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-
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- from 1980 to
1989 (all companies)
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- 1980
-
- Puccini: La
bohème
- The Fujiwara
Opera
- 15, 16, 17 February 1980 at the Tokyo
Yubinchokin Hall
-
- Bizet: Les
pêcheurs de perles (Japanese premiere)
- The Fujiwara
Opera
- 1, 2, 3 March 1980 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Donizetti: L'elisir
d'amore
- The Fujiwara
Opera
- 24, 25, 26 September 1980 at Shinjuku
Bunka Centre
-
- Mozart: Le nozze di
Figaro
- Wiener Staatsoper
- Karl Böhm (conductor)
- Helge Thoma (producer)
- Bernd Weikl / Hans Helm (Count)
- Gundula Janowitz (Countess)
- Lucia Popp (Susanna)
- Herman Prey (Figaro)
- Agnes Baltsa (Cherubino)
- Margarita Lilowa (Marcellina)
- Heinz Zednik (Basilio)
- Kurt Equiluz / Anton Wendler (Don
Curzio)
- Kurt Rydl (Bartolo)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Wiener
Staatsoper
- 30 Sep, 3, 28 Oct 1980 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
- 21, 24 Oct 1980 at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall,
Yokohama
- 13, 17 Oct 1980 at Festival Hall,
Osaka
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- R Strauss: Salome
- Wiener Staatsoper
- Heinrich Hollreiser / Horst Stein
(conductor)
- Boleslaw Barlog (producer)
- Hans Beirer (Herod)
- Gertrude Jahn / Margarita Lilowa
(Herodias)
- Leonie Rysanek / Karan Armstrong
(Salome)
- Peter Wimberger / Bernd Weikl (Jokanaan)
- Josef Hopferwieser (Narraboth)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Wiener
Staatsoper
- 2, 4, 11, 22 Oct 1980 at NHK Hall,
Tokyo
- 15 Oct 1980 at Festival Hall,
Osaka
-
- Mozart: Die
Entführung aus dem Serail
- Wiener Staatsoper
- Theodor Guschlbauer (conductor)
- Dieter Dorn (producer)
- Curt Jürgens (Selim)
- Edita Gruberova / Patricia Wise
(Konstanze)
- Elfriede Höbarth (Blonde)
- Thomas Moser (Belmonte)
- Heinz Zednik / Wilfried Gahmlich
(Pedrillo)
- Kurt Rydl / Helmut Berger-Tuna (Osmin)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Wiener
Staatsoper
- 7, 10, 20 Oct 1980 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- R Strauss: Ariadne auf
Naxos
- Wiener Staatsoper
- Karl Böhm / Berislav Klobucar /
Horst Stein (conductor)
- Kurt Heintel (Major-Domo)
- Gert Feldhoff (Music Master)
- Agnes Baltsa (Composer)
- James King (Tenor/Bacchus)
- Karl Terkal (Officer)
- Edita Gruberova / Patricia Wise
(Zerbinetta)
- Gundula Janowitz / Sabine Hass
(Primadonna/Ariadne)
- Hans Helm (Harlekin)
- Kurt Equiluz / Anton Wendler
(Scaramuccio)
- Kurt Rydl (Truffaldin)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Wiener
Staatsoper
- 9, 25 Oct 1980 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
- 14, 16 Oct 1980 at Festival Hall,
Osaka
-
- R Strauss:
Elektra
- Wiener Staatsoper
- Berislav Klobucar (conductor)
- Grace Hoffman
(Klytemnästra)
- Birgit Nilsson (Elektra)
- Leonie Rysanek
(Chrysothemis)
- Hans Beirer / James King
(Aegisth)
- Gert Feldhoff (Orest)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Wiener
Staatsoper
- 19, 23, 27 Oct 1980 at NHK Hall,
Tokyo
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- Mozart: Cosi fan
tutte
- The Fujiwara
Opera
- 20, 21, 22 November 1980 at Shinjuku
Bunka Centre
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- 1981
-
- Takagi, Toroku: Tojin
Okichi
