On June 18th, at Ebisu The Garden Hall, the Tokyo homecoming performance of the android opera “MIRROR,” composed and produced by Keiichiro Shibuya, took place under the title ANDROID OPERA TOKYO. This work is a large-scale theatrical production that was first staged in 2023 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. It features a combination of the android, an orchestra, Shomyo (Buddhist chant), Shibuya’s piano performance, electronic music, as well as video and lighting. The work was initially presented at Expo 2020 Dubai in 2022 and was later re-created as a 70-minute piece. After its premiere in Paris, this is its first performance in Japan.
UPCOMING PERFORMANCE
Keiichiro Shibuya Android Opera MIRROR
— Deconstruction and Rebirth —
Composed and produced by Keiichiro Shibuya, the Android Opera MIRROR is a groundbreaking work in which an AI-equipped android sings alongside a 60-piece orchestra, piano, electronics, video, and shōmyō—Buddhist chant with a 1,200-year history. Having been staged at Expo 2020 Dubai and Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and selling out instantly at its Tokyo performance last year, the production will finally come to Suntory Hall on Wednesday, November 5. Blurring the boundaries between human and technology, East and West, tradition and innovation, life and death, it offers a vision of a new model of harmony in the performing arts.
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