Dmitri Shostakovich
THE NOSE
Libretto by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Georgy Ionin, Alexander Preys, and the composer
metropolitan opera premiere: march 5, 2010
Artist william Kentridge defies genres with shostakovich’s adaptation
of Gogol’s story. “the opera is about the terrors of hierarchy,” Kentridge
says. “there’s a mixture of anarchy and the absurd that interests me.
i love in this opera the sense that anything is possible.” the new
production is conducted by definitive shostakovich interpreter Valery
Gergiev. Acclaimed baritone Paulo szot, who won a tony Award ®
for South Pacific, makes his Met debut as the man who wakes up to
discover that his nose has disappeared.
mar 5, 11, 13 mat, 18, 23, 25
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cast
introduction Act i
Various soloists; Valery Gergiev,
the orchestra of the Mariinsky theater
excerpt from Act ii, scene 1
Various soloists; Valery Gergiev,
the orchestra of the Mariinsky theater
creative team
william Kentridge describes his approach to staging
and designing shostakovich’s opera.
production underwritten by frederick iseman
additional funding is provided by the richard J. massey foundation for the arts and sciences
a co-production of the metropolitan opera, the festiva d’aix-en-provence and the opéra national de lyon, france
The Nose audio excerpts courtesy of the Mariinsky label
The Nose audio excerpts in Kentridge video courtesy of Melodiya; Moscow chamber opera
conducted by Gennady rozhdestvensky
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