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Suor Angelica / L'Enfant et les sortilègesNew production

New National Theatre, Tokyo: Opera House1-1-1 Honmachi Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 151-0071, Japan
Dates/times in Tokyo time zone
Sunday 01 October 202314:00
Wednesday 04 October 202319:00
Saturday 07 October 202314:00
Monday 09 October 202314:00
Performers
New National Theatre
Ryusuke NumajiriConductor
Jun AguniDirector
Atsumi YokotaSet Designer
Emi MasudaCostume Designer
Masao OshimaLighting Designer
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
New National Theatre Chorus
Chiara IsottonSopranoSuor Angelica
Marianna PizzolatoContraltoLa zia principessa (Aunt Princess)
Megumi ShiozakiMezzo-sopranoLa badessa (The Abbess)
Akiko GokeMezzo-sopranoLa suora zelatrice (The Monitress)
Yuka KobayashiMezzo-sopranoLa maestra delle novizie (Mistress of the novices)
Maki NakamuraSopranoSuor Genovieffa
Hare ItoSopranoSuor Osmina
Sachie KonnoSopranoSuor Dolcina
Chloé BriotSopranoThe Child
Junko SaitoSopranoMother
Rie MiyakeSopranoPrincess, Fire, Nightingale
Shoko SogoSopranoChina Cup, Dragonfly
Mao MoritaSopranoShepherdess, Owl, Bat
Yuki SugiyamaMezzo-sopranoCat (female), Squirrel, Shepherd
Takayuki HamamatsuTenorWedgwood teapot
Hideyuki AochiTenorLittle old man, Tree frog
Teppei KonoBass-baritoneClock, Cat (male)
Noriko ItoChoreography

As the third pairing in our double bill series, our 2023/2024 season will open with Puccini's Suor Angelica and Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges. Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) is the second work in Il trittico, a collection of three one-act operas from Puccini's later years. Performed with only female singers except for the mixed chorus in the final scene, this work captures a remarkably religious and lyrical atmosphere. For approximately 50 minutes, peaceful scenes of the convent nuns, the tense interaction between Angelica and her aunt, the Princess, that dramatically turns into tragedy, and scenes of mysterious miracles, all develop through Puccini's distinctively eloquent orchestration.

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