Choreographer Yuri Possokhov Libretto Gary Wang | Music Shinji Eshima Original ballet company San Francisco Ballet | |
Premiere 3 February 2011
War Memorial Opera House Design Alexander V. Nichols (sets and projection), Christopher Dennis (lighting), and Mark Zappone (costumes) | ||
RAkU is a ballet made by Yuri Possokhov to music he commissioned from Shinji Eshima for the San Francisco Ballet. The première took place on Thursday, 3 February 2011 at the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco. Based on the 1950 burning of Kyoto’s Golden Pavilion, the action was moved to an unspecified past era.
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