Yuraku-za, Tokyo, 1935
Excerpted version (80 minutes).
Excerpted version (80 minutes).
Excerpted version (2 acts), performed with I Pagliacci and Les contes d’Hoffmann
Concert Performance
This theatre no longer exists.
25/11/1941 & 27/11/1941 soirée: Aiko Saita (C), Takako Mikami (M), Eiichi Uchida (E). 26/11/1941: Yoshiko Sato (C), Yoshiko Nakamura (M), Takeshi Tomeda (E). 27/11/1941 matinée: Aiko Saita (C), Sumiko Isomua (M), Tetsu Nakamura (E).
Radio Broadcast.
Newly devised spoken dialogue. This Hall (then known as Gunjin Kaikan) is now Kudan Kaikan. It will reopen in 2022.
Spoken dialogue by Takashi Iba.
On tour from Tokyo. Spoken dialogue by Takashi Iba.
The cover illustration by Japanese painter Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) for ‘The Gypsy song’ from Carmen, Senow Sheet Music Series no. 153 (Tokyo: Senow, 1922). Courtesy of Toyama Kazuyuki Memorial Archive of Modern Japanese Music.
The cover illustration by the famous Japanese painter, Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) for ‘Habanera’ from Carmen, Senow Sheet Music Series no. 28 (Tokyo: Senow, 1917). Courtesy of Toyama Kazuyuki Memorial Archive of Modern Japanese Music.