Director's Program 2025
[Director's Program 2]
Starlight Passage and Soundscape Garden
Oct 12 - 13 2025
Gate opens 18:00
Venue: Kairakuen Garden, starting from the main (Omote) gate along the walking path toward Miharashi Plaza
Planning and Artistic Direction - Kaito Nakahori
This is a site-specific outdoor music performance woven into the landscape of Kairakuen Garden — one of Japan’s Three Great Gardens — blending music with the experience of moving through the illuminated garden paths at dusk and evening. The program emphasizes soundscapes and musical storytelling along with the visual ambience of the garden pathway and open plaza.
Moso Bamboo Forest
Shika no Tone for shakuhachi (traditional work)
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Osugi Forest
Luciano Berio: Sequenza XII for bassoon
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Miharashi Plaza
Toru Takemitsu: Air for flute
J.S. Bach: Cello Suite (selections, arranged for bassoon)
Toshio Hosokawa: Threnody for viola
Jean Sibelius: Theme and Variations for cello in D minor
Kaito Nakahori: Bubbles and Shadows for shakuhachi and recorder
Luciano Berio: Gesti for recorder
[Director's Program 1]
Oriza Hirata + Kaito Nakahori
Theater Opera "The Star Has No Sound -Clockwork Universe-"
Oct 11 2025
Open 14:00 Starts 14:40
Venue: The Hirosawa City Hall – Main Hall
Playwright & Director: Oriza Hirata
Composer & Conductor: Kaito Nakahori
Concept
Playwright and director Oriza Hirata and composer Kaito Nakahori will work on their second theater opera. With the themes of the universe and imagery, the latest 3D audio technology will be used to create a multidimensional space in which Hirata’s contemporary colloquial theater and Nakahori’s contemporary music arias featuring vocalise (singing technique using vowel sounds or nonsense syllables) alternate. The work is a result of exploration to realize an ultimate art work where elements of contemporary theater, music, and art interact.
It is co-produced by Toyooka Theater Festival, Setouchi Triennale and Mito International Music Festival in 2025.
About the work (Theater Opera)
