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"

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Gunma Symphony Orchestra 80th Anniversary Commemoration "Beethoven: Complete Symphonies Concert" 2st

Monday, November 24, 2025

Doors open 14:00 Starts 15:00

Ota Civic Hall

Conductor: Junichi Hirokami
Violin/Takashi Narita *

Beethoven/Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
Yuzo Toyama / Violin Concerto No. 1 *
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 "Fate"

Subscription Concert

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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" *

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[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" *

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Gunma Symphony Orchestra Music Class for Adults Gunma Symphony High School Music Class ~Open to the Public~ (June 12rd)

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Doors open: 13:30 Start: 14:00

Glasses Itagaki Culture Hall Isesaki

Conductor/Munetoshi Matsumoto
Baritone/Imai Shunsuke *

Tchaikovsky / The Chestnut Cracker Suite No. 1, Op. 71a
Rossini / Opera "The Barber of Seville" "I am the town's jack-of-all-trades"
Bizet / Prelude to the First Act of the Opera "Carmen"
Bizet / Toreador's Song from the opera "Carmen"
Verdi / Prelude to the First Act of the Opera "La Traviata"
Verdi / Opera "La Traviata" "Sea and Land of Provence"
Tchaikovsky/Italian Caprice

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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

The 34rd Isesaki Symphony No. XNUMX Concert

Saturday, December 13, 2025

Doors open: 13:30 Start: 14:00

Megane Itagaki Cultural Hall Isesaki Large Hall

Conductor: Hikotaro Yazaki
Soprano/Miho Sakoda
Mezzo-soprano/Mika Kaneko
Tenor/Ichiro Sawazaki
Baritone/Imai Shunsuke
Orchestra/Gunma Symphony Orchestra
Chorus/Isesaki Symphony No. 9 Singing Group

Handel / "Hallelujah" from the oratorio "Messiah"
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral"

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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

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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"