In This Season
Oct 2022 - Jul 2023
New National Theatre, Tokyo (NNTT)’s upcoming line-ups of operas, dance and ballet productions, as well as drama productions
New National Theatre, Tokyo (NNTT)’s Artistic Directors of Opera ONO Kazushi, Ballet & Dance YOSHIDA Miyako, and Drama OGAWA Eriko announced the theatre’s 2022/2023 season which opens on 2 October 2022. This season celebrates its 25th Anniversary. Here are the upcoming line-ups of operas, dance and ballet productions, as well as drama productions.

NNTT’s 22/23 Season
10 Opera Productions including 3 New Productions
- October 2022: Handel’s Giulio Cesare <New Production by Laurent PELLY>
- November 2022: Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov <25th Anniversary New Production by Mariusz TRELIŃSKI>
- December 2022: Mozart’s Don Giovanni production by Grischa ASAGAROFF
- January 2023: Wagner’s Tannhäuser production by Hans-Peter LEHMANN
- February 2023: Verdi‘s Falstaff production by Jonathan MILLER
- March 2023: Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann production by Philippe ARLAUD
- April 2023: Verdi‘s Aida <25th Anniversary Production by Franco ZEFFIRELLI>
- May 2023: Verdi‘s Rigoletto <New Production by Emilio SAGI>
- May 2023: Strauss’s Salome production by August EVERDING
- June 2023: Puccini’s La Bohème <25th Anniversary Production by AGUNI Jun>
For further details about each opera production, please visit:
https://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/news/opera/2223-season-opera.html
https://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/2022-23season/
Six Ballets & Three Dance Productions
- October 2022: Giselle <25th Anniversary New Production by YOSHIDA Miyako>
- November 2022: Dance by The National Ballet of Japan (NBJ) The Rite of Spring
- December 2022: The Nutcracker and the Mouse King choreography by Wayne EAGLING
- January 2023:
- New Year Ballet choreography by David DAWSON
- Symphony in C by BALANCHINE
- February 2023: Coppélia Ballet by Roland PETIT
- March 2023: DANCE to the Future 2023 by NBJ Choreographic Group
- April 2023:
- The Dream choreography by Sir Frederick ASHTON
- Macbeth world premiere ballet choreography by Will TUCKETT
- June 2023: Swan Lake production by Sir Peter WRIGHT (Educational Programme vol.2 Swan Lake)
- June 2023: DANCE ARCHIVES in Japan 2023
For further details about each ballet & dance production, please visit:
https://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/news/ballet-dance/2223-season-balletdance.html
https://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/2022-23season/
Seven Drama Productions
- September 2022: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee WILLIAMS
- Directed by Ivo van HOVE, performed by Odeon-Theatre de L’Europe
- October 2022: Leopoldstadt by Sir Tom STOPPARD <25th Anniversary Production>
- Translated by HIROTA Atsuro
- Directed by OGAWA Eriko
- November 2022: My Month a New Play by SUGAI Ei <Bridge to the Future Series>
- Directed by INABA Kae, developed through the Royal Court Playwrights’ Workshop
- December 2022: Beaching at Dawn a New Play by YOKOYAMA Takuya <Bridge to the Future Series>
- Directed by OSAWA Yu
- April 2023: Angels in America by Tony KUSHNER
- Translated by ODASHIMA Soshi
- Part 1 Millennium Approaches / Part 2 Perestroika – Directed by KAMIMURA Satoshi
- June 2023: A New Play by YAMADA Kana <Bridge to the Future Series>
- Directed by MANABE Takashi
- July 2023: A New Play by NAGATSUKA Keishi
- Directed by NAGATSUKA Keishi
For further details about each drama production, please visit:
https://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/news/drama/2223-season-drama.html