A portrait image of musician Ryuichi Sakamoto against a grey background

KAGAMI

Tickets

Presented by Asia TOPA, Arts Centre Melbourne

KAGAMIRyuichi Sakamoto and Tin Drum

Australian Exclusive

Dates

19 February 202516 March 2025

Venue

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

One of the most acclaimed and groundbreaking new shows of recent years, KAGAMI is an extraordinary and profoundly moving performance by Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.

KAGAMI is a collaboration between mixed reality pioneers Tin Drum and Sakamoto. Sakamoto’s internationally-acclaimed body of work ranges from influential electronic pioneers Yellow Magic Orchestra to his hugely acclaimed soundtrack work Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, The Revenant and The Last Emperor, for which he won an Academy Award.

KAGAMI is a new kind of performance. Audiences are invited to wear glasses that fuse three-dimensional moving images with the real world. The result is an intimate encounter with Sakamoto and a ground-breaking mixed reality performance experience. A truly immersive work that removes any barrier between the performance, the audience and the artist himself, KAGAMI puts you on the stage with Sakamoto.

KAGAMI is a uniquely intimate, elegiac gift that moves us to reconnect with Sakamoto’s genius and be transfixed by the beauty of his music once again. Simply exquisite.

★★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★★ NME
★★★★★ Manchester Evening News
★★★★ Observer
★★★★ The Daily Telegraph

Naomi Milgrum

Notes:

Age restriction: 14+. There is no late seating and no re-entry.

The mixed reality headsets used in KAGAMI will not fit comfortably over prescription eyewear. Guests requiring vision correction should wear contact lenses if able to do so. A limited number of corrective lenses will be available but these do not guarantee perfect vision correction.

A scent has been specially created for this production.

It is an otherworldly, strangely moving, even ground-breaking experience, and will ensure that what is effectively Sakamoto’s final concert can be enjoyed forever.

— The Guardian ★★★★★