBATA Akemi
(Hermia)
- KURODA Hiroshi / AOTO Satoru
(Demetrius)
- SASAKI Noriko / SAWAHATA Emi
(Helena)
- HASEGAWA Akira / OSAWA Ken
(Theseus)
- TAKEMOTO Setsuko / TOBE Yuko
(Hippolyta)
- MINE Shigeki / MATSUMOTO Susumu (
Quince)
- KONDO Masanobu / YOSHIDA Nobuaki (Flute
)
- MAKIKAWA Shuichi / ONO Mitsuhiko
(Snout).
- MATSUI, Yasushi / FUKUYAMA Izuru
(Starveling)
- TSUTSUI Shuhei / TANI Shigeki (Snug)
- IKEDA Naoki / KOTETSU Kazuhiro (Bottom)
- AIKOU Kumi / HASEGAWA Mitsue (Cobweb)
- KOBAYASHI Nami/ SHIBATA Eriko
(Mustardseed)
- HARA Kumiko / UMINO Mie (Peaseblossom)
- ASANO Mihoko / SUZUKI Yumiko (Moth)
- UCHIDA Shinichiro (Puck)
- [First cast August 4/6, second cast
August 5]
- Nikikai Chorus
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 4, 5, 6 August 2000, Bunkamura
Orchard Hall
-
- Verdi:
Otello
- Tokyo Philharmonic Opera Concertante
series
- Kazushi Ono (conductor )
- John Kayes (Otello)
- Mari Midorikawa (Desdemona)
- Akiya Fukushima (Iago)
- Ken Osawa (Lodovico)
- Hiroyuki Yoshida (Cassio)
- Asako Yoda (Emilia)
- Tokyo Opera Singers
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 18, 20 August 2000, Bunkamura Orchard
Hall
-
- Akira Miyoshi: Toiho
(Faraway Sail)
- Sendai Citizens Cultural
Office
- 3, 4 August 2000, Miyagi
Kenmin Kaikan, Sendai,
- 22, 23 August 2000, Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Wagner: Das
Rheingold
- Tokyo City Philharmonic
Orchestra
- 2 September 2000, Tokyo
Bunka Kaikan
-
- Puccini: La
bohème
- Fujisawa Shimin
Opera
- 2, 3, 9, 10 September
2000, Fujisawa Shimin Kaikan
-
- Rossini: L'inganno
felice
- New National
Theatre
- 7, 8, 9, 10 September
2000, NNTT The Pit
-
- Verdi:
Rigoletto
- Riccardo Muti (conductor)
- Gilbert Deflo (director)
- Ezio Frigerio (design)
- Alberto Gazale (Rigoletto)
- Ramon Vargas (Duke)
- Andrea Rost (Gilda)
- Paata Burchuladze
(Sparafucile)
- Elena Cassian (Maddalena)
- Cinzia De Mola (Giovanna)
- Andrzej Dobber (Monterone)
- Vladimir Stoyanov (Marullo)
- Alessandro Cosentino (Borsa)
- Francesco Musinu (Ceprano)
- Nicoletta Zanini (Contessa di
Ceprano)
- Marilena Laurenza (page)
- Aldo Bramante (usher)
- Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala
- 10, 13, 15, 17, 20 September 2000, NHK
Hall, Tokyo
-
- Kyoko Hagi:
Nigorie
- Konyaku-za
- 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 September 2000,
Sendagaya Public Theatre, Tokyo
-
- Keiichi Kanda: Does
clone Juliet dream of Romeo?
