Fujiwara Opera

 

The Fujiwara Opera is managed by the Japan Opera Foundation:

 

Nishiazabu 28 Mori Bldg. 8th floor., 4-16-13 Nishiazabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106

Admin. phone 5466-3185

Tickets: (+81 3) 5466-3181

Fax (+81 3) 5466-3186

Website (Japanese only): www.jof.or.jp

Public Relations: Ms Yuko Egami

 

also at Showa Music Academy: 1-16-6 Mampukuji, Aso-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken 215

Admin. phone: 044-953-6411

Admin. fax 044-953-8693

 

The Fujiwara Opera is Japan's leading company performing Italian and French Opera. The company was founded in 1934 by the tenor FUJIWARA Yoshie. He died in 1977 and it was taken over by the Japan Opera Foundation in 1980. The company does not have a permanent venue.

 

The archives hold a complete set of cast lists for Past Productions of the Fujiwara Opera 1985-99. Many well-known international singers have appeared with the Fujiwara Opera, also conductors, directors and designers.

 

Below is a list of all operas performed since 1934. Note the abiding and unrivalled popularity of three operas: Carmen (23 productions), Madama Butterfly (22) and La Traviata (23). After them the most frequently performed are Tosca (16), and La Boheme and Barbiere di Siviglia (both 11).

 

Fujiwara Opera Productions 1934-99

 

Aida (Verdi) 1941, 1951, 1969, 1989, 1993

Amelia al Ballo (Menotti) Fujiwara Seinen Group, Japanese premiere 1957

Amore dei tre re, L' (Montemezzi) Fujiwara Seinen Group 1954

Amico Fritz, L' (Mascagni)1979

Andrea Chénier (Giordano) 1994

Anna Bolena (Donizetti) Japanese premiere 1982

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Weill) Japanese premiere 1983

Ballo in maschera, Un (Verdi)1972, 1986

Barbiere di Siviglia, II (Rossini) 1943, 1948, 1953 twice, 1957, 1961, 1965, 1971, 1976, 1993, co-production with New National Theatre 1998

Bianca (Hadley) Japanese premiere 1950

Bluebeard's Castle (Bartok) Fujiwara Seinen Group, Japanese premiere 1954

Bohème, La (Puccini)1934, 1940, 1943, 1947, 1953, 1957, 1962, 1969, 1980, 1986, 1993

Campiello, Il (Wolf-Ferrari) Japanese premiere 1978

Capuleti e i Montecchi, I (Bellini) Japanese premiere 1981

Carmen (Bizet) 1935, 1935, 1941, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951 twice, 1953 twice, 1955, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1985, 1988, 1992, 1997

Cavalleria rusticana (Mascagni)1946, 1950, 1957, 1969, 1986, 1990

Cenerentola, La (Rossini) 1991

Consul, The (Menotti) Japanese premiere 1955, 1962, 1974

Cosi fan tutte (Mozart) 1980

Don Carlo (Verdi)1989

Don Giovanni (Mozart) Japanese premiere 1948, 1952, 1956, 1965, 1973, 1990

Don Pasquale (Donizetti) 1975

Dreimädelhaus, Das (Berte/Schubert) 1935

Elisir d'amore, L' (Donizetti) 1969, 1978, 1980, 1995

Entführung aus dem Serail, Die (Mozart) 1976

Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky) 1949, 1955

Faust (Gounod) 1942, 1950, 1970, 1995

Favorita, La (Donizetti) 1997

Fidelio (Beethoven) Japanese premiere 1943

Fledermaus, Die (J.Strauss)1963

Forza del destino, La (Verdi)1992

Gianni Schicchi (Puccini) Fujiwara Seinen Group, Japanese premiere 1954 (see also Trittico, Il)

Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdink) 1952 twice

Heure espagnole, L' (Ravel) Japanese premiere 1961

Hiren Karafune (Kannai, Kikuko) Premiere 1960

Idomeneo (Mozart) Japanese premiere 1978

Italiana in Oriente, L'/Inimico delle Donne, L' (Galuppi) Japanese premiere 1996

Land des Lächelns, Das (Lehár) Japanese premiere 1938

Let's Make an Opera (Britten) Japanese premiere 1961

Lilac Time (Clutsam/Berte/Schubert) 1961

Lohengrin (Wagner) Japanese premiere 1942, 1949

Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) 1972, 1983, 1987, 1993

Macbeth (Verdi)1988, 1997

Madama Butterfly (Puccini)1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956 twice, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1994

Manon (Massenet) Japanese premiere 1954, 1967

Manon Lescaut (Puccini) Japanese premiere 1964, 1985

Maria Stuarda (Donizetti) Japanese premiere 1984

Matrimonio segreto, II (Cimarosa)1977

Medium, The (Menotti) Fujiwara Seinen Group, Japanese premiere 1955, 1974

Mignon (Thomas) Japanese premiere 1951

Nabucco (Verdi) co-production with New National Theatre 1998

Nishiura no Kami/The God of Nishiura (Hirota, Ryotaro) 1943

Norma (Bellini) 1992

Nozze di Figaro, Le (Mozart)1971

Oedipus Rex (Stravinsky) 1966

Otello (Verdi)1991

Pagliacci, I (Leoncavallo) 1946, 1957, 1969, 1990

Pêcheurs de Perles, Les (Bizet) Japanese premiere 1980

Puritani, I (Bellini) Japanese premiere 1989

Quattro Rusteghi, I (Wolf-Ferrari) Japanese premiere 1979

Rigoletto (Verdi)1935, 1939, Special joint production with Nikikai Opera 1953, 1954, 1968, 1981, 1987

Simon Boccanegra (Verdi)1994

Sonnambula, La (Bellini) 1979, 1991

Suor Angelica (Puccini) Fujiwara Seinen Group Japanese premiere 1957, 1961 (see also Trittico, Il)

Tabarro, II (Puccini) Fujiwara Seinen Group, Japanese premiere with piano 1953 (see also Trittico, Il)

Tannhäuser (Wagner) Japanese premiere 1947, 1952

Telephone, The (Menotti) 1974

Thaïs (Massenet) Japanese premiere 1956

Tosca (Puccini)1935, 1942, 1950 twice, 1954, 1958 twice, 1966, 1970 twice, 1976, 1983, 1984, 1990, 1996 twice

Traviata, La (Verdi)1939, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1953 twice, 1955, 1968, 1971. 1977, 1982, 1988, 1990, 1991,1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999

Trittico, Il (Puccini) Fujiwara Seinen Group 1957, 1963, 1974, 1982 (see also Tabarro, II, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi)

Trovatore, II (Verdi)1987, 1996

Unfinished Symphony (after Schubert) 1955

Vida Breve, La (Falla) Fujiwara Seinen Group, Japanese premiere 1958

Villi, Le (Puccini) Japanese premiere 1986

Volo di notte (Dallapiccola) Japanese premiere 1966

Yokihi/Yang Kwei-fei (Dan, Ikuma)1958

Yuzuru/Twilight Heron (Dan, Ikuma) Premiere and revival 1952

Zauberflöte, Die 1976

 

Note: The Fujiwara Seinen Group was an organization of young singers associated with the Fujiwara Opera.

 

Oj 9/6/2000