Notte Stellata | Mar 7-9, 2025

[DizzyFrenchie]

Here's Yuzuru Hanyu's announcement before the show:
https://x.com/notte_2025/status/1898693467737362749?ref_url=


The weather was still cold and windy, but beautiful, and the bouquets were exhibited outside:
https://x.com/marika_yuzu/status/1898570776716190200?ref_url=

 

[Magill]

Mansai Nomura's post-show remarks on the origin and meaning of what has been already nicknamed the Kyogen Bolero or Japanese Bolero, or...

https://hochi.news/articles/20250308-OHT1T51015.html?page=1

 

[TallyT]

Whoa...

 

[Magill]

A, article on Notte Stellata by Tokyo Sports based on an interview with Akiko Suzuki who also took part in the charity show

羽生結弦から伝わってきた野村萬斎との〝共鳴〟共演・鈴木明子さん「神聖な時間を感じました」 | 東スポWEB

別格の“オーラ”だった...

www.tokyo-sports.co.jp

 

[Magill]

A, article on Notte Stellata by Tokyo Sports based on an interview with Akiko Suzuki who also took part in the charity show

羽生結弦から伝わってきた野村萬斎との〝共鳴〟共演・鈴木明子さん「神聖な時間を感じました」 | 東スポWEB

別格の“オーラ”だった...

www.tokyo-sports.co.jp

And here's from Akiko to us all:
"We are truly grateful for the opportunity to share this special time with you all under the stars, filled with hopes and prayers.
I myself have also been given the strength to live.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Yuzuru, Mansai Nomura, all my co-stars, the staff, and the audience who warmly supported me "

https://x.com/Mariakko2010/status/1898915282833547665

 

[TallyT]

Akiko's skate was lovely, they all were.

 

[Magill]

Akiko's skate was lovely, they all were.

This is very true. Here's from Jason
"It is always an honor to be a part of Notte Stellata and to be able to take part in the show commemorating the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake with such great skaters. I am very grateful for Yuzu's activities not only in the skating world but also in various other fields! . . .
I'm also grateful for Mansai-san's kindness! I was in awe of the collaboration between Yuzu and Mansai-san!
Thank you to everyone who came to the venue and those who watched from afar!
And thank you to all the staff for all your support!!Everyone, I hope you're well! "

 

[Magill]

And here's a bit of Jason's Tarzan at work!

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

And here's a bit of Jason's Tarzan at work!

There are so many original steps just for this program!

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

This video on NTV official Youtube channel has a first bit of interview of Yuzuru Hanyu, then extracts of Notte Stellata (the program), of Bolero, of Seimei, of the Finale, then another bit of interview of Yuzuru Hanyu, then advice to the Japanese population, regarding what they ought to have at home in case of natural disaster; automated subtitles are available, but as usually with japanese, with random pronouns and even names errors:
https://youtu.be/aQeVJcpM9Dg

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Yuzuru Hanyu has posted these two photos on his Instagram account:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHBkDY9Pl2o/

 

[Wynter]

IIRC we cannot post links from another site? There are many Notte Stellata's programs in the FigureSkating thread there. Fans have been avoiding to share in Twitter because the copyright police there are getting more annoying.

I like the Bolero. I think it has always been meant as a group program and I like the way they do the full length and build the tension gradually. Mansai Nomura is amazing too.

 

[Magill]

And here's more from Akiko, this time a set of great pics on her IG !
As for photos 2 and 3, maybe it is worth explaining to those who have not seen the show that the iconic Bolero is a collaboration of Mansai Nomura with six skaters - Yuzuru of course plays a special part in it, but others are Akiko, Shea Lynn Bourne who choreographed their part on the ice, Satoko Miyahara, Takahashi Mura and Keiji Tanaka, so these photos show the Bolero team while on the first one you can see the whole cast.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Here are a few words en English from Yuzuru Hanyu, as Violetta Afanasieva doesn't have a Fan Fest I post it here:

Violetta Afanasieva on Instagram: "Greetings to Gloucester SC family from Yuzuru Hanyu, David Wilson and full cast of Notte Stellata! 💙✨ @gloucesterskatingclub"

violettahoops on March 10, 2025: "Greetings to Gloucester SC family from Yuzuru Hanyu, David Wilson and full cast of Notte Stellata! 💙✨ @gloucesterskatingclub".

www.instagram.com

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Here's a (very partial) press review, I embed only the two first links in order not to have to divide it into several posts:
https://x.com/tospo_olympic/status/1897841357773046039


https://x.com/SPCOM_JP/status/1899000572377976957


https://x.com/THEDIGESTweb/status/1898969411995697573
https://x.com/tokuriki/status/1898533292066160909
https://x.com/tospo_olympic/status/1898934913279402098

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Here are photos posted by Nomura Mansai himself, with the Bolero final jump under three angles!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHDerSBRG4l/?img_index=1

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

There are so, so many fanart works! Many simply celebrate Notte Stellata, for instance with Swanyu:

https://x.com/RowanTree868237/status/1898736199084150978

(Is this a painting over a cloth?)

https://x.com/senikuuu1114/status/1898814622070919642

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Others with Haru yo! Koi, although it was little shown in TV news:

https://x.com/milkandegg/status/1899265451605324067

I post only one Haru yo! koi fanart, because this fanartist was at Notte Stellata and noticed a smile of Yuzuru Hanyu which she tried to reproduce and which she found to be feline:

https://x.com/bean04097/status/1899080319682383981

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Many highlight the collaboration between Yuzuru Hanyu and Nomura Mansai:

https://x.com/chanRiru1994/status/1899228439636496395

I have read, I don't know if it's true, that Nomura Mansai had never been seen smiling so much (nor smiling at all, in general, in professional circumstances) and that it's maybe the first time ever that a Kyogen actor hugs someone in public?

https://x.com/sweetspecoco/status/1898930882754609223

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Many too, remembered the Great Eastern Earthquake on its fourteenth anniversary:

https://x.com/lPINWHZ0ewgVkxV/status/1899232108603998363

https://x.com/toberu_4A/status/1899221411669168625