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La bohème

2022

［Music］ Giacomo Puccini
［Libretto］ Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
Opera in four acts/ Sung in Italian with Japanese subtitles, New production
［Conductor］ Yutaka Sado　［Stage director］Dante Ferretti
［associate stage director］Marina Bianchi
［chorusmaster］Silvia Rossi
［set decorator］Francesca Lo Schiavo
［lighting designer］Marco Filibeck
［associate costume designer］Nayoko Oguri
［associate set designer］Massimo Razzi
［associate set designer］Federico Costantini
［stage manager］Hiroshi Koizumi
［producer］Tetsuya Oguri
［Casts include］ Francesca Manzo, Ryoko Sunakawa, Riccardo Della Sciucca, Hiroaki Fueda, Ewa Tracz, Sofia Mchedlishvili, Gustavo Castillo, Tomohiro Takada, Paolo Ingrasciotta, Hidekazu Machi, Eugenio Di Lieto, Yasushi Hirano, Rocco Cavalluzzi, Naoki Katagiri, Kunihito Kiyohara, Kenji Mizuguchi
Produce Opera Chorus, Hyogo, La bohème Chorus,Hyogo and The Produce Opera Children's Chorus, Hyogo
Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra

Official Website
Flyer
（PDF/3.2MB）

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The Merry Widow

2021

［Music］: Franz Lehar

［Libretto］: Viktor Léon, Leo Stein

Original production: July 2021

［Conductor］: Yutaka Sado　［Stage director］Isao Hirowatari

［Set designer］: Simon Holdsworth

［Costume designer］: Steve Almerighi

［Lighting designer］: Yuji Sawada

［Choreographer］: Kiyohiko Kawanishi

［Chorusmaster］: Sadaaki Yazawa

［Japanese Lyrics］: Eiko Morishima

［Associate costume designer］: Nayoko Oguri

［Assistant stage director］: Leo Iizuka

［Assistant choreographer］: Hiroe Ohata

［Video designer］: Keishi Keishi Miura

［Stage managers］: Hiroshi Koizumi, Moto Kondo

［Producer］: Tetsuya Oguri

［Casts include］: Yurie takano, Hisami namikawa, Tadamichi Orie,
Naoki Katagiri, Yui Takahashi, Ai Ichihara, Yuki Kuroda, Daisuke Oyama, Yusuke Kobori, Tatsuya Higuchi, Iwao Onuki,
Kenji Mizuguchi, Toru Onuma, Masahiko Hare, Ryohei Izumi,
Hao Zhong, Fumihiko Shimura, Hirohisa Sannohe, Tomoko Oshimi, Kasumi Shimizu, Masashi Mori, Teppei Kono, Junko Suzuki,
Rika Itanami,Tatsuki Koju, Bunshi Katsura, Kaori Torii、
Produce Opera Chorus, Hyogo
Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra

Official Website
Flyer
（PDF/4.6MB）

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On the Town

2019

Musical in 2 acts / sung in English with Japanese subtitles, New production

［Music］: Leonard Bernstein

［Book and Lyrics］: Betty Comden and Adolph Green

［Based on a Concept］: Jerome Robbins

Original production: July 2019

［Conductor］: Yutaka Sado

［Stage director/ Set & Costume designer］: Antony McDonald

［Lighting designer］: Lucy Carter　［Movement director］Lucy Burge

［Choreographer］: Ashley Page

［Casts include］: Charles Rice, Alex Otterburn, Dan Shelvey, Katie Deacon, Jessica Walker, Aoife Miskelly, Stephen Richardson, Hilary Summers, Anna Dennis, François Testory
Produce Opera Chorus, Hyogo
Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra

Official Website
Flyer
（PDF/3.2MB）

Der Freischütz

2018

Romantic Opera in three acts/ Sung in Germany with Japanese subtitles, New production

Music: Carl Maria von Weber　Libretto Friedrich Kind

Original production:: July 2018

Conductor: Yutaka Sado Stage director Michael Temme

Set & Costume designer: Friedrich Despalmes

Lighting & Video designer: Michael Grundner

Casts include:: Teruhiko Komori, Hidekazu Machi, Bernd Hofmann, Yoshiyuki Shikano, Jessica Muirhead, Katharina Hagopian, Sarah Kobayashi, Maria Rosendorfsky, Tomohiro Takada, Joshua Bloom, Torsten Kerl, Christopher Ventris, Hidekazu Tsumaya, Kenji Saiki, Tetsutaro Shimizu, Peter Goessner
Produce Opera Chorus, Hyogo
Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra

Official Website
Flyer
（PDF/3.2MB）

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Le nozze di Figaro

2017

Opera buffa in four acts/ Sung in Italian with Japanese subtitles, New production

Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte, after Caron de Beaumarchais

Original production:: July 2017

Conductor: Yutaka Sado

Stage director: David Kneuss

Set & Costume designer: Robert Perdziola

Lighting designer: Tatsuo Takasawa

Casts include:: Yunpeng Wang, Tomohiro Takada, Kelebogile Besong, Hisami Namikawa, Lydia Teuscher, Eri Nakamura,
John Moore, Hidekazu Machi
Produce Opera Chorus, Hyogo, Hyogo Performing Arts Centre Orchestra