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 2, 3 March 1981 at Yubin Chokin Hall,
Tokyo
-
- Bellini: I Capuleti e I
Montecchi (Japanese premiere)
- The Fujiwara
Opera
- 14, 15, 16 March 1981 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Bekku, Sadao: Aoinoue
(Premiere)
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 14, 15 July 1981 at Shinjuku Bunka
Center, Tokyo
-
- Puccini: Madama
Butterfly
- The Fujiwara
Opera
- 22, 23, 24 July 1981 at Shinjuku Bunka
Centre
-
- Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
- Teatro alla Scala
- Claudio Abbado (conductor)
- Giorgio Strehler (director)
- Piero Cappuccilli (Simon Boccanegra)
- Mirella Freni (Maria /Amelia)
- Nicolai Ghiaurov (Jacopo Fiesco)
- Veriano Lucchetti (Gabriele Adorno)
- Felice Schiavi (Paolo Albiani)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla
Scala, Milan
- 1, 4, 7, 10 Sep 1981 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Verdi: Otello
- Teatro alla Scala
- Carlos Kleiber (conductor)
- Franco Zeffirelli (director)
- Anna Tomowa-Sintow (Desdemona)
- Placido Domingo (Otello)
- Silvano Calori (Iago)
- Stefania Malagu (Emilia)
- Ezio Di Cesare (Cassio)
- Ermanno Lorenzi (Roderigo)
- Luigi loni (Lodovico)
- Orazio Mori (Montano)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla
Scala, Milan
- 2, 5, 8 Sep 1981 at NHK Hall, Tokyo
-
- Verdi: Messa Da
Requiem
- Claudio Abbado (conductor)
- Mirella Freni / Anna Tomowa-Sintow
(soprano)
- Lucia Valentini-Terrani (mezzo
soprano)
- Veriano Lucchetti (tenor)
- Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla
Scala, Milan
- 3, 11 Sep 1981 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Puccini: La
bohème
- Teatro alla Scala
- Carlos Kleiber / Bruno Rigacci
(conductor)
- Franco Zeffirelli (director)
- Mirella Freni / Jossera Ligi (Mimi)
- Peter Dvorsky (Rodolfo)
- Margherita Gulielmi / Fiorella Pediconi
(Musetta)
- Lorenzo Saccomani / Leo Nucci (Marcello)
- Antonio Salvadori (Schaunard)
- Paolo Washington (Colline)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla
Scala, Milan
- 15, 17, 19, 21 Sep 1981 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
- 25, 27 Sep 1981 at Festival Hall,
Osaka
- 30 Sep 1981 Yokohama
-
- Rossini: Il barbiere di
Siviglia
- Teatro alla Scala, Milan
- Claudio Abbado (conductor)
- Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
(director)
- Lucia Valentini-Terrani (Rosina)
- Flansisco Aleisa (Almaviva)
- Leo Nucci (Figaro)
- Enzo dalla (Bartolo)
- Ferruccio Fluranet (Don Basilio)
- Orazio Mori (Fiorello)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla
Scala, Milan
- 16, 18, 20, 22 Sep 1981 at NHK Hall,
Tokyo
-
- Makino, Yutaka: Anju to
Zushio
- Oguri, Hiroshi:
Akaijinbaori
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 20 September 1, 2 October 1981 at
Asakusa Kokaido, Tokyo
-
- Verdi:
Rigoletto
- The Fujiwara
Opera
- 17, 18, 19 November 1981 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
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- 1982
-
- Verdi: La
traviata
- The Fujiwara
Opera
- 20, 21, 22 February 1982 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Donizetti: Anna Bolena
(Japanese premiere)
- The Fujiwara
Opera
- 6, 9, 13 July 1982 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Ogura, Akira: Neta
- Akutagawa, Yasushi:
Orpheus of Hiroshima
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 23, 24, 25 September 1982 at the