- 15 September 2000,
Nakano Zero Hall, Tokyo
-
- Verdi: La forza del
destino
- Riccardo Muti (conductor)
- Hugo de Ana (producer)
- Cast: Maria Guleghina
(Leonora)
- Salvatore Licitra (Alvaro)
- Ambrogio Maestri (Carlo)
- Luciana D'Intino
(Preziosilla)
- Roberto de Candia (Fra
Melitone)
- Enzo Capuana (Calatrava)
- Julian Konstantinov
(Guardiano)
- Tiziana Tramonti (Curra)
- Alberto Noli (Alcade),
- Ernesto Gavazzi (Trabuco)
- Ernesto Panariello (a
surgeon)
- Orchestra and Chorus of La
Scala
- 16, 19, 21, 24 September 2000, Tokyo
Bunka Kaikan
-
- Puccini:
Tosca
- New National
Theatre
- Marcello Viotti (conductor)
- Antonello Madau Diaz (director)
- Sylvie Valayre / Yasuko Hayashi (Tosca)
- Alfredo Cupido / Shigehiro Sano
(Cavaradossi)
- Juan Pons / Tasuku Naono (Scarpia)
- Katsuji Miura / Akira Hasegawa
(Angelotti )
- Sachio Yamada / Takashi Shinpo
(sacristan)
- Ken Matsuura / Kazunori Ikemoto
(Spoletta)
- Makoto Ohkubo / Shigeki Mine (Sciarrone)
- Naoki Ikeda / Yasushi Nakamura (gaoler)
- Tomoko Omori / Kaori Hirai (shepherd
boy)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 21, 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30 September
2000, NNTT Opera House
-
- Verdi:
Requiem
- Riccardo Muti (conductor),
- Miriam Gauci, Violeta
Urmana, Fabio Sartori, Roberto Scandiuzzi
- Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala,
- 22, 23 September 2000,
NHK Hall, Tokyo
-
- Donizetti: L'elisir
d'amore
- 23 September 2000, Aichi
Prefectural Arts Theatre, Nagoya
-
- Verdi:
Otello
- The Citizenry of Tokyo
Opera Society
- 28, 29 September 2000,
Yupoto Kanihoken Hall, Tokyo
-
- Lehár: Die
lustige Witwe
- Nihon Operetta
Kyokai
- 30 September, 1 October
2000, Hokutopia, Tokyo
-
- Mozart; Die
Zauberflöte
- New National Theatre, Tokyo
- 10, 12, 14, 15, 16 October 2000, NNTT
Opera House
-
- Mozart: Don
Giovanni
- Moscow Chamber Musical
Theatre
- 12 October 2000, Tokyo International
Forum
-
- Mozart:
Idomeneo
- Tokyo University of Arts &
Music
- 12, 13 October 2000, Tokyo University of
Arts and Music Sogakudo
-
- Puccini: Madama
Butterfly
- Hungarian State
Opera
- 13 October 2000, Kobe Kokusai Kaikan,
- 14 October 2000, Festival Hall, Osaka,
- 21, 22 October 2000, Bunkamura Orchard
Hall)
- 30 October 2000, Musashino Shimin Bunka
Kaikan, Tokyo
-
- Debussy: Pelléas
et Mélisande
- Japan Shinsei Symphony
Orchestra
- Pascal Verrot (conductor)
- Didier
Henry (Pelléas)
- Mari
Midorikawa (Mélisande)
- Jean-Philippe
Marlière (Golaud)
- Naoki Ikeda (Arkel)
- Chieko Teratani
(Geneviève)
- Michiko Hayashi (Yniold)
- Japan Shinsei Symphony
Orchestra
- 13 October 2000, Suntory Hall, Tokyo
- 15 October 2000, Tokyo Metropolitan Art
Space, Tokyo
-
- Monteverdi:
L'incoranazione di Poppea
- Moscow Chamber Musical
Theatre
- 14 October 2000, Tokyo International
Forum
-
- Ikuma Dan:
Susanoo/Takeru
- 15 October 2000, Kanagawa Kenmin Hall,
Yokohama
-
- R Struass: Ariadne auf
Naxos
- Vienna State Opera
