Performance calendar
GUNMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
GUNMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
concerts
September 27 2025
commissioned concert
Saturday, September 27, 2025
Doors open: 15:00 Start: 16:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor: Naoto Otomo
Cello/Michiaki Ueno *
Hideaki Hagimori / "Kachashi" from "Okinawa Symphony Almanac"
Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104*
Mussorgsky (arranged by Ravel) / Suite "Pictures at an Exhibition"
November 16 2025
commissioned concert
Sunday, November 16, 2025
Doors open 16:30 Performance starts 17:30
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor: Naoto Otomo
Priest (tenor)/Hironori Shiro
Woman (soprano)/Akiko Tomihira
Oyaji, Housekeeper of a Woman's House (Baritone) / Shunsuke Imai
Medicine Seller (Baritone) / Kadota Yu
The Man with the Balance Pole (tenor) / Yohei Kondo
Child-like Man (tenor) / Ryo Tokuyasu
Me/Interviewer (Baritone)/Yosuke Takahashi
Teahouse Woman (soprano) / Kumi Ishikawa
Dancer / Sankai Juku
Narration and voice acting: Tamasaburo Bando
Chorus: Japan Opera Association Takano Sei Chorus
Orchestra: Gunma Symphony Orchestra
Script by Kenya Oda (script supplement by Jun Hara)
Script translation by Jun Ieda
Directed by Jun Hara
Art by Shigeaki Tsuchiya
Video/Mucho Muramatsu
Lighting: Satoru Tsukamoto
Costumes: Jun Hara
Hair and makeup by: Seiko Kitou
Choreography: Semimaru (Sankai Juku)
Guidance on movements/Ranko Fujima
Stage director: Jun Ito
Assistant Director: Naaya Miura
Publicity illustration by Takato Yamamoto
Fuichiro Ikebe / Opera "Kumano Hijiri"