(former) Toshi Center Hall, Tokyo
-
- Puccini: Il
Trittico
- The Fujiwara
Opera
- 29, 30 November, 1 December 1982 at
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
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- 1983
-
- Puccini:
Tosca
- The Fujiwara
Opera
- 5, 6, 7 February 1983 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Ishii, Kan: Kesa to
Morito
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 2, 3 March 1983 at Yubin Chokin Hall,
Tokyo
-
- Mizuno, Shuko: Tenshu
Monogatari (The Tale of Himeji Castle)
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 25, 26 May 1983 at Shinjuku Bunka
Center, Tokyo
-
- Donizetti: Lucia di
Lammermoor
- The Fujiwara
Opera
- 18, 20, 21 June 1983 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Aoshima, Hiroshi:
Tasogare wa Oma no Jikan
- Ikebe, Shinichiro:
Shinigami
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
5, 6, 7 October 1983 at the (former)
Toshi Center Hall
-
- Weill: Aufstieg und Fall
der Stadt Mahagonny (Japanese premiere)
- The Fujiwara
Opera
- 14, 15, 16 October 1983 (4 performances)
Nihon Toshi Centre Hall
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- 1984
-
- Puccini: Madama
Butterfly
- The Fujiwara
Opera
- 24, 25, 26 February 1984 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Miki, Minoru: Ada, An
Actor's Revenge
- (Japanese Version
Premiere)
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 25, 26 May 1984 at Shinjuku Bunka
Center, Tokyo
Note: Kon Ichikawa's classic1962 film Yukinojohenge (An Actor's
Revenge) was based on a novel of the same name by Otokichi Mikami,
The opera by Minoru Miki was composed with an English text by
James Kirkup which received its premiere at the Old Vic in London
in1979. It was subsequently performed in St.Louis in1981. The
first performance in Japanese was in 1984.
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- Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
(Japanese premiere)
- The Fujiwara
Opera
- 12, 15, 18 June 1984 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Puccini:
Tosca
- The Fujiwara
Opera
- 29, 30 September 1984 at Osaka
Koseinenkin Kaikan
-
- Hara, Kazuko: Iwai Uta
ga Nagareru Yoruni (Premiere)
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 5, 6 October 1984 at Sunshine Theater,
Tokyo
-
- 1985
-
- Bizet:
Carmen
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Giuseppe Morelli (conductor)
- Yasuhiko Aguni (director)
- Naoko Ihara / Kumiko Yoshii
(Carmen)
- Makoto Hayashi / Gianni Iaia (Don
José)
- Yoshinobu Kuribayashi / Koichi Tajima
(Escamillo)
- Hiroko Motomiya / Masami Okumura
(Micaela)
- Meiko Oshima / Nobuko Fujita
(Frasquita)
- Aiko Kori / Shinko Date
(Mercedes)
- Keizo Takahashi / Toshio Nagano
(Zuniga)
- Hiroshi Kudo / Tsuyoshi Onaga
(Morales)
- Tasuo Morita / Soji Fujii
(Remendado)
- Naoki Sakurai / Taichi Uchiyama
(Dancairo)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 9, 10, 11 March 1985 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Puccini: Madama
Butterfly
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Michelangelo Veltri
(conductor)
- Yasuhiko Aguni (director)
- Yoko Watanabe / Yasuko Sato
(Butterfly)
- Renato Grimaldi (Pinkerton)
- Koichi Tajima / Kenji Kojima
(Sharpless)
- Riseko Urano / Aiko Kori
(Suzuki)
- Mitsugi Oikawa / Toshiaki Nanjo
(Goro)
- Susumu Matsumoto / Naoki Sunada
