TomoeArts presents the world premiere of a provocative and heartrending new work, Kayoi Komachi/Komachi Visited, a noh chamber opera, October 26 - 28, 2017 at The Cultch. Master Japanese practitioners ...
TOKYO >> The ghost of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), who led the development of the U.S. atomic bomb, is the main character of a Noh play titled “Oppenheimer,” to be performed on ...
The American premiere of the opera “Matsukaze” is a hybrid of several diverse elements. Based on a Japanese Noh drama of the same name, “Matsukaze” is the brainchild of Japanese composer Toshio ...
Masaaki Yuasa is known for doing the unexpected, and his newest film Inu-Oh certainly proves why this works so well for the director. The anime is an epic rock opera set in 14th century Japan, and it ...
Noh was once the entertainment of medieval warriors. Today, remote Sado Islanders embrace one of the world’s oldest surviving types of drama. Shinobu Kamiyama, center, playing the tormented ghost of a ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. With a formidable cast of three, and a brilliant ensemble of voices and ...
The Fisher Ensemble’s new work, “Kocho,” is billed as an “opera.” But as anyone who’s seen the Seattle ensemble’s work knows, that label doesn’t quite cover it. While composer Garrett Fisher draws on ...
A woman loses her son. Despairing, she seeks him out everywhere. Finally she takes a ferry, crosses a river, and there she finds the truth. Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera “Curlew River” may sound ...
Late in life, Wagner contemplated writing an opera on the life of Buddha. Late in life, John Cage contemplated writing a “Noh opera,” applying Zen Buddhist principles. Now the highly versatile ...
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