Organization

Opera Summer Festival Japan Tokyo World

Singer

Bass-baritone

Thomas Johannes Mayer

Hans Sachs

Bass

Bjarni Thor Kristinsson

Veit Pogner

Tenor

Murakami Kota

Kunz Vogelgesang

Kei Yonashiro

Konrad Nachtigall

Baritone

Adrian Eröd

Sixtus Beckmesser

Takashi Aoyama

Fritz Kothner

Atsushi Kanno

Balthasar Zorn

Jun Suzuki

Ulrich Eisslinger

Tatsundo Ito

Augustin Moser

Toru Onuma

Herman Ortel

Akira Hasegawa

Hans Schwarz

Hidekazu Tsumaya

Hans Foltz

Tetsuya Mochizuki

David

Soprano

Masako Hayashi

Mezzo-soprano

Makiko Yamashita

Magdalena

Fumihiko Shimura

Nightwatchman

Stage director

Jens Daniel Herzog

Heiko Hentschel

Conductor

Kazushi Ōno

Lighting designer

Fabio Antoci

Costume designer

Sibylle Gädeke

Set designer

Mathis Neidhart

Choreographer

Ramses Sigl

Stefan Vinke

Walther von Stolzing

New National Theatre Tokyo

Others

New National Theatre Chorus

New National Theatre Chorus, Nikikai Chorus Group

Nikikai Chorus Group

Orchestra

Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

German

Summer Festival Opera 2019-20 Japan↔Tokyo↔World

Tokyo

Japan

New National Theatre

Public

The Master-Singers of Nuremberg

English

Japanese

Approved

This is the second production of the project "Summer Festival Opera 2019-20 Japan↔Tokyo↔World" presented by Tokyo Bunka Kaikan and New National Theatre, Tokyo. The festive masterpiece "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" addresses themes such as the contrast of tradition and innovation in the arts, fatherly tolerance, and the love and gracious understanding by an older man for a younger woman--meticulously played out to the accompaniment of fine music. It is frequently performed at theatres worldwide, despite the number of people and hours needed to bring such performance to life. This is Richard WAGNER's resounding celebration of what it means to be human, and from which emerges art that, both in its respect for the traditional and thirst for the new, has achieved immortality. Directing will be Jens-Daniel HERZOG, the prominent German director. This is a joint international production together with The Salzburg Easter Festival, Semperoper, and Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. It was premiered in Salzburg on 13 April 2019 and then was performed in Dresden in January and February 2020. Performances in Tokyo were schedule in June 2020, but they were suspended due to COVID-19. This acclaimed staging will be shown in Tokyo at last.

ONO Kazushi, Artistic Director of Opera, will wield the conductor's baton. This festive production is performed by a glamourous cast, including Adrian ERÖD in the fitting role of Sixtus Beckmesser, following on from Salzburg and Dresden; Wagner baritone Thomas Johannes MAYER, no stranger to the NNTT; renowned German heldentenor Stefan VINKE; ITO Tatsundo; and HAYASHI Masako. In the orchestra pit will be the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, under its musical director, ONO Kazushi.

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