Keiichiro Shibuya + Toshiki Okada Opera Performance "The End"

Date/Time :
2012-12-01 (Sat)-19:00
2012-12-02 (Sun)-15:00
Venue :
Studio A /
Admission :


Advanced tickets: ¥3,000 / “any” members & special discounts ¥2,500 / Under 26 ¥2,300
Tickets at the door: ¥3,500

Tickets sold out

Examining possibilities of vocaloid performers in the most cutting-edge opera currently feasible


Musician/artist Keiichiro Shibuya and stage director Toshiki Okada present a new opera work realized during both artists' residency at YCAM. No human singers or orchestra appear in this piece, but aria and recitativo parts are performed by vocaloid engine, is a singing software application, and video characters instead. In a scenario that progresses without any humans on stage, "The End" from Japan shakes up the human-centered conception of the opera format in Europe, while generating and traversing all sorts of underlying dichotomies in art - life/death, natural/synthetic voice, public/private, part/whole, line/layer, etc. - to make this opera a totally new emotional experience for the spectator.