
Giacomo Puccini

Mieczysław Weinberg

Giuseppe Verdi

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Giuseppe Verdi

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Benjamin Britten

Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann

Carl Maria von Weber — Gustav Mahler

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Alexander Tchaikovsky

Giacomo Puccini

Alexander Dargomyzhsky

Richard Strauss

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Giuseppe Verdi

Antonín Dvořák

Dmitri Shostakovich

Gaetano Donizetti

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Sergei Banevich

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

George Frideric Handel

Georges Bizet

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Gioachino Rossini

Dimitry Rostovsky

Giacomo Puccini

Richard Wagner

Richard Strauss

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Georges Bizet

Dmitri Shostakovich
Alexei Verstovsky

Anton Rubinstein

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Georg Philipp Telemann

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Guiseppe Verdi

Sergei Prokofiev

Modest Mussorgsky

Antonio Salieri

Gaetano Donizetti

Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Gioacchino Rossini

Dmitri Shostakovich
Umberto Giordano

Modest Mussorgsky
Hector Berlioz

Giacomo Puccini

Jacques Offenbach

Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Tatiana Kamysheva

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 Dmitri Shostakovich based on the novel of the same name by Nikolai Gogol
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 Kovalev discovers his nose has disappeared.
Inside Kazan Cathedral, Major Kovalev unexpectedly meets his nose and tries to speak to it.
A newspaper advertisements department: Kovalev tries to submit an advertisement about the disappearance of his nose. Unsuccessfully...
Kovalev’s apartment... The major’s footman Ivan is relaxing quietly, and Kovalev’s despair increases…