(Bonze)
- Hiroyuki Okayama / Taichi Uchiyama
(Yamadori)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 10, 11 July 1985 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Miki, Minoru:
Shunkinsho
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 24,25 October 1985 at Shinjuku Bunka
Center, Tokyo
-
- Puccini: Manon
Lescaut
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Anton Guadagno (conductor)
- Flavio Trevisan (director)
- Yasuko Hayashi (Manon
Lescaut)
- Giulio Bardi (Lescaut)
- Gaetano Scano (Des Grieux)
- Hiroyuki Okayama (Geronte)
- Susumu Irie (Edmondo)
- Shinsei Nihon Symphony
Orchestra
- 1, 4, 6 November 1985 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Shimizu, Osamu: Shuzenji
Monogatari
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 9,10 November 1985 at Aichi Bunka Kodo,
Nagoya
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- 1986
-
- Verdi: Un ballo in
maschera
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Armando Gatto (conductor)
- Yasuhiko Aguni (director)
- Taro Ichihara / Manuel Contreras
(Riccardo)
- Elia Padovan / Yoshinobu Kuribayashi
(Renato)
- Keiko Kataoka / Eiko Katanosaka
(Amelia)
- Kyoko Makino / Riseko Urano
(Ulrica)
- Hiroko Motomiya / Tomoko Matsumoto
(Oscar)
- Toshihiko Komatsu / Katsuji Miura
(Silvano)
- Dilvo Storti / Hiroyuki Okayama
(Samuel)
- Keizo Takahashi / Sachio Yamada
(Tom)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 4, 5, 6, February 1986 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Hara, Kazuko: Shita wo
Kamikitta Onna (Premiere)
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 21, 22 May 1986 at Shinjuku Bunka
Center, Tokyo
-
- Puccini: La
bohème
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Michelangelo Veltri
(conductor)
- Paolo Trevisi (director)
- Yoko Watanabe / Kyoko Tsukada
(Mimi)
- Ottavio Garaventa (Rodolfo)
- Yoshinobu Kuribayashi / Kenji Kojima
(Marcello)
- Hiroko Motomiya / Hiromi Hayashi
(Musetta)
- Akihito Shikano / Naoki Sakurai
(Schaunard)
- Hiroyuki Okayama / Toshihiko Yamaguchi
(Colline)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 6, 8, 10 July 1986 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Bekku, Sadao: Sannin no
Onnatachi no Monogatari
- Shimizu, Osamu:
Shunkan
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 12, 13 September 1986 at Yubin Chokin
Hall, Tokyo
-
- Puccini:
Turandot
- The Royal
Opera
- Jacques Delacote (conductor)
- Andrei Serban (producer)
- Sally Jacobs (designer)
- Cynthia Haymon (Liu)
- Roderick Kennedy (Timur)
- Franco Bonisolli (Calaf)
- Orazio Mori (Ping)
- Robin Leggate (Pang)
- Francis Egerton (Pong)
- John Dobson (Altoum)
- Olivia Stapp (Turandot)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal
Opera
- 15, 21, 26 September 1986 at NHK Hall,
Tokyo
- 29 September, 2 October1986 at Festival
Hall, Osaka
-
- Bizet:
Carmen
- The Royal
Opera
- Mark Ermler (conductor)
- Michael Geliot (production)
- Jenny Beavan (designer)
- Joanna Borovska
(Micaëla)
- José Carreras (Don
José)
- Agnes Baltsa (Carmen)
- Judith Howarth (Frasquita)
- Anne Mason (Mercedes)
- Gino Quilco (Escamillo)
- John Dobson (Dancairo)
- Francis Egerton (Remendado)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal
Opera
- 18, 22, 27 September, 4 October1986 at
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
- 1 October 1886 at Festival Hall,
Osaka
