Live Events
Kansai TV presents an exciting line up of live events and performing arts. Over the years, Kansai TV has produced, organized and promoted large scale events and performing arts to cater for all audiences.
Kansai TV has organized ten Japan tours of the dynamic dance entertainment shows “Burn the Floor” and “Floorplay”, to a total audience of near 500,000!
Kansai TV also supports and sponsors the classic and traditional arts. We have organized Japan tours of the Paris Opera, Teatro San Carlo of Napoli and Teatro Verdi Trieste, and the "Osaka Heisei Nakamura-za" with star Kabuki actor Nakamura Kanzaburo in an Edo period Kabuki theatre.
We also hold the hugely popular Cirque du Soleil performances in Osaka, and recently held the immensely successful "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" exhibition in Osaka.
Kansai TV continues to bring you the best in live entertainment!
Special Exhibition
INSECT
LET’S KONKATSU！Let’s go insect hunting！
This summer- don’t miss the hottest INSECT exhibition introducing the latest research！
A wondrous exhibition featuring all the great and fun and glorious faces of insects！
In this special exhibition we display rare insects collected from around the globe, and show their extraordinary abilities, as well as the correct way to insect hunt. This unique exhibition is sure to start a great "KONKATSU＝insect hunting" boom this summer！
Details
Dates： July 13th （Sat） to September 29th （Sun）
Open： 9：30am to 5pm（Last admission 30 minutes before closing time）
Closed：July 16th （Tue） 22nd （Mon） 29th （Mon）
August 19th （Mon） 26th （Mon）
September 2nd （Mon）9th （Mon）17th （Tue）24th （Tue）
Venue： Osaka Museum of Natural History （In Nagai Park）
Tickets
■Advance sales
Adults：1,200 JPY
University / High school students：600 JPY
■At the Door
Adults：1,400 JPY
University / High school students：800 JPY
＊Advance sale tickets available from June 1st to July 12th
＊Children （up to Junior high school students）, disabled people with one attendant：Free
Ballett am Rhein “Swan Lake”
“Swan Lake” as you’ve never seen before！
Led by Martin Schläpfer,
Ballett am Rhein makes its sensational Japan debut！
Martin Schläpfer
（ Ballett am Rhein Artistic Director, First Choreographer ）
Ballett am Rhein is the ballet company of Deutsche Oper am Rhein, one of Germany’s leading opera houses founded in 1956.It continues to enthrall audiences around Europe with its outstanding performances, and will make its much anticipated Japan debut with “Swan Lake”, Tchaikovsy’s most famous ballet. Swiss choreographer Martin Schläpfer’s innovative version of “Swan Lake” premiered in Germany in June 2018. Stylish and highly individual in its dance, costumes, lighting and scenery, this modern “Swan Lake” was a huge success captivating audiences in sold out performances. This will mark the first time Martin Schläpfer’s “Swan Lake” has been performed abroad. An experience of the world of “ultimate art” not to be missed.
Program
“Swan Lake”
Choreography： Martin Schläpfer
Performance： Ballett am Rhein
Conductor： Motonori Kobayashi（Conductor, Theater Dortmund）
Orchestra： Theater Orchestra Tokyo（Tokyo performance）
Osaka Symphony Orchestra （Hyogo performance）
Schedule
Tokyo performance
Dates：
September 20th （Fri） 6：30pm （doors open 5：45 pm）
September 21st （Sat）11：30am （doors open 10：45am）
6：30pm （doors open 5：45 pm）
Venue： Orchard Hall, Bunkamura
Hyogo performance
Dates： September 28th （Sat）3：00pm （doors open 2：15 pm）
Venue： Grand Hall, Hyogo Performing Arts Center
Tickets
On sale from May 25th （Sat） 10am
S seats：20,000 JPY, A seats：17,000 JPY, B seats：14,000 JPY, C seats：11,000 JPY
D seats：8,000 JPY, SS seats：25,000 JPY
All seats reserved, incl.tax
＊No admission for children under school age
http://ib.eplus.jp/am-rhein/
Photos by Gert Weigelt