FULL CHANCHIKI (Ikuma Dan) Tokyo 1978 Katsube Futoshi, Saito Masako, Emiko Akiyama
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Chanchiki
- Composer: Dan Ikuna
- Libretto: Mizuki Yoko Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Bunka Kaikan Large Hall, Tokyo, Japan
- Recorded: May 17, 1978
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Katsube Futoshi, Saito Masako, Emiko Akiyama, Toshihiko Yamaguchi, Toshiko Shimura
- Conductor: unknown
- Orchestra:
- Chorus: Nikikai Choir
- Ballet: Takashi Nishida Dance Company
- Choreographer: Nishida Takashi
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer: Ogata Kikuko
- Lighting Designer: Yoshii Sumio
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Yamaguchi Toshihiko
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Unknown
- Quality Video: 2 Audio:2
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Ikuma Dan (團 伊玖磨, Dan Ikuma, 7 April 1924 – 17 May 2001) was a Japanese composer. Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin and Tokyo Music School in 1946. He studied with teachers including Kosaku Yamada, Kunihiko Hashimoto, Kan’ichi Shimofusa, Saburō Moroi, and Midori Hosokawa.
During his career he completed six symphonies, all recorded and released on the Decca label in Japan, and wrote seven operas as well as a number of filmscores, and many songs. He wrote celebratory music for the Japanese imperial family, actively promoted cultural exchange with China (from 1979 until his death in Suzhou, China, in 2001), and received the commission to write an opera (Takeru) for the 1997 opening of the New National Theatre, Tokyo, Japan’s main opera house.
Dan is known in Japan for his 1951 opera Yūzuru (Twilight Crane), which is regularly revived there.
Quoted from Wikipedia