- 7 October 1986 at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall,
Yokohama
- 10 October 1986 at NHK Hall,
Tokyo
-
- Saint-Saëns: Samson
et Dalila
- The Royal
Opera
- Jacques Delacote (conductor)
- Elijah Moshinsky(producer)
- Sidney Nolan (designer)
- Jon Vickers (Samson)
- Roderick Earle (Abimelech)
- Paul Crook (1st Philistine)
- Gordon Sandison (2nd
Philistine)
- Jonathan Summers (High Priest of
Dagon)
- John Dobson (Messenger)
- Roderick Kennedy (Ancient
Hebrew)
- Elena Obraztsova (Dalila)
- Kevin Mathurin (Philistine
child)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal
Opera
- 20, 23, 25 September 1986 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Mozart: Cosi fan
tutte
- The Royal
Opera
- Gabrielle Ferro (conductor)
- John Copley (producer)
- John Aler (Ferrando)
- William Shimell (Guglielmo)
- Walter Berry (Alfonso)
- Kiri te Kanawa (Fiodiligi)
- Anne Sofie von Otter
(Dorabella)
- Lilian Watson (Despina)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal
Opera
- 6, 8, 11 October 1986 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Puccini: Le villi
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Yutaka Hoshide (conductor)
- Yasuhiko Aguni (director)
- Atsuko Azuma(Anna)
- Yoshihisa Yamaji (Roberto)
- Koichi Tajima (Guglielmo)
- Hiroyuki Okayama (Narrator)
- and
- Mascagni: Cavalleria
Rusticana
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Sho Fukumori (conductor)
- Yasuhiko Aguni (director)
- Fumiko Mochiki / Shinko Date
(Santuzza)
- Renato Grimaldi / Hiroshi Mochiki
(Turiddu)
- Naomi Nagata / Takako Azami
(Lola)
- Yoshinobu Kuribayashi / Naoki Sakurai
(Alfio)
- Riseko Urano / Shigeru Sawa
(Lucia)
- Shinsei Nihon Symphony
Orchestra
- 11, 12, 13 November 1986 at Shinjuku
Bunka Center
-
- 1987
-
- Donizetti: Lucia di
Lammermoor
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Alberto Ventura (conductor)
- Mario Licalsi (director)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- Masako Deguchi (Lucia)
- Taro Ichihara (Edgardo)
- Kenji Kojima (Enrico)
- Hiroshi Mochiki (Arturo)
- Hiroyuki Okayama (Raimondo)
- Fumiko Mochiki / Aiko Kori
(Alisa)
- Makoto Tashiro (Normanno)
- 6, 8, 11, February 1987 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Mizuno, Shuko: Tenshu
Monogatari (The Tale of Himeji Castle)
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 14, 15 May 1987 at Shinjuku Bunka
Center, Tokyo
-
- Verdi:
Rigoletto
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Armando Gatto (conductor)
- Francesco Privitera
(director)
- Licinio Montefusco
(Rigoletto)
- Vincenzo Bello (Duke)
- Masako Deguchi (Gilda)
- Sachio Yamada (Sparafucile)
- Kyoko Makino (Maddalena)
- Kenji Kojima (Monterone)
- Hiroshi Mochiki (Borsa)
- Tasuku Hasegawa (Marullo)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 5, 8, 11 July 1987 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Verdi: Il
trovatore
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Alberto Ventura (conductor)
- Yasuhiko Aguni (director)
- Mauro Augustini (di Luna)
- Yasuko Hayashi (Leonora)
- Fiorenza Cossotto (Azucena)
- Giorgio Lamberti (Manrico)
- Hiroshi Mochiki (Ruiz)
- Sachio Yamada (vecchio
zingaro)
- Kazuhiko Ichikawa (messo)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 11, 17 October 1987 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Wagner: Der Ring des
Nibelungen (Complete cycle Japanese
