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Sahoko will be performing 
Guastavino's La Rosa y el Sauce with Jorge Parodi, piano

Tokyo International Vocal Arts Academy "at Home" Opera Gala Concert

About this Event

Classical music is the art of performing acoustic music to enrich people's lives and minds. Particularly Vocal Music, the art of the human voice, has developed so a single singer can reach thousands of people in a performance venue. However in the current environment musicians are unable to deliver their art to their audience.
But through the power of the Internet we bring you music from three continents -Asia, Europe and America- across borders and time zones directly into your home with a spectacular line-up of performers and live interviews from Japan, China, Italy, Germany, Canada, Argentina and the United States. This is a real online opera recital that you can enjoy in the comfort of your own home while enjoying some snacks and drinks. You can enjoy the concert with headphones or connect your PC screen to your TV with an HDMI.
Please relax at home with a glass of wine and enjoy a new form of concert!
Performance across the continents!
Howard Watkins, one of the world's leading vocal pianists and and assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, will play piano from New York, while Kohei Yamamoto, a leading tenor from Japan, and Takaki Kurihara, a rising star living in Italy, will sing to create a duet across three continents!
You can also enjoy a mini-lecture on how to enjoy opera by Professor Prof. Shoko Tategami from Ferris University, with musical examples performed by William Desbiens from Canada and Airi Sunada from Tokyo, who recently won the Goto Memorial Culture Award.
Rika Iwai, one of Japan’s most acclaimed opera star, will sing Wagner accompanied by the renowned pianist Takeshi Tanaka; and the up-and-coming tenor Kensho Maekawa and Chinese bass Nan Qin will join Airi Sunada, Moeko Idani, Takaki Kurihara and Masachika Watanabe, with internationally acclaimed opera conductor and TIVAA Artistic Director Jorge Parodi will deliver the famous sextet from Lucia di Lammermoor, a rare treat to hear in concerts due to Its large cast.
Yuka Tanimoto, deputy chief editor of Forbes, who has interviewed more than 3,000 world figures, including former Prime Minister Tony Blair, will serve as your host while Shintaro Kobayashi, a Japanese music journalist from New York, will provide an in-depth commentary on the music.
A gorgeous cast!
From Japan, Mari Moriya, Japan's world-renowned diva, who sang at a national festival to celebrate the accession of His Majesty the Emperor; Shigehiro Sano, one of Japan's leading opera singers, who has been performing in Italy for many years; Takaoki Onishi who made an auspicious opera debut last year at Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival; form the USA Sahoko Sato Timpone, who made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; Fumiyasu Kawase, a graduate from Brooklyn College; and from Germany, Katharina Schwesinger, from Theater Freiburg. In addition Yukie Tamura, a regular member of Tokyo New National Opera; Shoko Iwashita, the first prize winner of the Japanese Music Competition; Mizuho Takeshita, who performed the role of Lucia in Washington last year; Kazuma Goto, a former member of the Dutch National Opera; Mika Urano, the youngest star from Kunitachi Music College; Koko Oinuma, a regular of Tokyo stages; Yuri Aoki, the first Japanese member of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program; and Ryoko Takei, whose multi-career has been covered by mass-media, we willgather to bring you a powerful and enriching experience!

Cast
Hosts: Yuka Tanimoto & Shintaro Kobayashi
Sopranos: Rika Iwai, Shoko Iwashita, Airi Sunada, Katharina Schwesinger, Ryoko Takei, Mizuho Takeshita, and Mari Moriya
Mezzo-sopranos: Moeko Idani, Mika Urano, Sahoko Sato Timpone, Yukie Tamura
Tenors: Shigehiro Sano, Kensho Maekawa, Kohei Yamamoto, Masachika Watanabe
Baritones: Takaoki Onishi, Takaki Kurihara, William Debien
Bass-baritons: Kazuma Goto, Nan Qin
Pianists: Yuri Aoki, Koko Oinuma, Fumiyasu Kawase, Shoko Tategami, Takeshi Tanaka, Jorge Parodi and Howard Watkins
*Guest: Yayoi Toriki (mezzo-soprano), Takayuki Ezawa (piano)
Lentgh: 3 hours.
Organized by Tokyo International Vocal Arts Academy (TIVAA)