VietNamNet Bridge – Doan Lien Huong and her classmates eagerly awaited their upcoming Japanese class, a special lesson that would be learned by watching a classic Japanese opera instead of reading ...
While we don’t usually think about successful opera singers breaking into the rock music industry, there’s one man out there to prove that classically trained performers can, in fact, appreciate ...
VietNamNet Bridge – Yuzuru (Twilight Crane), a famous Japanese opera adapted from its folk story will be staged at Hanoi Opera House on March 29-30, announced Norio Hattori, Japan’s former Ambassador ...
Ah, “Madama Butterfly,” Puccini’s classic operatic tale about a Japanese geisha and an American Navy lieutenant who meet in Nagasaki and fall in love as they sing to each other –– in Italian. It is a ...
Masks whose expressions change with a tilting of the wearer's head, black silk robes, and slow, stylistic movements. Noh, a form of Japanese classical music drama that has existed virtually unchanged ...
Takako Crawford is one of the original Japanese tour guides at the Sydney Opera House and has been performing the role with pride for 17 years now. “Every time I talk about the Sydney Opera House, it ...
Kabuki actor and designated Living National Treasure Sakata Tojuro (b. 1931) stages an opera, for the first time in his career, this month at the New National Theatre. “At first, I politely refused ...
HONG KONG-Hiroyuki Uemura is relishing the chance to pit Bellagio Opera against the mighty Romantic Warrior in the HK$40 million (S$6.67 million) Group 1 Longines Hong Kong Cup (2,000m) at Sha Tin on ...
Conductor Kazushi Ono still remembers the first opera he attended, at the age of 10. “My treasured ticket with its sophisticated designs got ruined,” Ono says, recalling how miserable he felt when the ...
SHANGHAI -- Late last month, I went to a theater here to see a performance of Peking opera, a traditional performing art in China. It was an unusual opportunity because the performance did not feature ...
VIVA! Opera is a music content broadcast on the 4th and 5th Thursday each month. In the 70th episode, the last episode this year, Ms Ohtake picks 'Addio, addio, speranza ed anima' from Rigoletto ...
Yoko Watanabe, the first Japanese opera soprano to have starred at the world's top four opera houses, has died in Italy, a Japan Opera Foundation official said Friday. She was 51. By Billboard Staff ...