Spring Festival in Tokyo 2019

Mihoko Fujimura

Mihoko Fujimura Mezzo Soprano

Mihoko Fujimura made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 2002 as Fricka in Der Ring des Nibelungen, returning for 9 years as Waltraute, Erda, Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde) and Kundry (Parsifal).

Other engagements include performances with the opera houses of Staatsoper Wien, Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, Teatro alla Scala Milano, Staatsoper München, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Théâtre du Châtelet Paris, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Große Festspielhaus Salzburg, Semperoper Dresden, Teatro Carlo Felice Genoa, Teatro Colón Buenos Aires, Teatro Real Madrid and Hamburgische Staatsoper. Her operatic repertoire includes Kundry, Brangäne, Venus, Fricka, Erda, Carmen, Melisánde, Amneris, Eboli, Fenena, Azucena, Idamante, Octavian and Klytaemnestra.

She has performed in concert with the Wiener Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam, Berliner Philharmoniker, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Rome, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Münchner Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre de Paris, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Suisse Romande Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker and Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

Concert repertoire includes Verdi Requiem, Mahler Das Lied von der Erde, Rückert-Lieder, des Knaben Wunderhorn, Kindertotenlieder, Wagner Wesendonck-Lieder and Schönberg Gurre-Lieder.

She appears regularly with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Christian Thielemann, Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons, Colin Davis, Kurt Masur, Riccard Chailly, Michael Gielen, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Kent Nagano, Fabio Luisi, Daniele Gatti, Simon Rattle, Charles Dutoit, Semyon Bychkov, Myung-whun Chung, Franz Welser-Möst, Donald Runnicles, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Daniel Harding and Adam Fischer.

She has recorded Brangäne with Antonio Pappano for EMI Classics, Gurre-Lieder with the BRSO and Mariss Jansons, Mahler Symphony No. 3 with the Bamberger Symphoniker and Jonathan Nott, and Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with Christian Thielemann and the Wiener Philharmoniker. For Fontec she has released six solo recital discs with pianist Wolfram Rieger, conductor Christoph Ulrich Meier, singing works by Wagner, Mahler, Schubert, Strauss, Brahms and Schumann.

In 2014 she was awarded the Purple Ribbon Medal of Honour by the Japanese Government for her contribution to academic and artistic developments, improvements and accomplishments.

Schedule & Ticket

Place information

• Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art
  東京都美術館

  Address

  日本、〒110-0007 東京都台東区上野公園８−３６  Map

• Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
  東京文化会館

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  日本、〒110-8716 東京都台東区上野公園５−４５  Map

• Tokyo Kinema Club
  東京キネマ倶楽部

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  日本、〒110-0003 東京都台東区根岸１丁目１−１４  Map

• Ishibashi Memorial Hall
  石橋メモリアルホール

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  日本、〒110-0015 東京都台東区東上野４丁目２４−１２  Map

• Tokyo National Museum Heiseikan
  東京国立博物館平成館

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  日本、〒110-0007 東京都台東区上野公園１３−９ 東京国立博物館内  Map

• Rising Square ground floor Earth Garden
  ライジング・スクエア1階 アース・ガーデン

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    Map

• Ueno Royal Museum
  上野の森美術館

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  日本、〒110-0007 東京都台東区上野公園１−２  Map

• National Museum of Western Art
  国立西洋美術館

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  日本、〒110-0007 東京都台東区上野公園７−７  Map

• National Science Museum
  国立科学博物館

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  日本、〒110-8718 東京都台東区上野公園７−２０  Map

• Old Tokyo Music School Gakudo
  旧東京音楽学校奏楽堂

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  日本、〒110-0007 東京都台東区上野公園８−４３  Map

• Tokyo University of the Arts
  奏楽堂

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  日本、〒110-8714 東京都台東区上野公園１２−８  Map

  Tokyo University of the Arts (東京藝術大学 , Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku) or Geidai (芸大 ) is an art school in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, and Kitasenju, Adachi, Tokyo. The university owns two halls of residence: one (for both Japanese and international students) in Adachi, Tokyo, and the other (for mainly international students) in Matsudo, Chiba.

  The university was formed in 1949 by the merger of the Tokyo Fine Arts School (東京美術学校 , Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō) and the Tokyo Music School (東京音楽学校 , Tōkyō Ongaku Gakkō) , both founded in 1887. Originally male-only, the schools began to admit women in 1946. The graduate school opened in 1963, and began offering doctoral degrees in 1977. After the National University Corporations were formed on April 1, 2004, the school became known as the Kokuritsu Daigaku Hōjin Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku ((国立大学法人東京藝術大学 ) . On April 1, 2008, the university changed its English name from "Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music" to "Tokyo University of the Arts."

  The school has had student exchanges with a number of other art and music institutions such as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA), the Royal Academy of Music (UK), the University of Sydney and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (Australia), the Korea National University of Arts, and the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.

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