Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

 

Tokyo Opera City Tower 11th floor, 3-20-2 Nishi Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-1411

Admin. phone: (+81 3) 5353 9521

Ticket office: (+81 3) 5353 9522

Fax: (+81 3) 5353 9523

Email: tophil@tpo.or.jp

Website (in Japanese and English): www.tpo.or.jp

 

Principal Conductor: Ryusuke Numajiri

Artistic adviser: Kazushi Ono (Principal Conductor 1992-99) 

Public Relations: Hitoshi Isaka

 

The main orchestra at the New National Theatre.

 

Kazushi Ono's Opera Concertante Series of semi-staged performances has been one of the Tokyo's best opera events. Since 1992, he has produced and conducted 15 (in a total series of 18) semi-staged concert operas with the orchestra, namely West Side Story, Salieri's Prima la musica, poi le parole/ Zemlinsky's Eine florentinische Tragodie, Norma, The Fiery Angel, Adriana Lecouvreur, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Turandot, Paul Hindemith's Morder, Hoffnung der Frauen/Sancta Susanna/Das Nusch-Nuschi, Nabucco, Peter Grimes, Don Carlo, Un ballo in maschera, Janacek's Jenufa, Schreker's Der ferne Klang and Richard Strauss's Die schweigsame Frau and Salome.

 

Kazushi Ono has been Music Director of the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe since 1997, but from August 2002 he will be Music Director of La Monnaie in Brussels, succeeding Antonio Pappano.

 

Oj 12/7/2000