Matsukaze

Brussels Opera "Matsukaze" is the world premiere of Toshio Hosokawa's latest opera, based on a Japanese Noh play, featuring the voices of Barbara Hannigan, Charlotte Hellekant and Frode Olsen, with choreography by Sasha Waltz.

What's on Around Europe 2011

(Matsukaze: a woman play) In Pining Wind, the mood of autumn deepens.

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I was told it grows there in memory of two fisher girls, Matsukaze and Murasame.

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Suma, the scene of Matsukaze, now lies within the city limits of Kobe.

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I shall ask for a night's lodging. [to Matsukaze and Murasame]

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They seem distressed at the mention of Matsukaze and Murasame.

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Only at the conclusion of the play does the reader (or, even more so, the spectator) realize how completely he has been gripped by the lyrical and dramatic tension, when he is released from the dream by one of the most effective wordplays in literature: Matsukaze and her sister Murasame (Autumn Rain) withdraw, and suddenly the chorus restores their names to their original meanings.

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The pine is linked with the memory of two fisher girls, Matsukaze and Murasame.

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Most of Matsukaze, however, appears to have been the invention of the playwright.

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Matsukaze goes to the first pine on the bridgeway, then returns to the stage and dances.

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