Official Website
Flyer
（PDF/2.0MB）

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

2016

Opera in three acts/ Sung in English (partly in Japanese) with Japanese subtitles, New production

Music: Benjamin Britten

Libretto: Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears, after William Shakespeare

Translator: Kazuko Matsuoka

Original production:: July 2016

Conductor: Yutaka Sado

Stage director, Set & Costume designer: Antony McDonald

Lighting designer: Wolfgang Göbbel

Choreographer & Movement director: Lucy Burge

Casts include:: Tadashi Miroku, Daichi Fujiki, Mari Moriya, Minami Shioya, Masashi Mori, Kasumi Shimizu, Clare Presland,
Aoife Miskelly, Peter Kirk, Charles Rice, Alan Ewing,
Joshua Bloom, Andrew Dickinson, Matthew Stiff,
Philip Sheffield, Alexander Robin Baker
Produce Opera Children’s Chorus, Hyogo
Hyogo Performing Arts Centre Orchestra

Official Website
Flyer
（PDF/3.2MB）

La traviata

2015

Opera in Three Acts/ Sung in Italian with Japanese subtitles,
New production

Music: Giuseppe Verdi

Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave, after Alexandre Dumas fils

Original production:: July 2015

Conductor: Yutaka Sado

Stage director: Rocco Mortelliti

Set designer: Italo Grassi

Costume designer: Carmela Lacerenza

Lighting designer: Luciano Novelli

Video designer: Mauro Matteucci

Casts include:: Maki Mori, Teona Dvali, Luciano Ganci, Chad Shelton,
Mark S. Doss, Tomohiro Takada, Mutsumi Taniguchi,
Renée Tatum, Atsuko Watanabe, Misato Iwamori
Produce Opera Chorus, Hyogo
Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra

Official Website
Flyer
（PDF/2.2MB）

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Cosi fan tutte

2014

Opera buffa in two acts/ Sung in Italian with Japanese subtitles, New production

Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Original production:: July 2014

Conductor: Yutaka Sado

Stage director: David Kneuss

Set & Costume designer: Robert Perdziola

Lighting designer: Tatsuo Takazawa

Casts include:: Susanna Philips, Satomi Ogawa, Sandra Piques Eddy, Huiling Zhu, John Moore, Kyu Won Han, Chad Shelton,
John Ken Nuzzo, Lyubov Petrova, Asako Tamura,
Rod Gilfry, Hidekazu Machi
Produce Opera Chorus, Hyogo
Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra

Official Website
Flyer
（PDF

Il barbiere di Siviglia

2013

Opera buffa in two acts/ Sung in Japanese with subtitles,
New production

Music

Gioachino Rossini

Libretto

Cesare Sterbini

Original production:

July 2013

Conductor

Yutaka Sado

Stage director

Leo Iizuka

Set designer

Italo Grassi

Costume designer

Steve Almerighi

Lighting designer

Marco Filibeck

Casts include:

Jun Suzuki, Ryoichi Nakai, Michiko Hayashi, Maki Mori
Produce Opera Chorus, Hyogo
Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra

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Il barbiere di Siviglia

2013

Opera buffa in two acts/ Sung in Japanese with subtitles,
New production

Music: Gioachino Rossini

Libretto: Cesare Sterbini

Original production:: July 2013

Conductor: Yutaka Sado

Stage director: Leo Iizuka

Set designer: Italo Grassi

Costume designer: Steve Almerighi

Lighting designer: Marco Filibeck

Casts include:: Jun Suzuki, Ryoichi Nakai, Michiko Hayashi, Maki Mori
Produce Opera Chorus, Hyogo
Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra

Official Website
Flyer
（PDF/3.3MB）

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Tosca

2012

Opera in three acts/ Sung in Italian with Japanese subtitles,
New production

Music: Giacomo Puccini

Libretto: Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica

Original production:: July 2012

Conductor: Yutaka Sado

Stage director: Daniele Abbado

Set & Costume designer: Luigi Perego

Lighting designer: Varelio Alfieri

Video designer: Luca Scarzella

Casts include:: Svetla Vassileva, Hisami Namikawa, Thiago Arancam,
Kei Fukui, Greer Grimsley, Kenji Saiki
Produce Opera Chorus, Produce Opera Children’s Chorus, Hyogo
Opening Beethoven 9th Commemorative Chorus, Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra

Official Website
Flyer
（PDF/2.9MB）

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Die Fledermaus

2011

Operetta in three acts/ Sung in Japanese with subtitles,
New production

Music: Johann Strauss II

Libretto: Karl Haffner, Richard Genée

Original production:: July 2011

Conductor: Yutaka Sado

Stage director: Isao Hirowatari

Set designer: Simon Holdsworth

Costume designer: Steve Almerighi

Lighting designer: Yuji Sawada

Choreographer: Kiyohiko Kawanishi

Casts include:: Minako Shioda, Noriko Sasaki, Hiroshi Kuroda,
Teruhiko Komori, Maki Mori, Sara Kobayashi,
Produce Opera Chorus, Hyogo
Produce Opera Dance Ensemble, Hyogo
Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra

