Saegusa Shigeaki

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Saegusa Shigeaki (三枝成彰; family name Saegusa) (born 1941) is a Japanese opera composer.

Saegusa is best known for his opera version Chushingura of the well-known kabuki epic of the Fort-seven Ronin with a libretto by the novelist Shimada Masahiko. Written over a period of 10 years, the opera was most recently performed at the New National Theatre, Tokyo in 2002.

He has also written the background music for anime, the foremost of which being Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. Other anime he has written for are Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, and Catnapped! The Movie.

[edit] Recordings

Chushingura was recorded in 1997 and published on compact disc (Sony Classical SK60233).

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