Presented By: The Bates Department of Music: With guest performers, Annabelle Plum, Akihito Obama and Hidejiro Honjoh, the concert will showcase the excerpts from the opera featuring extended voice, shakuhachi, and shamisen, Japanese traditional instruments. 4711 is a multilingual opera reimagining the correspondence between Franz Kafka and Milena Jesenská, exploring themes of isolation, identity, and the ‘impossibility of writing.