Orchard Produce presents performance of 'Don Giovanni' featuring stage design by Hiroshi Sugimoto

31 January 2025

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From 20 February – 24 February, Orchard Produce will present the opera ‘Don Giovanni’, at Meguro Persimmon Hall in Tokyo, with stage design by Hiroshi Sugimoto.

Through photography, sculpture, architecture and performance, Hiroshi Sugimoto manipulates the inexorable march of time and the vast mysteries of space, stalling the clock in order to create monumental forms from historically significant or fleetingly poetic moments. For this performance, of Don Giovanni, Sugimoto is planning to incorporate the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, an architect and archaeologist who lived almost the same time as Mozart.

“Both Mozart and Piranesi are artists who lived in the second half of the 18th century. Piranesi is not as well known as Mozart, but his prints of Roman architecture and cityscapes, which he drew from ruins he discovered at the time, have influenced many writers and artists. Mozart also visited Italy on his concert tours, so he must have seen the ruins of Rome as well. I thought it would be interesting to use Piranesi's images as stage art to create on a modern stage the scenery that Mozart would have seen, and share that with the audience of this opera."

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Meguro Persimmon Hall Large Hall, 1-1-1 Yakumo, Meguro-ku, Tokyo

Image: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Staircase, Villa Farnese I, 2016, Gelatin-silver print, 93.3 x 74.9 cm, 36 3/4 x 29 1/2 in © Hiroshi Sugimoto, Courtesy Lisson Gallery