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Catapult Opera

Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano e Trento

Japan Foundation New York

Soprano

Eri Nakamura

Hanako

Mezzo-soprano

Abigail Fischer

Jitsuko Honda

Baritone

Adam Richardson

Yoshio

Saori Tsukada

Silent Figure

Orchestra

Talea Ensemble

Conductor

Neal Goren

Stage director

Luca Veggetti

Choreographer

Lighting designer

Clifton Taylor

Set designer

Costume designer

Peter Speliopoulos

Dramaturge

Lara Mones

Hanjo

New York City

United States

NYU Skirball Center

Hanjo Hosokawa

Public

Private

Keerthi Raj

Approved

One important aspect of Catapult Opera’s mission is to expand the operatic canon by presenting masterpieces from non-Western and under-represented cultures.

Our first live offering will be Hanjo by Toshio Hosokowa. The opera’s libretto was adapted from one of Yukio Mishima’s Five Modern Noh Plays and was translated by Donald Keene. Though “Hanjo” premiered in Aix-en-Provence in 2004, it has never been performed in the United States.  Catapult will be presenting the US premiere of this opera, which is an example of Japanese story-telling brilliantly realized by one of Japan’s most important living composers of classical music.

Hanjo is the story of two women who make a refuge in each other against the world. The stability of their existence is threatened when a man arrives to reclaim the younger of the two. Hanjo expresses the fragility of the lives that we construct for ourselves when challenged by events beyond our control.

Catapult’s production will be directed and choreographed by Luca Veggetti, a frequent collaborator of Hosokowa, who will be reunited with Catapult’s Artistic Director, Neal Goren to conduct this production.  Veggetti and Goren presented the US premiere of Hosokowa’s The Raven for the first New York Philharmonic biennial in 2014 and the US stage premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Tempest Songbook in the following year. The internationally-acclaimed Talea Ensemble will provide the orchestral element and acclaimed theatre artist Saori Tsukada will complete the cast, performing a silent role created specifically for this production.

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Hanjo by Hosokawa, From (2022/2022), Directed by Luca Veggetti,, Conductor Neal Goren, NYU Skirball Center, New York City, United States

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