木澤 譲 Jo Kizawa
講師略歴
1970 群馬県渋川市に生まれる
1988 渋川高等学校を卒業
1992 学習院大学卒業
2001 ニューヨークで様々な舞台に携わる
2008 帰国後、活動拠点を地元群馬に移す
群馬県渋川市にバレエ教室「Nバレエ塾」を開講
Yuzuru （Jo ）Kizawa is a Japanese stage director in opera and theatre and choreographer.
He was born in Shibukawa Gunma.
Early steps towards directing
From an early age “I became obsessed with the classical music and Yukio Mishima”
Kizawa states and he wanted to become an artist.
At Gakushuin university he tells that “was in all the arts and philosophy lectures I could get into. Studying ballet at the Star dancers ballet in Tokyo, there he joined the ballet company for six years and became more interested in directing than dancing when: one of his teachers said she thought Kizawa had the makings of a director. After experiencing ballet and opera productions as a ballet dancer in Tokyo, he landed an assistant director’s job at the Tokyo university opera company and the Seiji Ozawa Music Academy, a prestigious opera festival in Japan, where Kizawa assisted many of the important opera stage directors , such as Robert Carsen, David Kneusse. This led to a association with Seiji Ozawa. On his advise, Kizawa moved in New York, serving many theatre productions, spent 6 years there.
Kizawa staged many works.
Opera
・Eugene Onegin, Mignon, Die Fledermaus, Die Zauberflöte and Aida at the Tokyo University Opera Company
・Werther, Tosca, Carmen, Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Lucia di Lammermoor at the Kaze no Oka in Chiba
・La Traviata, Un Ballo in Maschera, Rigoletto, Don Carlo, Il Trovatore, Nabucco, Macbeth and Otello at the Ali Dorate Opera Company in Tokyo
・Hänsel und Gretel, Le Nozze di Figaro, Così fan Tutte, Aida, Dido and Aeneas in Tokyo
Ballet
・Don Juan by Gluck, The Creatures of Prometheus by Beethoven, Giselle Act 2, Concerto in D, Apollon Musagète by Stravinsky, Swan Lake Act 2, Daphnis et Chloé lever du jour by Ravel, Brandenburg Concerto No.6 by Bach, Waltz the second by Shostakovich at the Tokyo Sinfonia in Tokyo and Takasaki
Play
・A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titus Andronicus, The Tragedy of Coriolanus by Shakespeare in Tokyo
Ballet school performances
・Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Swan Lake, Paquita, Scheherazade, Raymonda, Dialogues des Carmélites by Poulenc, Der wunderbare Mandarin, the poetry of Scriabin, Mozart sonata No.11, Sing Sing Sing, Adagietto by Mahler, French Suites by Bach, Harpsichord Concerto in D minor BWV 1052, and so on.
Recent accomplishments
His most recent staging has been of Verdi’s Otello in New National Theater Tokyo in 2022. His staging received acclaim.
これまでの主な活動
学習院大学法学部政治学科卒業、昭和音楽芸術学院バレエ科卒業。
クラシックバレエを新井咲子、アンソニー・ライトの各氏に師事。
ダンサー、助演として、藤原歌劇団,新国立劇場の舞台にも参加する。
スターダンサーズバレエ団を経て、オペラ演出活動を開始。
演出助手として、小澤征爾音楽塾、東京オペラの森等で研鑽を積む。
2001年より2008年までニューヨークで活動し、その間数々のオペラ、バレエ、
演劇の舞台に携わり、特にオペラ演出家ロバート・カーセン氏の薫陶を受ける。
これまでに、数多くのオペラ・バレエを演出。主な作品に「ウェルテル」
「セビリアの理髪師」 「ランメルモールのルチア」「カルメン」「夕鶴」
「コジ・ファン・トゥッテ」「フィガロの結婚」「エフゲニー・オネーギン」
帰国後、アーリドラーテ歌劇団の旗揚げに参画し、
「椿姫」「仮面舞踏会」「リゴレット」「ドン・カルロ」等のオペラ作品を手掛ける。
群馬県高崎市において、バレエ教室「Nバレエ塾」を主宰し、
後進の育成とクラシックバレエの普及に情熱を注ぎ、日本型のオペラハウスを創設すべく日々活動している。