premiere)
- Deutsche Oper Berlin
- Jesus Lopez Cobos (1.2), Heinrich
Hollreiser (3) (conductor)
- Götz Friedrich
(director)
- Peter Sykora (designer)
- Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche
Oper Berlin
- Wagner: Das
Rheingold
- Robert Hale (1.2) / Donald McIntyre (3)
(Wotan)
- Gerd Feldhoff (Donner)
- Toni Krämer (Froh)
- George Shirley (Loge)
- Gottfried Hornik (1.2) / Rolf Kühne
(3) (Alberich)
- John Dobson (1) / Horst Hiestermann
(2.3) (Mime)
- Matti Salminen (Fasolt)
- Bengt Rundgren (Fafner)
- Ute Walther (1.3) / Diane Curry (2)
(Fricka)
- Lucy Peacock (Freia)
- Jadwiga Rappé (Erda)
- Carol Malone (Woglinde)
- Barbara Vogel (Wellgunde)
- Anita Herrmann (Flosshilde)
- Wagner: Die
Walküre
- Warren Ellsworth (1) / Siegfried
Jerusalem (2.3) (Siegmund)
- Matti Salminen (1.2) / John Tomlinson
(3) (Hunding)
- Robert Hale (1.2) / Donald McIntyre (3)
(Wotan)
- Julia Varady (Sieglinde)
- Ute Walther (1.3) / Diane Curry (2)
(Fricka)
- Catarina Ligendza (1.2) / Ute Vinzing
(3) (Brünnhilde)
- Sharon Sweet (Helmwige)
- Lucy Peacock (Gerhilde)
- Barbara Vogel (Ortlinde)
- Annabelle Bernerd (Waltraute)
- Yoko Nomura (Siegrune)
- Anita Herrmann (Rossweisse)
- Barbara Scerler (Grimgerde)
- Kaja Borris (Schwertleite)
- Wagner: Siegfried
- René Kollo
(Siegfried)
- John Dobson (1) / Horst Hiestermann
(2.3) (Mime)
- Robert Hale (1.2) / Donald McIntyre (3)
(Wotan/Wanderer)
- Gottfried Hornik (1.2) / Rolf Kühne
(3) (Alberich)
- Bengt Rundgren (Fafner)
- Jadwiga Rappé (Erda)
- Catarina Ligendza (1.2) / Ute Vinzing
(3) (Brünnhilde)
- Gabrielyn Watson (Waldvogel)
- Wagner:
Götterdämmerung (Japanese
premiere)
- René Kollo
(Siegfried)
- Lenus Carlson (Gunther)
- Gottfried Hornik (1.2) / Rolf Kühne
(3) (Alberich)
- Matti Salminen (1.2) / John Tomlinson
(3) (Hagen)
- Catarina Ligendza (1.2) / Ute Vinzing
(3) (Brünnhilde)
- Karan Armstrong (Gutrune)
- Ute Walther (Waltraute)
- Kaja Borris (Erste Norn)
- Annabelle Bernerd (Zweite
Norn)
- Sharon Sweet (Dritte Norn)
- Carol Malone (Woglinde)
- Barbara Vogel (Wellgunde)
- Anita Herrmann (Flosshilde)
- Numbers refer to the three
cycles:
- 1st Cycle 17, 19, 22, 25 Oct 1987 at
Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Yokohama
- 2nd Cycle 30 Oct 1, 4, 7 Nov 1987 at
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
- 3rd Cycle 8, 10, 12, 15 Nov 1987 at
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
-
- Shimizu, Osamu: Shuzenji
Monogatari
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 5, 6 December 1987 at Itabashi-kuritsu
Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo
-
- 1988
-
- Verdi: La
traviata
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Edoardo Müller
(conductor)
- Giam Paolo Zennaro
(director)
- Masako Deguchi / Masako Saida
(Violetta)
- Yoshihisa Yamaji / Saburo Nagasawa /
Kazuhiro Tsunoda (Alfredo)
- Kenji Kojima / Tadamichi Orie (Giorgio
Germont)
- Fumiko Mochiki / Naomi Nagata / Kyoko
Moriyama (Flora)
- Hiroshi Mochiki / Makoto Tashiro
(Gastone)
- Hiroyuki Okayama (Douphol)
- Akihito Shikano / Toshihiko Komatsu
(D'Obigny)
- Yasuo Yanagisawa (Grenvil)
- Shigeru Sawa / Hiroko Ito
(Annina)
- Kazuhiko Ichikawa / Ken Matsuura
(Giuseppe)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 21, 23, 25 February at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
- 2, 3, March 1988 at Shinjuku Bunka
Center
-
- Ishii, Kan: Kesa to