- Giuseppe Sinopoli
(conductor)
- Filippo Sanjust (producer)
- Waldemar Kmentt (Major-Domo)
- Agnes Baltsa (Composer)
- Jon Villars (Tenor/Bacchus)
- Edita Gruberova (Zerbinetta)
- Cheryl Studer (Primadonna/Ariadne)
- Orchestra and Chorus of the Vienna State
Opera
- 22, 25, 28 October 2000, Kanagawa Kenmin
Hall, Yokohama
-
- Tchaikovsky: Eugene
Onegin
- New National Theatre co-production with
the Fujiwara Opera
- Stefano Ranzani (conductor)
- Boris Pokrovsky (director)
- Valery Levental (designer)
- Galina Gorchakova / Taemi Kohama 3, 7
(Tatyana)
- Roberto Servile / Ikuo Oshima 2, 7
(Onegin)
- Zoran Todorovich / Hiroshi Mochiki 2, 7
(Lensky)
- Irina Romishevskaya / Naomi Nagata 3, 7
(Olga)
- Paata Burchuladze /Yasuhiro Sato 2, 7
(Gremin)
- Aiko Kori / Kyoko Moriyama 3, 8
(Larina)
- Michiko Taguchi / Megumi Kono 3, 7
(Filipyevna)
- Katsuji Miura / Masumi Kubota 2, 5, 8
(Zaretsky)
- Ken Matsuura / Kazuhiro Tsunoda 2, 5 , 8
(Triquet)
- Yasushi Nakamura (captain), Tokyo
Philharmonic Orchestra
- 30 October, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 November 2000,
New National Theatre Tokyo, Opera House
-
- Lehár: Die
lustige Witwe
- Vienna State
Opera
- Jun Märkl (conductor)
- Andrei Serban (director)
- Wilhelm Holzbauer (designer)
- Cast: Waldemar Kmentt
(Mirko)
- Angelika Kirschlager
(Valencienne)
- Eliane Coelho (Hanna)
- Thomas Hampson (Danilo)
- Mathias Zachariassen
(Camille)
- Fritz Muliar (Njegus)
- Orchestra and Chorus of the Vienna State
Opera
- 1, 4, 7, 10 November 2000, Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Bizet:
Carmen
- 3 November (Nikikai
Opera/Shinjuku Bunka Centre, Tokyo)
-
- Donizetti: Linda di
Chamounix
- Vienna State Opera
- Bruno Campanella (conductor)
- August Everding (director)
- Philippe Arlaud (designer)
- Edita Gruberova (Linda)
- Giuseppe Sabbatini (Carlo)
- Thomas Hampson (Antonio)
- Egilis Silins ('Der
Prafekt')
- Alfonso Antoniozzi
(Boisfleury)
- Svetlana Serdar (Pierotto)
- Orchestra and Chorus of the Vienna State
Opera
- 5, 8, 11 November, NHK Hall,
Tokyo
-
- Manfred Gurlitt:
Wozzeck
- Yomiuri Nippon Symphony
Orchestra
- Gerd Albrecht (conductor)
- Roland Hermann (Wozzeck)
- Mari Midorikawa (Marie)
- Akiya Fukushima (Captain)
- Mitsuya Okubo (Drum Major)
- Satoru Omachi (Doctor)
- Kei Fukui (Andres)
- Megumi Isaka (Margaret)
- Jun Takahashi (Jude)
- Mika Shigematsu (old woman)
- Yomiuri Nippon Symphony
Orchestra
- Nikikai Chorus Group and the Little
Singers of Tokyo
- 7 November 2000, Suntory Hall,
Tokyo
-
- Maki Ishii: Das Schiff
ohne Augen
- Nissay
Theatre
- 13, 14 November 2000,
Nissay Theatre, Tokyo
-
- Rossini: Il viaggio a
Reims
- Tokyo Opera
Produce
- 16 November 2000,
Hokutopia, Tokyo
-
- Mascagni: Cavalleria
Rusticana
- Leoncavallo:
Pagliacci
- LIP
- 18 November 2000, Komaba
Eminasu, Tokyo
-
- Mozart: Cosi fan
tutte
- Nuovo Piccolo di Milano Teatro
d'Europa
- Giorgio Stehler (director)
- 22, 23, 25, 26 November 2000, Nissay
