KEIICHIRO SHIBUYA ANDROID OPERA MIRROR-Deconstruction and Rebirth-

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How far can humans and machines truly connect?

An Android Opera that depicts the boundaries between life and death, creating a sensation in Dubai, Paris, and Tokyo

This work features an AI-equipped Android that sings, accompanied by a live orchestra, piano, electronic sounds, visuals, and Shomyo—Buddhist chanting with 1,200 years of history. It dissolves the very boundaries and conflicts between human and technology, East and West, tradition and innovation, life and death, presenting a new model of harmony.

Following performances at Expo 2020 Dubai (2022), Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris (2023), and Suntory Hall in Tokyo in November 2025, the latest Android Opera work "MIRROR"—Deconstruction and Rebirth—finally makes its debut in Osaka.

Composed and produced by Keiichiro Shibuya, an internationally active musician whose work spans cutting-edge electronic music, piano solos, opera, film scores, and sound installations.

At the center of the stage appears "Android Maria," modeled after Shibuya's late wife, Maria. Keiichiro Shibuya (piano and electronics), the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra (guest concertmaster: Tatsuki Narita), and Koyasan Shomyo resonate together, deeply stirring the relationship between human and machine, life and death, under the theme of "deconstruction and rebirth."

Additionally, visuals by Justine Emard, the visual artist who served as artistic director for the France Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, will be projected on large screens, visually expressing the world of "MIRROR."

Since losing his beloved wife in 2008, Shibuya's creative work has evolved from the piano solo piece "for maria" (2008), to the human-absent Vocaloid Opera "THE END" (2012) starring Hatsune Miku, and then to the "Android Opera" series that began in 2018, continuously questioning the boundaries between life and death. This was not merely the sublimation of grief, but also "an act of seeking to find life within death and to perceive the presence of death within life." That trajectory crystallizes like a prayer and circulates like reincarnation—"MIRROR"—Deconstruction and Rebirth—represents the culmination of this journey.