On Dec. 8, 2023, the highly anticipated opera The Nose, composed by Dimitri Shostakovich in 1928, made its long-awaited Chicago debut at the prestigious Harris Theatre. Based on Nikolai Gogol’s 1836 ...
“The Nose” wasn’t planned as Lidiya Yankovskaya’s swan song from Chicago Opera Theater, the company she’s led as music director since 2017. But Dmitri Shostakovich’s absurdist political satire, ...
William Kentridge stormed the Met with his inventive production of Shostakovich’s opera, which dazzled opera and art lovers alike in its inaugural run in 2010. Now Paulo Szot reprises his acclaimed ...
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William Kentridge’s hilarious production of Dimitri Shostakovich’s opera The Nose returned to Lincoln Center this fall, after opening first in 2010. The opera finds the comedy of humanity and its ...
Composed when Shostakovich was just 21 years old, fresh from the conservatoire and still high on the success of his First Symphony, The Nose is a piece of musical rebellion - a fantasy of abrasive, ...
The Opera Group’s production of Shostakovich’s The Nose at the Linbury Studio, Covent Garden is a worthy alternative to the big Russian companies currently taking London by storm. With the Bolshoi in ...
Of all Shostakovich’s compositions, The Nose is surely the closest he came to committing outright musical rebellion. In choosing to adapt Nikolay Gogol’s tale for the stage he took a piece of satire ...
William Kentridge stormed the Met with his inventive production of Shostakovich’s opera, which dazzled opera and art lovers alike in its inaugural run in 2010. Now Paulo Szot reprises his acclaimed ...
Last Saturday, the 1891 Fredonia Opera House presented a performance by the company of the Metropolitan Opera House, in New York City, of an opera by Dmitri Shostakovich, based on a short story by ...
After its premiere in 1930 the 22-year-old composer was attacked by, among others, the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians. Based on Nikolai Gogol’s satirical tale of a man who wakes up to ...
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