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Association-sponsored performance

Aprico Christmas Festival 2023 The Nutcracker and Clara's Christmas

A special Christmas concert featuring beautiful ballerinas dancing with live orchestral music in the background.
Our guests will be Haruo Niyama, 1st place winner of the Lausanne International Ballet Competition, and Hitomi Takeda, formerly of the Houston Ballet.The navigator will be Keiko Matsuura, a very popular ballerina comedian with over 25 YouTube subscribers.She is talented enough to win a competition and will explain her performance in an interesting and easy-to-understand manner based on her own experience.

In the first part, in addition to famous songs suitable for Christmas, the orchestra and dancers will deliver famous scenes from ballets such as ``Coppelia,'' ``Sleeping Beauty,'' and ``Don Quixote.''

The second part is a special edition of "The Nutcracker" in which dancers from the NBA Ballet appear one after another.It is a luxurious concert that can be enjoyed by both children and adults, with famous performances such as Russian dance, reed flute dance, and flower waltz appearing one after another.The grand pas de deux that marks the end of the story is performed by two guest dancers.

2023 years 12 month 16 day (Saturday)

Schedule 15:00 start (14:15 start)
Venue Ota Ward Hall / Aplico Large Hall
Genre Performance (classical)
Performance / song

Part 1 Ballet and Orchestra
Anderson: Christmas Festival
Delibes: Waltz from the ballet “Coppelia”
Delibes (E. Guiraud): Franz Variation from the ballet “Coppelia”*
Franz/Haruo Niyama

Tchaikovsky: Introduction and Lyre Dance from the ballet “Sleeping Beauty”
Tchaikovsky: Variation of Princess Aurora from Act 3 of the ballet “Sleeping Beauty”*
Princess Aurora/Hitomi Takeda

Grand pas de deux* and others from the ballet “Don Quixote”
Kitori/Yoshiho Yamada, Basil/Yuki Kota (NBA Ballet)

Part 2 Ballet Country (Sweet Country)
Tchaikovsky: From the ballet “The Nutcracker”
March
Spanish dance*
Michika Yonezu, Yuji Ide

Russian dance*
Yuzuki Kota, Koya Yanagijima

Chinese dance*
Haruka Tada

Reed flute dance*
Yoshiho Yamada, Ayano Teshigahara, Yuta Arai

Flower Waltz*
Kana Watanabe, Ryuhei Ito

Grand pas de deux*
Konpeito Fairy/Hitomi Takeda, Prince/Haruo Niyama

※ *Performance with ballet
*Please note that the program and performers are subject to change.

Appearance

Yukari Saito (conductor)
Theater Orchestra Tokyo (Orchestra)
Keiko Matsuura (navigator)

<Guest ballet dancer>
Haruo Niyama
Hitomi Takeda

NBA Ballet (Ballet)

Ticket information

Ticket information

Release date

  • Online: On sale from 2023:10 on March 11, 10 (Wednesday)!
  • Ticket dedicated phone: March 2023, 10 (Wednesday) 11: 10-00: 14 (only on the first day of sale)
  • Window sales: March 2023, 10 (Wednesday) 11:14-

*From March 2023, 3 (Wednesday), due to the construction closure of Ota Kumin Plaza, the dedicated ticket telephone and Ota Kumin Plaza window operations have changed.For details, please refer to "How to purchase tickets".

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Price (tax included)

All seats specified
General 4,500 yen
Junior high school students and younger 2,000 yen
*Admission allowed for ages 4 and older (ticket required)
*Please refrain from allowing children under the age of 3 to enter.

Entertainment details

Yukari Saito
Theater Orchestra Tokyo©Jin Kimoto
Haruo Niyama ©Maria-Helena Buckley
Hitomi Takeda
NBA Ballet Company
Keiko Matsuura

Yukari Saito (conductor)

Born in Tokyo.After graduating from the music department of Toho Girls' High School and the piano department of Toho Gakuen University, she enrolled in the ``conducting'' course at the same university and studied under Hideomi Kuroiwa, Ken Takaseki, and Toshiaki Umeda. She made her operatic debut in September 2010 conducting her youth opera Hansel and Gretel at the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto (currently the Seiji Zawa Matsumoto Festival). Starting in 9, she spent one year studying at the Kioi Hall Chamber Orchestra and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra as a conducting researcher at the Nippon Steel & Sumikin Cultural Foundation. She moved to Dresden, Germany in September 2010 and enrolled in the conducting department of the Dresden University of Music, where she studied under Professor GC Sandmann. In 2013, she won both the Audience Award and the Orchestra Award at the 9th Besançon International Conducting Competition. In 2015, he made his European debut conducting the Orchester National de Lille.Also in 54, he will perform with Daniel Ottensammer in a performance with the Tonkünstler Orchestra. From May to July 2016, he worked as an assistant to Kirill Petrenko, the musical director of Wagner's ``Parsifal,'' which was performed at the Bavarian State Opera.He has conducted the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, Kyushu Symphony Orchestra, Gunma Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan Century Symphony Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Hyogo Arts Center Orchestra, and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra.

