After being forced to cancel shows in light of the current state of emergency, the New National Theatre Tokyo will be streaming its performances online for free. This season, the company is putting on Roland Petit's version of ‘Coppélia’, a comic ballet about a young man who falls in love with a doll after mistaking it for a real maiden. Though the original ballet was first performed in Paris in 1870, its playful humour as well as the themes of love and loneliness have proved to transcend time as well as cultural barriers.
This upcoming live-stream on Saturday May 8 at 2pm will be the final show of the season. It features principal dancers Ayako Ono as Swanilda, Takafumi Watanabe as Franz, and Ryuji Yamamoto as Coppelius. The live video, roughly two hours, will not be available to watch after the performance ends.
You can access the live-stream via the official New National Theatre Tokyo YouTube channel.