Theatre, Tokyo
-
- Tristan und
Isolde
- Berlin
Philharmonic
- Claudio
Abbado (conductor)
- Klaus Michael Grüber
(director)
- Eduardo Arroyo (designer)
- Jon Frederick West (Tristan)
- Deborah Polaski (Isolde)
- Laszlo Polgar (King Mark)
- Albert Dohmen (Kurwenal)
- Lioba Braun (Brangäne)
- Ralf Lucas (Melot)
- Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra and European
Festival Chorus
- 23, 27 November, 1 December 2000, Tokyo
Bunka Kaikan
-
- Bluebeard's Castle (A
kékszakállú herceg vára)
- New National Theatre
- Taijiro Iimori (conductor)
- Götz
Friedrich (director)
- Hans Schavenoch (designer)
- Richard Cowan / Satoru Aoto 26
(Bluebeard)
- Kristine Ciesinski / Misako Watanabe 26
(Judith)
- Tadahiko Hirano (Prologue)
- Japan Shinsei Symphony
Orchestra
- 24, 26, 27, 29 November 2000, NNTT Play
House
-
- Verdi: Giovanna
d'Arco
- Biwako Hall Produce
Opera
- 25, 26 November 2000,
Biwako Hall, Shiga
-
- Ikuma Dan: Yuzuru
('Evening Crane')
- Hiroaki Masuda (conductor)
- Tamiya Kuriyama (director)
- Yukio Horio (designer)
- Yumiko Samejima / Hisara Sato
(Tsu)
- Makoto Tashiro / Yoji Hoshi
(Yohyo)
- Masato Makino / Hiroshi Kudo
(Unzu)
- Naoki Ikeda / Katsuji Miura
(Sodo)
- second cast 3 December
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and
Suginami Children Chorus
- 2, 3, 5, December 2000, NNTT, Opera
House
-
- Ikuma Dan:
Chanchiki
- Kotaro Sato (conductor)
- Tadashi Kato (director)
- Kazuyoshi Kushida (designer)
- Futoru Katsube (Father Fox)
- Masako Saida (Father Fox disguised as a
woman)
- Eri Unoki (Boy Fox)
- Toshihiko Yamaguchi (Otter)
- Misako Amada (Otter's Wife)
- Kanagawa Philharmonic
Orchestra
- Tokyo Opera Singers, Coro Kallos and
Yokohama City Chorus
- 8, 10 December 2000, Kanagawa Kenmin
Hall, Yokohama
-
- Puccini:
Turandot
- The National Opera of Sofia
- 9, 10, 11 December 2000, Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Janacek: Kat'a
Kabanova
- Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
- Kazuyoshi Akiyama
(conductor)
- Anda Louise Bogza (Kat'a)
- Petr Strnad (Boris)
- Jan Jezek (Tichon)
- Ales Briscejn (Kudrjas)
- Eva Garajova (Varvara)
- Ivona Skvarova (Kabanicha)
- Akira Hasegawa (Dikoj)
- Mitsuya Okubo (Kuligin)
- Yuko Tobe (Glasa)
- Tomoko Oshimi (Feklusa)
- The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and
Chorus
- 12 December 2000,
Suntory Hall, Tokyo
-
- Ponchielli: La
gioconda
- The National Opera of Sofia
- 14, 15, 16 December 2000, New National
Theatre Opera House
-
- Lortzing: Der
Opernprobe
- Weber: Abu
Hassan
- New National Theatre
- 23, 24, 25, 26 December 2000, NNTT The
Pit
-
- NOTE: This list is incomplete and
probably will always be so.
- The cast lists are those that were
published and announced.
- In some cases they may subsequently have
changed.
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- Opera
japonica 18/5/2003
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