Morito
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 24, 25 March 1988 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Offenbach: Les contes
d'Hoffmann
- Metropolitan
Opera
- J. Levine (conductor)
- Domingo (Hoffmann)
- E. Mills (Olympia)
- Dupuy (Giulietta)
- R. Alexander (Antonia)
- Je. Anderson (Stella)
- Morris
(Lindorf/Coppélius/Dappertutto/Miracle)
- Quittmeyer (Nicklausse/Muse)
- A. Laciura
(Andrés/Cochenille/Pitichinaccio/Frantz)
- Malas (Luther)
- Ma. Baker (Nathanael)
- Bernard (Hermann)
- Velis (Spalanzani)
- Mo. Meredith (Schlemil)
- Van Allan (Crespel)
- Bean (Mother's Voice)
- 25, 28 May, I June 1988 in
Tokyo
- 7 June 1988 in Nagoya
- 10 June 1988 in Osaka
-
- Mozart: Le nozze di
Figaro
- Metropolitan
Opera
- J. Levine (conductor)
- Ponnelle (director/designer)
- Cheek (Figaro)
- Battle (27, 31 May, 3 June)/ Hong (9
June) (Susanna)
- Hampson (Almaviva)
- Vaness (Rosina)
- D. Montague (Cherubino)
- Korn (Bartolo)
- Di Franco (Marcellina)
- Sénéchal
(Basilio)
- Courtney (Antonio)
- Upshaw (Barbarina)
- Velis (Curzio)
- 27, 31 May, 3 June 1988 in
Tokyo
- 9 June 1988 in Osaka
-
- Verdi: Il
trovatore
- Metropolitan
Opera
- Rudel (conductor)
- Bonisolli (Manrico)
- A. Millo (Leonora)
- S. Milnes (Di Luna)
- Cossotto (Azucena)
- De Grandis (Ferrando)
- Wray (Ines)
- Ma. Baker (29 May, 2 June)/ C. Anthony
(June 5, 8) (Ruiz)
- Apy (Messenger)
- R. Crolius (Gypsy)
- 29 May, 2, 5 June 1988 in
Tokyo
- 8 June 1988 in Nagoya
-
- Verdi:
Macbeth
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Michelangelo Veltri
(conductor)
- Paolo Trevisi (director)
- Justino Diaz / Tadamichi Orie (Macbeth)
- Shirley Verrett / Yasuko Sato (Lady
Macbeth)
- Taro Ichihara / Hiroshi Mochiki
(Macduff)
- Hiroyuki Okayama / Carlo Colombara
(Banco)
- Kazuhiro Tsunoda / Makoto Tashiro
(Malcolm)
- Chieko Tachihara / Naomi Nagata (Dama di
Lady Macbeth)
- Sachio Yamada / Yasuo Yanagisawa
(Medico)
- Naoki Sakurai / Masataka Sugino
(Domestico)
- Teruo Osano / Hidekazu Tsumaya
(Sicario)
- Ikuo Matsuyama Toshiro Ishii
(herald)
- Naoki Sakurai (Apparizione
1)
- Masayo Yamadate (Apparizione
2)
- Saori Adachi (Apparizione 3)
- Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony
Orchestra
- 11, 12, 13, 15 July 1988 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
- 17 July 1988 at Omiya Sonic City
Hall
-
- Ishii, Kan: Kesa to
Morito
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 October 1988 at
Teatreze Wielkim (Grand Theatre), Warsaw, Poland
-
- Bizet:
Carmen
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Sho Fukumori (conductor)
- Yasuhiko Aguni (director)
- Fumiko Mochiki / Kumiko Yoshii
(Carmen)
- Saburo Nagasawa / Bruno Sebastian (Don
José)
- Koichi Tajima / Yoshinobu Kuribayashi
(Escamillo)
- Kyoko Tsukada / Masako Saida
(Micaela)
- Masayo Yamadate / Hisara Sato
(Frasquita)
- Naomi Nagata / Kyoko Moriyama
(Mercedes)
- Katsuji Miura / Yasuo Yanagisawa
(Zuniga)
- Kan Hasegawa / Akihito Shikano
(Morales)
- Kazuhiko Ichikawa / Soji Fujii
(Remendado)
- Ken Yamada / Naoki Sakurai
(Dancairo)
- Japan Philharmonic Orchestra
- 8, 9 November 1988 at Shinjuku Bunka
Center
-
- Puccini: Madama
Butterfly
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Yoshinori Kikuchi
(conductor)
- Yasuhiko Aguni (director)
- Yasuko Sato / Yasuko Hayashi
(Butterfly)
- Bruno Sebastian (Pinkerton)
- Yoshinobu Kuribayashi / Koichi Tajima
(Sharpless)
