commissioned concert

OPERA Takano Saint

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"

Subscription Concert

For supporting groups

613th Subscription Concert

Saturday, November 29, 2025

Doors open 15:00 Performance starts 16:00

Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre

Conductor/Norichika Iimori (Permanent Conductor of the Gunkyoku Symphony Orchestra)
Soprano/Sara Kobayashi *
Soprano/Mari Moriya *
Soprano/Misaki Morino *
Mezzo-soprano/Akiko Tomioka *
Mezzo-soprano/Shoko Togo *
Tenor/Naoki Miyazato *
Baritone/Takashi Aoyama*
Bass-baritone/Kubo Kazunori *
Chorus: Gunma Symphony Orchestra Chorus (chorus conductor: Jun Abe) *
Children's Choir/Fujioka City Ono Elementary School Choir Club *
Co-performer: Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa

Yugo Kanno / New Commission (2025)
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major "Symphony of a Thousand" *

Other sponsored performances

For supporting groups

[Gunma Symphony Orchestra 80th Anniversary] Special Concert

Sunday, November 30, 2025

Doors open 15:00 Performance starts 16:00

Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre

Conductor/Norichika Iimori (Permanent Conductor of the Gunkyoku Symphony Orchestra)
Soprano/Sara Kobayashi *
Soprano/Mari Moriya *
Soprano/Misaki Morino *
Mezzo-soprano/Akiko Tomioka *
Mezzo-soprano/Shoko Togo *
Tenor/Naoki Miyazato *
Baritone/Takashi Aoyama*
Bass-baritone/Kubo Kazunori *
Chorus: Gunma Symphony Orchestra Chorus (chorus conductor: Jun Abe) *
Children's Choir/Fujioka City Ono Elementary School Choir Club *
Co-performer: Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa

Yugo Kanno / New Commission (2025)
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major "Symphony of a Thousand" *

Other sponsored performances

For supporting groups

GT Symphonic Concert vol.4 Leonard Slatkin All-American Program

Sunday, December 7, 2025

Doors open 13:00 Performance starts 14:00

Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre

Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
Piano: Alexei Volodin

L. Bernstein/Candide Overture
S. Barber / Adagio for Strings *Added
G. Gershwin/Rhapsody in Blue
C. McTee/Circuit
A. Copland / Appalachian Spring (Complete Ballet)

commissioned concert

Takasaki Symphony No. 9 Choir 52nd Concert

Sunday, December 14, 2025

Doors open: 13:00 Start: 14:00

Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre

Conductor: Yazaki Hikotaro
Soprano/Miho Sakoda
Mezzo-soprano/Mika Kaneko
Tenor/Murakami Toshiaki
Baritone/Yuki Kuroda
Orchestra/Gunma Symphony Orchestra
Chorus: Takasaki Symphony No. 9 Chorus

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral"
Johann Strauss II / The Beautiful Blue Danube

commissioned concert

Asami Maki Ballet Company "The Nutcracker" (full length)

Thursday, December 18, 2025

Doors open: 17:30 Start: 18:30

Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre

Sugar Candy Fairy / Yuna Suzuki
Prince/Chiharu Kiyotaki
The Snow Queen / Emiko Shigeta
Conductor: Hiroe Yukawa
Performed by Gunma Symphony Orchestra
Ballet/Maki Asami Ballet Company
Other

Ballet "The Nutcracker" (full act)
Libretto by Marius Petipa
Directed and revised choreography by Kyozo Mitani (based on the Petipa-Ivanov version)
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Art and costume design: David Walker
Lighting design: Paul Pyant
Artistic Director: Kyozo Mitani

commissioned concert

Maebashi 53th Choir XNUMXth Concert

Sunday, December 21, 2025

Doors open: 13:30 Start: 14:00

Shoken Gakuen Maebashi Hall Large Hall

Conductor: Shigeo Genda
Soprano/Haru Ito
Alto/Akiko Tomioka
Tenor/Jun Suzuki
Baritone/Jun Hagiwara
Orchestra/Gunma Symphony Orchestra
Chorus: Maebashi Symphony No. 9 Choir

Mascagni / "Orange Blossoms Are Fragrant" from the opera "Cavalleria Rusticana"
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral"

commissioned concert

36th Takasaki New Year's Day Concert

Thursday, January 1, 2026

Doors open: 12:30 Start: 13:30

Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre

Conductor: Naoto Otomo
Soprano/Misaki Morino *
Violin/Rina Nakano **
Piano/Kotaro Fukuma ***

J. Strauss II / Overture to the Opera "Die Fledermaus"
Johann Strauss II / Waltz "Voices of Spring" Op. 410 *
Grieg: Prelude from Suite "From Holberg's Time", Op. 40
Handel / "Make me weep" from the opera "Rinaldo"*
Bruch / Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26, 3rd movement **
Rachmaninoff / Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, 1st movement ***
Anderson/Sledding
Anderson/Prink-Plank-Plunk
Britten: Fugue from "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra", Op. 34
Wagner / Overture to the opera "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"

Subscription Concert

For supporting groups

614th Subscription Concert

Sunday, January 25, 2026

Doors open 15:00 Performance starts 16:00

Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre

Conductor: Jan Willem de Vrynt
Viola/Miyoko Ikeda (Principal Viola, Gunma Symphony Orchestra)*
Clarinet/Tomoko Tamura (Principal Clarinet, Gunma Symphony Orchestra)*

Kosaku Yamada / Overture in D major (1912)
Bruch: Concerto for Clarinet and Viola in E minor, Op. 88*
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in C major "The Great" D944

Other sponsored performances

For supporting groups

GT Symphonic Concert vol.5 Opera "Carmen" Concert Style

Sunday, February 1, 2026

Doors open 13:00 Performance starts 14:00

Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre

Conductor: Ryusuke Numajiri
Carmen/Hiroka Yamashita
Don Jose / Christopher Sokolowski
Escamillo/Takaoki Onishi
Michaela/Eri Nakamura
Zuniga/Hidekazu Tsumaya
Morales/Kari Toru
Dancairo/Takashi Tomokiyo
Remendado/Tokiyuki Sawatake
Frasquita / Airi Sunada
Mercedes/Asami Fujii
Chorus: GT Symphonic Concert Professional Singers (chorus director: Dai Kishimoto)
Children's Choir/GT Symphonic Concert "Carmen" Children's Choir
Stage composition/Aguni Jun

Bizet / Opera "Carmen" (Concert format, 3 acts, performed in the original language, with Japanese subtitles)