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"

Other sponsored performances

For supporting groups

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

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*
Bus/Kazunori Kubo*
Chorus: Gunma Symphony Orchestra Chorus (chorus conductor: Jun Abe) *
Children's Choir/In preparation*
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*
Bus/Kazunori Kubo*
Chorus: Gunma Symphony Orchestra Chorus (chorus conductor: Jun Abe) *
Children's Choir/In preparation*
Co-performer: Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa

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