Opera: "The White Fox" Showcase & U.S. Premiere

$40 senior and student tickets are available. Call the box office at 212 501 3330.

A legendary Japanese scholar, TENSHIN OKAKURA, best known for "The BOOK of TEA", wrote his only opera libretto, "THE WHITE FOX" in Boston (1913), which became a phantom opera for nearly one century. An internationally acclaimed conductor / composer, HIDEAKI HIRAI, finally completed a 3-act opera, translated in Japanese, which made a sensational success in the World premiere performance in Myoko, Japan (2013). Featuring ASAKO TAMURA, a renowned Japanese soprano based in New York, as the heroine role of Kolha, ATSUKI SETTANGELI, who contributes his outstanding stage art as well as KYO KASUMI, a stellar ‘Tate’ sword master, who joins the Opera as fight director, it will be a memorable U.S. premiere performance of the Opera, “THE WHITE FOX”.

Hideaki Hirai, conductor / stage director
Atsuki Settangeli, stage art
Kyo Kasumi, fight director & choreographer
Asako Tamura, soprano
Ryoichi Nakai, tenor
Yuichi Toyoshima, baritone
Motomi Tanaka, soprano
Shoji Nagatomi, baritone
Kyo Kasumi, Milai Taguchi & Norihiro Maruta, supporting actors
New York Festival Chorus & Children's Chorus
Members from Circle Wind Boys & Girls Choir 
New York Festival Orchestra

Produced by New York Festival Orchestra (FORTE 90, Inc.) / ARIOSO LLC
Presented by BV Artists International (New York)