| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 29-May-2013 New National Theatre: Opera House | Graham Vick's Nabucco relocates to modern Tokyo |
 Nabucco in a shopping mall – this is Graham Vick’s concept for his new production of Verdi’s early masterpiece created specifically for New National Theatre Tokyo. In the production notes, Vick writes that in this Nabucco, he wanted to find an alternative for Jehovah, God of the Hebrews, because Japanese people don’t believe in the existence of the Divine, and he decided to replace God with “Nature”. Thus the Hebrew people become modern Japanese people who have turned their backs to “Nature” and have become worshipers of materialism.Read full review... | |
| 8-Oct-2012 New National Theatre: Opera House | An outstanding Peter Grimes in Tokyo |
 Willy Decker’s production of Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes, which originated at La Monnaie in Brussels in 1994 and was revived at London’s Royal Opera House in 2004 and 2011, has now reached Tokyo. The work opened the new season of the New National Theatre Tokyo, the capital’s main opera house, currently celebrating its 15th anniversary. It’s the first time the New National Theatre has staged Peter Grimes, and Decker himself directed this revival with great care and attention to detail.
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