We must look at what has happened

Toshio Hosokawa about his opera Stilles Meer and the 2011 Fukushima catastrophe.

Two years after its celebrated premiere, Toshio Hosokawa’s opera Stilles Meer was revived at the Hamburg State Opera from 31 January 2018, in the original production by Japanese director Oriza Hirata and the musical direction once again taken by Kent Nagano. The work was enthusiastically received by critics and audiences alike; NMZ magazine commented that “Hosakawa’s sounds are so finely tuned, they generate a real undertow,” whilst BR-Klassik praised “a tremendously subtle, tentative drama […] an intense interaction with moments of tension.” Stilles Meer deals with traditional subject matter from Noh theatre, brought up to date in the context of Fukushima. Toshio Hosokawa gave an interview about the opera and its relationship to the Fukushima catastrophe during a visit to Berlin at the end of 2015.

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