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- Hiroshi Oga has
been involved in Japanese opera for the past 40 years,
commissioning and producing many new works by Japanese
composers. Since 1980 he has been the General Director
of the Nihon Opera Kyokai (in English the Japan Opera
Association). He is also Managing Director of the
Japan Opera Foundation.
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- Simon Holledge
interviewed him in Tokyo on December 21st. Yasuhiro
Miura, an English-speaking tenor soloist with the
Nihon Opera Kyokai, interpreted. Some annotations are
provided in [square] brackets.
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