The Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre is a forum for the arts.
It is a building that hosts performing arts in the form of musical, theatrical, and dance performances, and the people who come to enjoy them.

Does that mean the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre is a place solely for people enamored with the arts?
What kind of relationship does the arts have with the real world and real life?

In serving as Artistic Director of the Theatre’s Performing Arts Division, I intend to attempt to answer those questions by continuing to ask them.

Endeavors like questioning our reality through the arts are needed to survive this world.
Or rather, there are people for whom such endeavors are needed.
In that sense, the arts are not a luxury, but a necessity.
I want the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre be a place that convincingly supplies that real, live necessity.
One that does not come off as pretentious, either!

OKADA Toshiki
Artistic Director
Performing Arts Division
Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre

"Art is an explosion!" says OKAMOTO Taro.
From that kind of meaning, I think that the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre has to be constantly exploding.
But it probably is possible to create a venue where things are mixing together, and which are full of interplay, without actually blowing up the building.
Art cannot exist if there is no contrast. There is a premise that for sound to be recognized as sound, there has to be a contrast with silence. Moreover, even if we pursue beauty, we will encounter the paradox that beauty cannot exist if there is no ugliness.
Classical music is my occupation, and I think that the image of "high threshold" that I often hear about leaves an impression when it is viewed from the front of it, but I would like visitors to absolutely see both sides of this contrast.
As such, I want to rethink the existence of Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre as a venue where people gather. Moreover, we decided to create our Harmonic City Project based on the idea of whether a reverberation would be born from a venue where various people were interacting, and connect this to harmony.
I hope that all of our visitors can look forward to future explosions at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre amid it playing a central role for a harmonic city.

Artistic Director (Music)
YAMADA Kazuki (Conductor)