Theater Orchestra Tokyo (Orchestra)

It was formed in 2005 as an orchestra whose main activity is in the theater, with a focus on ballet.In the same year, his performance at the K Ballet Company's production of ``The Nutcracker'' received high acclaim from all quarters, and he has performed at all performances since 2006. In January 2007, Kazuo Fukuda became music director. In April 1, he released his first CD, "Tetsuya Kumakawa's Nutcracker."His deep understanding and ambitious approach to theater music has always attracted attention, and he has been invited to perform in Japan with the Vienna State Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet, the St. Petersburg Ballet, as well as domestic and international ballet performances with the Japan Ballet Association. , Shigeaki Saegusa's "Grief", "Jr. Butterfly", "Concert of all 2009 Mozart symphonies", TV Asahi's "Anything! Classic", "World Entire Classic", Tetsuya Kumakawa's "Dance", "Hiroshi Aoshima's ballet music is wonderful" He has performed extensively in opera performances, concerts, chamber music, etc.

Haruo Niyama (guest dancer)

Former contract member of the Paris Opera.She studied under Tamae Tsukada and Mihori at Shiratori Ballet Academy. In 2014, he won 42st place at the 1nd Lausanne International Ballet Competition and 1st place in the YAGP NY Finals Senior Male Division.He received a scholarship from the Lausanne International Ballet Competition to study at the San Francisco Ballet School's trainee program. In 2016, he joined the Washington Ballet Studio Company. From 2017 to 2020, he joined the Paris Opera Ballet as a contract member.He also participated in tours of Abu Dhabi, Singapore and Shanghai. In 2019, she won first place at the Paris Opera Ballet external audition.He currently works as a freelance ballet dancer.

Hitomi Takeda (guest dancer)

Former NBA Ballet principal, former Houston Ballet member. He started studying ballet in Singapore at the age of four.In Japan, he received instruction at Midori Noguchi Ballet Studio and Shiratori Ballet Academy. From 4 to 2003 she studied abroad at The Australian Ballet School (from 2005 to 2004 she was selected as an overseas trainee by the Japan Overseas Cultural Affairs Agency). In 2005 she participated in Rock School for Dance Education as a guest dancer. From 2006 to 2007, she danced with the Houston Ballet, including works by Konpeitou from ``The Nutcracker,'' Clara, Olga from ``Onegin,'' Symphony in C Third Movement Principal, and Stanton Welch. From 2012 to 3, she was a contract dancer with the New National Theater Ballet, including Mars from "Sylvia", Autumn Spirit from "Cinderella", Miss Kanamori "Solo for two", David Bintley's E = Mc2012, Penguin Cafe, Faster, etc. , dance each piece. From 2014 to 2 at the NBA Ballet, Kitri is the main character in all acts of Don Quixote, Medora is the main character in all acts of Pirates, Mermaid is from The Little Mermaid, Clara is the main character in "The Nutcracker," Odette/Odile is the main character in Swan Lake, and Dracula is the main character in all acts of Swan Lake. She has danced the main roles such as Lucy in "Celtz", the Red Couple in "Celts", the main couple in "Stars and Stripes", and the solo in "A Little Love".

NBA Ballet (Ballet)

The only ballet company in Saitama, founded in 1993.Kubo Kubo, who was active as a principal with Colorado Ballet, will serve as artistic director.We host performances in the Tokyo metropolitan area throughout the year, including the Japanese premiere of "Dracula" in 2014, "Pirates" (partially composed and arranged by Takashi Aragaki) in 2018, "Swan Lake" by Yaichi Kubo in 2019, and Johann's "Swan Lake" in 2021. He has received high acclaim for innovative projects such as the world premiere of ``Cinderella'' choreographed by Kobo.In addition, the NBA National Ballet Competition is held every January with the aim of "nurturing young ballerinas who can fly around the world."It has produced many ballerinas who have achieved excellent results at the Lausanne International Ballet Competition and other competitions.Recently, he has been attracting attention for his wide range of activities, including appearing as a male dancer in the movie "Fly to Saitama." The company will celebrate its 1th anniversary in 2023.

Keiko Matsuura (navigator)

Yoshimoto new comedy.Started learning ballet from childhood, won 1st place in classical ballet division at Zama National Dance Competition, special jury award, Chacot Award (2015), 5th Suzuki Bee Farm "Miss Honey Queen" Grand Prix (2017), 47th place He has received numerous awards, including the Special Jury Award at the Volcano Ibaraki Festival (2018).As a ballerina comedian, she has appeared in CX "Thanks to everyone at Tunnels", "Doctor and Assistant - Impersonation Championship that is too detailed to convey", NTV "My Gaya is sorry!" (November 2019), NTV "Guru" He became a hot topic after appearing on TV programs such as “Nai Omoshiro-so 11 New Year Special” (January 2020).She also won the 2020st Newcomer Comedy Amagasaki Taisho Encouragement Award (1).In recent years, she has gained approximately 21 subscribers on her Youtube channel, ``Matsuura Keiko's Kekke Channel,'' and has held events all over the country, making her popular among everyone in the ballet industry, from small children to adults.

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