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FULL REQUIEM (Shigeaki Saegusa) Tokyo 2015 Maki Mori, John Ken Nuzzo
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Requiem
- Composer: Shigeaki Saegusa
- Libretto: Ayako Sono
- Venue & Opera Company: St. Mary's Cathedral, Tokyo, Japan
- Recorded: 2015
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Maki Mori, John Ken Nuzzo
- Conductor: Naoto Otomo
- Orchestra: Theater Orchestra Tokyo
- Chorus: Roppongi Male Choir Club
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Shigeaki Saegusa
- Date Published: 2016
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Saegusa is best known for his opera version Chushingura of the well-known kabuki epic of the Forty-seven Ronin/Chūshingura with a libretto by the novelist Shimada Masahiko. Written over a period of 10 years, the opera was most recently performed at the New National Theatre, Tokyo in 2002. His newest opera, Jr. Butterfly is a sequel to Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.
He has also written the background music for anime, the foremost of which being Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. Other anime he has written for are Astro Boy (1980), Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack, Catnapped! The Movie, and Mother: Saigo no Shoujo Eve.