Kazuko Hara

Kazuko Hara

nihongo|Kazuko Hara|原 嘉壽子|"Hara Kazuko"|extra=born 1935 is a prolific Japanese opera composer.

Between 1978 and 1999 she wrote 18 operas, many of them performed in Tokyo by the Nihon Opera Kyokai or the Nikikai Opera. One work was performed in Italy. In general she has preferred Japanese subjects, however her second opera was about Sherlock Holmes and she composed an opera on Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment for a large-scale production at the New National Theatre, Tokyo in 1999.

elected operas

*"Father Kibe" (?)
*"The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes (Confession)" after Conan Doyle (1981)
*"Iwai Uta ga Nagareru Yoruni" (1984)
*"Shita wo Kamikitta Onna" (1986)
*"Sute Hime" (1989)
*"Yosakoi Bushi" (1990)
*"Tsumi to batsu (Crime and Punishment)" after Dostoevsky (1999)

Other works

*"Preludio, aria e toccata" for guitar (1970)

Recordings

*"Yosakoi Bushi" has been recorded and published on laserdisc.


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