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Yuri Kasahara

Yuri Kasahara
Origin Japan

Yuri (Kasahara) Shinada (新南田 (笠原)ゆり Shinada (Kasahara), Yuri ) is a Japanese female opera singer.

Shinada (Kasahara), Yuri is a graduate of URAWA AKENOHOSHI GIRLS' SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.

Toho Gakuen School of Music, majoring in singing, minoring in piano. During university attendance, she debuted in A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Saitama Hall.

She was a student and certified of Franco Corelli santa margherita voice academy in Italy.

Learned Schubert's Lied from Elly Ameling.

Diploma Royal Academy of Music in 2010.

In 1989 - 1995, she was the part of the Queen of the Night in a production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Shinjuku Cultural Center. She is an actress, known for Violetta (La Traviata) conducted , Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi ), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel ), Juliette (The count of Luxembourg), In addition, she has performed a multitude of operettas for many concerts.

In 1990, Shinada (Kasahara), Yuri crossed over from Japan to Italy for further operatic studies. She passed many auditions for operas, performed in music festivals, and was regarded as one of Japan's finest vocalists. Several years passed, and she returned home, with further confidence for the Japanese stage.

In 1994, she went with the Japanese Performance Association to a French music competition and won first prize. During the same year, she performed in the Toho Gakuen School of Music's 30th anniversary ceremony as one of the top students. Kasahara also performed in the Coca-Cola Special Musical Opera (also known as The Magic of Coke, with a nationwide performance).

She has been writing lyrics for operas, obtaining high appraisal for her work in the entire musical score for Love Believing. She has also worked on the music and script for Akai Kutsu ( Red Shoes ) and the operatic adaptation of the Yokohama fairy tale Aoi Hitomi. All of her works have been performed in multiple opera circuits in Asia. Also, she has been noted for working with Yuki Kajiura on the anime series Noir, Aquarian Age: Sign for Evolution, and the OVA .hack//Liminality, in which she sang four versions of the song "liminality". A few of Kasahara's lines from "liminality" also make a cameo with Emily Bindiger on a remix of the .hack//SIGN song "The World", and she has been spotted frequently as a guest vocalist with See-Saw. She also makes an appearance on Kajiura's solo album Fiction, singing a redone version of "Salva Nos" (from Noir) and a new song "Red Rose". In 2006, Shinada (Kasahara) sang for the soundtrack My-Otome in the song "MATERIALISE".


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