Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Modest Mussorgsky
Giacomo Puccini
César Cui. Igor Stravinsky
Gioachino Rossini
Francesco Cilea
Richard Wagner
Richard Strauss
Gaetano Donizetti
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Georges Bizet
Gioacchino Rossini
Alexander Ostrovsky, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Umberto Giordano
Richard Strauss
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Andrei Rubtsov
Dimitry Rostovsky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Alexei Verstovsky
Giuseppe Verdi
Anton Rubinstein
Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns
Mieczysław Weinberg
Sergei Banevich
Modest Mussorgsky
Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Georg Philipp Telemann
Sergei Prokofiev
Giuseppe Verdi
Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel
Dmitry Shostakovich
Tatiana Kamysheva
Georges Bizet
Giacomo Puccini
Jacques Offenbach
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Dmitry Shostakovich
Hector Berlioz
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Written in 1927/28, the eccentric opera based on the short story of the same name by N. V. Gogol marked an excellent debut for the young composer in the operatic genre. The libretto belongs to Shostakovich himself, who included the scenes and dramatic storylines from other works by Gogol (the play Marriage, the short stories The Overcoat, Diary of a Madman and others), as well as Smerdyakov’s song from The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. Writers and dramaturgs, such as Yevgeny Zamyatin (The Awakening of Major Kovalyov), Alexander Preys and Georgy Ionin (the fragments from Act III) were involved in the work on certain scenes.
The world premiere was supposed to take place at the Bolshoi Theatre. It was expected that Vsevolod Meyerhold would stage the production. However, that plan was not destined to be realised because of the master’s extreme pressure of work. The first performance was held in 1930 on the stage of the Maly Opera Theatre in Leningrad, the legendary MALEGOT that was then considered the “laboratory of Soviet opera”.
Premiered at the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre on September 12, 1974.
Presented with one interval.
Libretto by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Georgy Ionin, Alexander Preis and Dmitry Shostakovich based on the novel of the same name by Nikolai Gogol
Wednesday, 19:00
Tuesday, 19:00
Saturday, 19:00
Tuesday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Act I
Either in a dream or in reality, the barber Ivan Yakovlevich is doing his hateful job in a drunken stupor. Ivan Yakovlevich and his wife Praskovya are taken aback to a nose in a bread roll. The panic-stricken barber tries to dispose of the evidence.
When he wakes up in the morning, Major Kovalyov discovers his nose has disappeared.
Inside Kazan Cathedral, Major Kovalyov unexpectedly meets his nose and tries to speak to it.
A newspaper advertisements department: Kovalyov tries to submit an advertisement about the disappearance of his nose. Unsuccessfully...
Kovalyov’s apartment... The major’s footman Ivan is relaxing quietly, and Kovalyov’s despair increases…