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Opera LE CONTES D'HOFFMANN
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Offenbach's @LE CONTES D'HOFFMANN (Five acts s3acts with Prologue and Epiloguet sung in French with Japanese sidetitles) Conductor:Asher FISCH@@Stage Director:Jun AGUNI Opera, a spectacular performing arts with singers actual voices, orchestrafs live performances, and magnificent stage sets and costumes, will color the First Triennnale in Aichi. The stage goes away in a moment but the stirring memory will remains in your heart as a life time treasure. Enjoy the stage which has been loved over the time. Saturday September 18 and Monday(Natioal Holiday) September 20, 2010 at 14:00 The Theater in Aichi Prefectural Arts Theater |
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| Story A drunken guy named Hoffmann. He goes to a theater where his lady Stella is on the stage singing Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni". During the intermission, students at the bar in the theater asked him to tell something new story. Drunken Hoffmann starts to sing Kleinzach's song but digresses into his past memory with his women. Then he started to tell his three love stories. His three love stories are like illusions. A life-size mechanical doll Olympia, Antonia, young soprano, who can not stop singing to die,@and an allure courtesan Giulietta who stripps Hoffmann's shadow.... At last, a Muse is happy that sheis able to get back him into arts world as a poet. Recommendation Opera LE CONTES D'HOFFMANN (Tales of Hoffmann) is a great piece of composer Offennbach who is famous for eminent operetta works. It attracts audience into a fantasy and illusion world. It consists of all 5 acts or 3 acts with prologue and epilogue. Its magnificent scale bring you the opportunity to enjoy three different stories at one time. The role of Hoffmann will be sung by the young talented Mexican tenor Arturo Chacon-Cruz and this is his Japan debut. Great Itarian bariton, Carlo Colombara will perform the four evil roles. And three sopranos! - Olympia will be sung by Hiroko Koda whose coloratura is must to listen, Ryoko Sunakawa will sing a melodic line of Antonia who is suffering from a fatal sickness, and allured courtesan, Giulietta gets a best soprano Akiko Nakajima whose singing and acting are both so much appreciated by theaters in Europe. Conductor Asher Fisch have been getting a great reputation in major world opera theaters, and stage director Jun Aguni is one of the best opera directors in Japan. Listen to his stories, together with us... |
Casts
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| Hoffmann | Arturo CHACON-CRUZ |
| Muse/Nicklausse | Hitomi KAGA |
| Olympia | Hiroko KOUDA |
| Antonia | Ryoko SUNAKAWA |
| Giulietta | Akiko NAKAJIMA |
| Lindorf/Coppelius/Dr.Miracle/Dappertutto | Carlo COLOMBARA |
| Spalanzani | Masahiko HARE |
| Crespel | Masato MATSUSHITA |
| Schelemil/Hermann | Kenji MORIGUCHI |
| Andres/Frantz | Toshiro NISHIGAKI |
| Cochenille/Pitichinaccio | Tomonaga MIYAZAKI |
| Luther | Hirohisa SANNOHE |
| Nathanael/Hoffmann cover | Toshiaki MURAKAMI |
Chorus: AC Chorus
Orchestra: Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra
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sVenuet Aichi Arts Center 1-13-2 Higashisakura, Higashi-ku, Nagoya city, Aichi [Access] 3 minutes by walk from Sakae station by Subway Higashiyama Line or Meijo Line, or Sakaemachi station by Meitetsu Seto Line |
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 Presenters: Aichi Triennale Organizing Committee, Aichi Arts Foundation, Aichi Arts Center Subsidies: Japan Foundation for Regional Art-Activities, The Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Foundation, Society for Administration of Remuneration for Audio Home Recording (sarah) |
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