La Finta Giardiniera

Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
-Operakugo style-

This  production was supported by the Austrian Culture Center and Japanese  Culture Center to celebrate the one hundred forty years of friendship  between two nations.

The new  style of opera “Operakugo” was created using a combination of Mozart's  opera, which is one of the most famous Austrian composer’s music and  Rakugo, the Japanese traditional theatre. 
It was like a marriage of Austrian and Japanese Cultures.

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Music Director : Joji Hattori
Directing and Set Design : Anna Etsuko Tsuri

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*Cast*

Il  Podestà : Seiji Ishikawa / Sandrina : Mara Mastalir / Il Conte Belfiore :  Masatoshi Uehara / Arminda : Tomoko Takahashi / Ramiro : Hermine  Haselboeck / Serpetta : Kayoko Matsuo / Nardo : Kazuhisa Tashiro  / Monologue : Shinsuke Kokontei

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Stage  Manager : Seiichi Yagi / Lighting design : Kazuhiro Naruse / Costume :  Kozue Hibino (Cooperation with  Saitokinen Festival Matsumoto) / Makeup :  Yasuko Hoshino / Assistant Conductor : Jun Iisaka, Takuya Nemoto  / Language Coach : Anouschka Lara / Assistant Stage Director : Sachi  Nemoto / Management : Shukuminetto Ltd. / Cooperation : Tokyo Opera  Production / Supervisor : Fumiko Takenaka / Chamber Orchester : Tokyo  Ensemble (General Direktor: Joji Hattori)

*​Performances*

January 5 and 6 2009 at 18:30 at New National Theatre Tokyo, The Pit   in Japan