- Aiko Kori / Kumiko Yashii
(Suzuki)
- Mitsugi Oikawa / Eiichi Taira
(Goro)
- Masaaki Okazaki / Naoki Sakurai
(Bonze)
- Taichi Uchiyama / Hiroyuki Okayama
(Yamadori)
- Shinsei Nihon Symphony
Orchestra
- 11, 12 November 1988 at Shinjuku Bunka
Center
-
- Ishii, Kan: Kesa to
Morito
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 10 December 1988 at Hamamatsu Shimin
Kaikan, Hamamatsu
-
- 1989
-
- Verdi: La
traviata
- Suntory Hall Opera in
Concert
- With Lucia Alberti, Peter Dvorsky,
Renato Bruson
- Roberto Patanostro (conductor), Tokyo
Philharmonic Orchestra
- 18, 20 January 1989 at Suntory
Hall
-
- Bellini: I
Puritani
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Carlo Franci (conductor)
- Mario Corradi (director)
- Lucia Aliberti / Masako Deguchi / Masako
Saida (Elvira)
- Aldo Bertolo (Arturo)
- Hiroyuki Okayama / Sachio Yamada
(Giorgio)
- Tadamichi Orie / Kenji Kojima
(Riccardo)
- Yasuo Yanagisawa / Katsuji Miura
(Gualtiero Valton)
- Kazuhiro Tsunoda / Makoto Tashiro
(Buruno Roberton)
- Fumiko Mochiki / Naomi Nagata
(Enrichetta)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 1, 3, 5 February 1989 ar Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
- 8 February 1989 at Shinjuku Bunka
Center
-
- Hara, Kazuko: Sute
Hime
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 22, 23 March 1989 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Verdi: Don
Carlo
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Donato Renzetti (conductor)
- Yasuhiko Aguni (director)
- Nicola Ghiuselev / Hiroyuki Okayama
(Filippo II)
- Giorgio Lamberti / Hiroshi Mochiki (Don
Carlo)
- Piero Cappuccilli / Lorenzo Saccomani /
Tadamichi Orie (Rodrigo)
- Yasuko Hayashi / Keiko Kataoka
(Elisabetta)
- Kumiko Yoshii / Fumiko Mochiki
(Eboli)
- Hiroyuki Okayama / Sachio Yamada (Il
Grande Inquisitore)
- Sachio Yamada / Katsuji Miura
(friar)
- Masako Saida / Mika Sato
(Tebaldo)
- Kazuhiro Tsunoda / Makoto Tashiro
(Lerma)
- Saori Adachi / Masako Saida (heavenly
voice)
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 25, 27 May 1989 at Kanagawa Kenmin
Hall
- 30, 31 May, 2 June 1989 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
-
- Shimizu, Osamu: Shuzenji
Monogatari
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 1, 2 July 1989 at Shinjuku Bunka Center,
Tokyo
-
- Mizuno, Shuko: Bijo to
Yaju
- Nihon Opera
Kyokai
- 4, 5 October 1989 at Shinjuku Bunka
Center, Tokyo
-
- Verdi: Aida
- Fujiwara
Opera
- Alberto Ventura (conductor)
- Yasuhiko Aguni (director)
- Yasuko Hayashi (Aida)
- Fiorenza Cossotto (Amneris)
- Giuseppe Giacomini (Radames)
- Kenji Kojima (Amonasro)
- Ivo Vinco (Ramfis)
- Hiroyuki Okayama (Il Re)
- Fumiko Mochiki
(Sacerdotessa)
- Makoto Tashiro (messenger)
- Shinsei Nihon Symphony
Orchestra
- 24, 26 November 1989 at Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan
- 1, 3 December 1989 at Kanagawa Kenmin
Hall
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- NOTE: This list is incomplete and
probably will always be so.
- The cast lists are mainly those that
were published and announced.
- In some cases they may subsequently have
changed..
-
- Acknowledgements: Opera
japonica is most grateful to Hikaru Suzuki <tenpika@rnac.ne.jp>
for contributing to
the data on this page.
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- Opera japonica 23/7/2001
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