Official Website
Flyer
（PDF/4MB）

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Candide

2010

Comic operetta in two acts/
Sung in English with Japanese subtitles

Music: Leonard Bernstein

Libretto: Hugh Wheeler

: July - August 2010 (Hyogo)　August 2010 Bunkamura (Tokyo)
Original production by Theatre du Chatelet (2006), as a co-production with Teatro alla Scala and English National Opera

Conductor: Yutaka Sado

Stage director: Robert Carsen

Choreographer: Rob Ashford

Set designer: Michael Levine

Costume designer: Buki Shiff

Lighting designer: Peter van Praet, Robert Carsen

Dramaturg: Ian Burton

Casts include:: Alex Jennings, Jeremy Finch, Marnie Breckenridge,
Beverley Klein, Bonaventura Bottone, Jeni Bern,
David Adam Moore
Produce Opera Chorus, Hyogo
Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra

Official Website
Flyer
（PDF/7.8MB）

Carmen

2009

Opera in four acts/ Sung in French with Japanese subtitles,
New production

Music: Georges Bizet

Libretto: Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy

Original production:: June-July 2009

: July 2009 Tokyo Bunka Kaikan (Tokyo)
July 2009 Aichi Arts Center (Aichi)

Conductor: Yutaka Sado

Stage director: Jean-Louis Martinoty

Set designer: Hans Schavernoch

Costume designer: Sylvie de Segonzac

Lighting designer: Fabrice Kebour

Casts include:: Stella Grigorian, Michiko Hayashi, Luca Lombardo,
Shigehiro Sano, Jean-François Lapointe, Hiroyuki Narita,
Mihoko Kinoshita, Fumiko Ando
Nikikai Chorus Group, Produce Opera Chorus, Hyogo
Produce Opera Children’s Chorus, Hyogo (Hyogo)
NHK Tokyo Children Chorus (Tokyo)
Nagoya Children's Choir (Aichi)
Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra (Hyogo, Aichi)
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra (Tokyo)

Official Website
Flyer
（PDF/2.5MB）

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The Merry Widow

2008

Operetta in three acts/ Sung in Japanese with subtitles,
New production

Music: Franz Lehar

Libretto: Viktor Léon, Leo Stein

Original production:: June-July 2008

Conductor: Yutaka Sado

Stage director: Isao Hirowatari

Set designer: Simon Holdsworth

Costume designer: Steve Almerighi

Lighting designer: Yuji Sawada

Choreographer: Kiyohiko Kawanishi

Casts include:: Shinobu Sato, Minako Shioda, Daisuke Oyama,
Hiroshi Kuroda, John Ken Nuzzo, Yasuhiko Idane,
Tadahiko Hirano, Susumu Matsumoto, Hisami Namikawa, Akie Amou
Produce Opera Chorus, Hyogo
Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra

Official Website
Flyer
（PDF/2.1MB）

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Die Zauberflöte

2007

Singspiel in two acts/ Sung in German with Japanese subtitles, New production

Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Libretto: Emanuel Schikaneder

Original production:: July-August 2007

Conductor: Yutaka Sado

Stage director: Emmanuelle Bastet

Set & Costume designer: Antony McDonald

Lighting designer: François Thouret

Casts include:: Eric Halfvarson, Akira Hasegawa, Jane Archibald,
Michiyo Iida, Gordon Gietz, Jun Suzuki, Marie Arnet,
Akie Amou, Josef Wagner, Masahiko Hare
Produce Opera Chorus, Hyogo
The College Opera House Chorus, Osaka
Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra

Flyer
（PDF/2.6MB）

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Madama Butterfly

2006

Opera in three acts/ Sung in Italian with Japanese subtitles,
New production

Music: Giacomo Puccini

Libretto: Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa

Original production:: July 2006

Revival:: March-April 2008

Conductor: Yutaka Sado

Stage director: Masayoshi Kuriyama

Set designer: Norio Ishiguro

Costume designer: Kikuko Ogata

Lighting designer: Yuji Sawada

Casts include:: Rie Hamada, Chiho Oiwa, Hisami Namikawa,
Alessandro Liberatore, John Matz, David Okerlund,
Kyu Won Han
Produce Opera Chorus, Hyogo
Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra

Flyer
（PDF/2.2MB）

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Hänsel und Gretel

2005

Opera in three acts/ Sung in Japanese with subtitles,
New production

Music: Engelbert Humperdinck

Libretto: Adelheid Wette

Original production:: December 2005

Revivals:: December 2007, December 2009

Conductor: Yutaka Sado

Stage director: Keisuke Suzuki

Set designer: Pantelis Dessyllas

Costume designer: Sonoko Watanabe

Choreographer: Etsuko Adachi

Casts include:: Michiko Hayashi, Aiko Toda, Hiroko Kouda, Emi Ishibashi, Akemi Nishi, Miho Asai
Nishinomiya Boys Choir, Yasuda Ballet School
Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra

Official Website
Flyer
（PDF/3.8MB）

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