A Night at the Opera

Saturday 24th May 2025 7.30pm
Christchurch Priory
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​​​​​​​​Conductor: Leo Geyer​
Soloists:
Soprano: Miku Yasukawa
Tenor: Daniel Gray Bell
Baritone: Thomas Humphreys​​​

Sachio Fujioka, Principal Guest Conductor
Tetsuo Tozawa, Violon（TCPO Concertmaster）
Miku Yasukawa, Soprano
Takaoki Onishi, Baritone
TCPO Chor, Chorus
(Takahiro Fujimaru, Chorusmaster)

L.v.Beethoven：Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61
R.V.Williams：Dona Nobis Pacem

Conductor Ryusuke Numajiri
Soprano Miku Yasukawa
Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra
M. Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
M. Ravel; Scheherazade
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 "Scottish"

Beethoven Symphony no.9
Conductor: Jonathan Nott
Soprano: Miku Yasukawa
Mezzo-soprano: Yuki Sugiyama
Tenor: Naoki Miyasato
Baritone: Eijiro Kai
Chorus: Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
Chorus conductor: Hiroyuki Tsuji

Conductor: Norichika Iimori
Soprano: Miku Yasukawa
Mezzo-soprano: Akiko Tomioka
Tenor: Satoshi Nishimura
Baritone: Takaoki Onishi
Chorus: Pacific Philharmonia Tokyo Choir

Haydn: Symphony No. 9 in C major Hob.I:9
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 “With chorus”

This unique concert, curated by Dr Amanda Hsieh, presents a selection of extremely beautiful early twentieth-century Japanese art songs, rarely heard in the UK. Music by composers such as Rentarō Taki, Kōsaku Yamada and Tatsunosuke Kishitani will be interwoven with European songs and operatic excerpts, just as they would have been performed in their original context.

Cond. Sachio Fujioka
Soprano Miku Yasukawa
Choeur Memorial Faure

[Conductor] Norichika Iimori
[Soprano] Miku Yasukawa* [Baritone] Takaoki Onishi* and others
[Chorus] Gunma Symphony Orchestra Chorus (Chorus conductor/Jun Abe)
[Track list] Mozart's four minuet K.601
Beethoven/Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21
Orff/Carmina Burana*

Meet the Classic Vol.48
19:00 start (18:00) Doors open Sumitomo Life Insurance Izumi Hall
Conductor & Story: Yukio Fujioka
Soprano: Miku Yasukawa
Baritone: Takaoki Onishi
Chorus: Kansai Philharmonic Chorus

Opera aria etc.
Fauré: Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 (original version/Rutter version)