January 2019archive

In January I came to Toronto to perform Toshio Hosokawa's "Furari Shizuka - The Maiden from the Sea"!!
IMG_0171.JPG
IMG_0174.JPGIMG_0175.JPG IMG_0189.JPG 
University of Toronto, Faculty of Music

IMG_0214.JPGIMG_0217.JPGIMG_0196.JPG 
Rehearsing everyday!
The trailer is beautiful!

image7.jpg 
I had a photo shooting by Tronto Star!

49899925_10218706522313165_1356329648211886080_o.jpg 50522182_10218706511912905_3621248722970607616_o.jpg 52532895_2324404497796316_6299035139808690176_n-001.jpg 50549133_779422055756770_6937458637967196160_n.jpg 
Thursday, 17 Jan. 7:30 pm 
Walter Hall, University of Toronto Faculty of Music, 80 Queens Park 

The Raven 
Krisztina Szabo, mezzo-soprano 
Gregory Oh, conductor 

The Maiden from the Sea (Futari Shizuka) 
Ryoko Aoki, Noh singer and performer 
Xin Wang, soprano 
Lorenzo Guggenheim, conductor 

Paramita Nath, stage director & video projection 
Anna Kajtar, associate producer


Reviews of the opera
Nikkei Newspaper 2019/1/22

IMG_0295.JPG
IMG_0297.JPG IMG_0296.JPG

We are done!! With Johannes Debus, the music director of Canadian Opera Company!!


After the performance, I have to fly to Europe for the next concert! But I had one free day, so I went to see Toronto city with Toshio Hosokawa.

IMG_0363.JPG IMG_0366.JPG50539496_10157127735843447_5567875614033051648_n.jpg 
Art Gallery of Ontario designed by Frank Gehry.

IMG_0456.JPGIMG_0506.JPG
Royal Ontario Museum designed by Daniel Libeskind. Snow in Toronto with Toshio Hosokawa!!

I took part in talk with Toshio Hosokawa and Yuji Nawata for web magazine! Toshio Hosokawa will be featured as he got the Japan Foundation Award! Whan002.jpg Whan028.jpg