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“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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
As part of the Metropolitan Opera's "Live in HD" series, William Kentridge's production of Shostakovich's opera about a beleaguered Russian official and his satirical misadventures in search of his ...
What would you do if you woke up one morning to find that your nose was missing and it had gone to live a life of its own? How would you go about getting your nose back? The bureaucrat Kovalyov, sung ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Met has announced themed lineups for two weeks of its Nightly Met Opera ...
IF YOU GO* What: Screening of Metropolitan Opera's "The Nose"by Dmitri Shostakovich* When: 12:55 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26;6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30* Where: East Ridge 18, 5080 South Terrace ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. For a director as bold as Barrie Kosky, Shostakovich’s The Nose is a gift. Written in the late 1920s, when Russian ...