小澤征爾音楽塾 Seiji Ozawa Music Academy

PROGRAM

Seiji Ozawa Music Academy Opera Project XXI
Verdi: La traviata

Opera in three acts in Italian with Japanese titles

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  • Traviata Leaflet

• Tour Schedule
  Kyoto
  March 14, 2025 (Fri)
  March 16, 2025 (Sun)
  ROHM Theatre Kyoto, Main Hall

  Tokyo
  March 20, 2025 (Thu/Holiday)
  March 22, 2025 (Sat)
  Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Main Hall

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  Artists
  Violetta Valéry: Nina Minasyan
  Alfredo Germont: Kang Wang
  Giorgio Germont: Quinn Kelsey
  Flora Bervoix: Megan Marino
  Annina: Mayumi Makino
  Gastone: Martin Bakari
  Barone Douphol: Soshiro Ide
  Marchese d’Obigny: Hidekazu Machi
  Dottore Gravil: Teppei Kono

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  Seiji Ozawa Music Academy Founder / Permanent Artistic Director: Seiji Ozawa
  Seiji Ozawa Music Academy Associate Director: Sadao Harada
  Assisting Director: Seira Ozawa
  
  Conductor: Diego Matheuz (Seiji Ozawa Music Academy Principal Conductor)
  Stage Director: David Kneuss
  Set & Costume Designer: Robert Perdziola
  Chorus Master: Donald Palumbo
  Lighting Designer: Yi Zhao
  
  Orchestra: Seiji Ozawa Music Academy Orchestra
  Chorus: Seiji Ozawa Music Academy Choir

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  Presented by: Seiji Ozawa Music Academy / VEROZA Japan Company Ltd.
  City of Kyoto, ROHM Theatre Kyoto (Kyoto City music art cultural Promoting Foundation) (Kyoto Performances)
  Co-presented by: Rohm Music Foundation
  Sponsored by: ROHM Co., Ltd.
  Produced by: VEROZA Japan Company Ltd.

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• Conductor, Director

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    Diego Matheuz [Conductor]

    Diego Matheuz belongs to the first generation of outstanding musicians emerging from Venezuela’s El Sistema.
    At the age of 39 he can look back at fruitful periods as principal conductor of La Fenice in Venice, principal guest conductor—upon Claudio Abbado’s invitation—of the Orchestra Mozart Bologna, and as principal guest conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
    A particularly significant moment in his career was the “Special Gala Concert” celebrating the 120th anniversary of Deutsche Grammophon at Suntory Hall in December 2018, where he exchanged the baton with Seiji Ozawa to conduct the Saito Kinen Orchestra with soloist Anne-Sophie Mutter.
    Since then, Mr. Matheuz has worked with the Saito Kinen Orchestra upon Seiji Ozawa’s invitation regularly, and in June 2022, he was appointed the Seiji Ozawa Music Academy’s first-ever principal conductor. In Japan, he also worked at the Argerich Music Festival recently, conducting a series of highly successful concerts with Martha Argerich performing Ravel’s Concerto in G.
    Other orchestras he conducted include Santa Cecilia, Rome, La Scala Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Spanish National Orchestra, the BBC, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestras, National Symphony Orchestra Dublin, Prague Philharmonic, Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic, Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, OSESP São Paulo, and the NHK Symphony Orchestra. Diego Matheuz is a regular guest at the major opera houses in Berlin, Barcelona, Rome, Munich, Paris and New York, and at prestigious festivals including the Rossini Festival Pesaro and the Arena di Verona. In Venezuela, he carries out intense periods of formation and expands the repertoire of the Sistema orchestras. In addition, he works with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, of which he is principal conductor.

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    David Kneuss [Stage Director]

    David Kneuss has recently completed his tenure at the Metropolitan Opera where he served as executive stage director for 25 years and directed nearly 100 productions. In addition to the Met, Mr. Kneuss has also directed productions for the opera companies of: Chicago; San Francisco; Washington, DC; Boston; Portland (Oregon); Bonn (Germany); the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; the English National Opera; and Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Nishinomiya, Japan, where he recently staged Don Giovanni, completing the Mozart/DaPonte trilogy for that company.
    Having a career-long association with Seiji Ozawa, Mr. Kneuss first staged opera for Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, Boston’s Symphony Hall, and Carnegie Hall. In Japan, he has directed more than 30 productions for Ozawa’s music festivals and continues to create productions for the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival and the Seiji Ozawa Music Academy, where Mr. Kneuss also serves as Artistic Director, and where he has most recently created his production of Puccini’s La Bohème.
    Mr. Kneuss created a production of La damnation de Faust at Matsumoto Castle, which was the first outdoor production ever presented by the Saito Kinen Festival and was seen by an audience of 5,000. His Peter Grimes, a joint venture between the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Saito Kinen Festival, began at the Tanglewood Music Center to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opera’s American premiere and was featured in a film entitled A Tale of Tanglewood.

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