Please follow the below measures to help prevent the COVID-19 spread. Your understanding and cooperation are much appreciated.

⁃ We ask you not to come to the venue if you seem to have symptoms such as a fever, cough, sneezing, sore throat, or simply not feeling well.

⁃ Wear a face mask to cover your nose and mouth. Please show consideration for fellow audience members.

⁃ Strictly follow the precautions against infectious diseases such as the cough etiquette and washing and disinfecting your hands frequently.

⁃ Our staff members conduct temperature screening with thermal imaging cameras for all those who are entering the venue. If you have a fever of 37.5°C/99.5°F or higher, you are not allowed to enter the venue.

⁃ No beverage is sold in the Recital Hall area.

⁃ Show your ticket to the usher. Then tear off the stub by yourself and put it in the box.

⁃ We do not hand out program leaflets and such printed materials. Please pick them up by yourself from specific areas.

⁃ The cloakroom is not available.

⁃ We do not accept flowers and gifts for the artists. Nor can you give them directly to the artists.

⁃ Allow enough time to get into the venue.

* There will be a performance in the auditorium area set by the stage direction. Performers will wear mouth shields when they sing and keep a distance between performers and audience members.

It has been decided that we will not conduct the bag check initially planned.

Amahl and the Night Visitors (Opera in 1 Act/Sung in English with Japanese surtitles)

Gian Carlo MENOTTI

SONODA Ryuichiro

IWATA Tatsuji

Opening Panel

Panelists & Artists

Panelists: SONODA Ryuichiro, IWATA Tatsuji

MC: ASAOKA Satoshi

Mezzo-soprano: TOMIOKA Akiko *3rd Prize of Voice section at the 1st Tokyo Music Competition

Baritone: TERADA Koji *2nd Prize of Voice section at the 6th Tokyo Music Competition

Piano: TAKAHASHI Yuko

Music to be performed

Barber: “Must the winter come so soon” from the opera “Vanessa”

Menotti: Bob’s bedroom aria from the opera “The Old Maid and the Thief”

and more

Opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors”

Amahl: MORITA Mao *2nd Prize of Voice section at the 12th Tokyo Music Competition

Mother: YAMASHITA Makiko *1st Prize of Voice section at the 1st Tokyo Music Competition

Kaspar: KOBORI Yusuke *2nd Prize of Voice section at the 16th Tokyo Music Competition

Melchior: TAKAHASHI Yosuke *2nd Prize and Audience Award of Voice section at the 9th Tokyo Music Competition

Balthazar: KUBOTA Masumi

The Page: RYU Shinichiro *Finalist of Voice section at the 5th Tokyo Music Competition

Shepherds and villagers (Chorus):

Coro Pastore

Little Shepherds (Participants of the workshop “Let’s Create Opera!”)

Piano: TAKAHASHI Yuko

Cello: MIZUNO Yuya *1st place and Audience Award of String section at the 13th Tokyo Music Competition

*The artist has been changed from the initial announcement.

Clarinet: SUDO Yuki

Stage design: MATSUO Hiroko

Lighting design: OSHIMA Masao [Art Stage Lighting Group Inc.]

Costume design: MASUDA Emi [Moma Workshop]

Choreography: WASHIDA Midori

Stage director: ITO Jun [The Stuff]

Korrepetitor: TAKAHASHI Yuko

Children’s chorus instructor: TANAKA Mika

Assistant director: HASHIZUME Yoko

Hair & Makeup: Maruzen Inc.

Reserved Seats 3,300yen Pre-sale sold out

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Membership Subscribers, Senior (age 65 and above), Under-26s, Persons with disabilities 2,750yen

*The discount tickets are only available at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Box Office. Valid ID required.

[Door tickets]

Tickets not available.

Sat, Apr 25, 2020

Advanced sale for Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Membership Subscribers: Sat, Apr 18, 2020 (Only available by telephone and online, not available in person. There is a limit to the number of tickets on purchase.)

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Box Office

[If you are not able to come to the venue, a refund is available]

If you wish to get a refund for your tickets, please follow the below steps during the designated period.

Those who purchased tickets at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Box Office (by telephone, in person, online)

Period for accepting refund requests:

Until Wednesday, September 30, 2020

(The request submission must be postmarked by the deadline.)

How to request a refund (By post only)

Please send your tickets and a sheet of paper filled out with the following information to the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Box Office.

* Used tickets are not refundable. Refunds will only be provided for tickets with a stub attached.

* If you have not collected the tickets at a 7-Eleven shop yet, please make sure to collect them by the ticket-issuing due date. The tickets are also required for those who request a refund. You cannot get the ticket issued after the due date.

Required information:

Your name (Japanese phonetics included)

Your telephone number

The total number of your purchased tickets

Your bank account information (Please leave a note if you do not have your bank account in Japan.):

bank name, branch name, account holder (Japanese phonetics included), account type (checking or savings), account number

Postal Address:

Attn: Ticket Refund Team

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Box Office

5-45, Ueno Koen, Taito-ku, Tokyo, 110-8716

* Please note that your tickets will not be reimbursed in case the mail is not delivered to the Box Office by misdelivery and so on.

Costs you get refunded

1. Ticket Cost

2. Service fees

* All expenses presented by the box office on purchasing tickets.

* If you have purchased with tickets for other events, only the system charge and the ticket issuing fee will be refunded.

3. Postage fee for sending back tickets (Up to 244yen)

* Please note that your tickets will not be reimbursed in case the mail is not delivered to the Box Office by misdelivery and so on.

Refund Period

You will receive a refund in your designated bank account in about two months after the box office receives your tickets.

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