INFORMATION

Hokutopia International
Music Festival 2022 5 November – 15 December

[ Armide ]

Music: Jean-Baptiste Lully
Libretto: Philippe Quinault (Based on Torquato Tasso’s La Gerusalemme liberata)
Semi-stage style opera in Prologue and 5 acts
Sung in French with Japanese surtitles
Friday 9 December 2022, 6 pm
Sunday 11 December 2022, 2 pm
Hokutopia, Sakura Hall
1-11-1 Oji, Kita-ku, Tokyo, Japan
(3 minutes walk from Oji Station of JR Keihin-Tohoku Line or Tokyo Metro Namboku Line)

Conductor & 1st violin: Ryo Terakado
Director, Choreographer & Baroque dancer: Pierre-François Dollé
Director: Romana Agnel
Orchestra & Choir: Les Boréades (Period-instruments Orchestra)　

Baroque dancers: Nikoleta Giankaki, Dariusz Brojek, Sarasa Matsumoto

Armide: Claire Lefilliâtre
Renaud: Philippe Talbot
Other singers : Mutsumi Hatano, Ayako Yukawa, Kei Yonashiro, Yukihiro Yamamoto,
Yosuke Taniguchi, Katsuhiko Nakashima etc.

Tickets
Buy tickets online　　
9 December: SS seats ¥8000, S seats ¥6000, A seats ¥3000
11 December: SS seats ¥9000, S seats ¥7000, A seats ¥4000
Discount for Person 25 and under: 50% OFF
(ID with the date of birth required.)
Person who lives in Kita city of Tokyo discount: ¥1000 OFF (SS and S seats.)
All reserved-seats.

Inquires
Kita-ku Culture Foundation +81 (0)3 5390 1221, 9 am – 5 pm (weekdays only)

Sponsored and produced by: Kita-Ku Culture Foundation
Cosponsored by: Kita City of Tokyo
Supported by: The Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2022,
Rohm Music Foundation, The Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences,
The Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Foundation for the Arts,
Fondation Franco Japonaise Sasakawa, Zankoku Zeirishi Kyoeikai Culture Foudation,
Nomura Foundation, The Asahi Shimbun Foundation

[ Les Epopées – Let the night be long ]

Friday 18 November 2022, 7 pm
Hokutopia Sakura Hall

Soprano: Claire Lefilliâtre
Viola da gamba: Emmanuel Girard
Harpsichord: Stéphane Fuget

Program
Sébastien Le Camus: Laissez durer la nuit
Jean-Henry d’Anglebert: Suite en sol
Joseph Chabanceau de La Barre: Allez bergers, dessus l’herbette
Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Au bord d’une fontaine
Marin Marais: Chaconne
Michel Lambert: Goûtons un doux repos
etc.

Tickets
¥4000
Person who lives in Kita city of Tokyo discount: ¥500 OFF
Discount for Person 25 and under: 50% OFF
(ID with the date of birth required.)
All reserved-seats
Inquires: Kita-ku Culture Foundation +81 (0)3 5390 1221, 9 am – 5 pm (weekdays only)

Tax included.
Preschool children not accepted. (except “Geidai to Asobo”)
Performers are subjected to change.
Person who lives in Kita city of Tokyo discount: Hokutopia box office only. ID with resident address in Kita city required. (limited to 4 tickets per person)
Under 25s person discount: ID with the date of birth required / for 25 years and under person)