
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Alexander Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Georges Bizet

Giacomo Puccini

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Mieczysław Weinberg

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Giacomo Puccini

Giuseppe Verdi

Giacomo Puccini

Sergei Banevich

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Francesco Cilea

Sergei Prokofiev

Modest Mussorgsky

Dmitry Shostakovich

Richard Wagner
Camille Saint-Saëns

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Gaetano Donizetti

Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns

Georg Philipp Telemann

Hector Berlioz

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Jacques Offenbach

Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel

Tatiana Kamysheva

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
César Cui. Igor Stravinsky

Richard Strauss

Gioachino Rossini

Dmitri Shostakovich

Gioacchino Rossini
Alexander Ostrovsky, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Giuseppe Verdi

Anton Rubinstein

Richard Strauss

Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann

Benjamin Britten

Georges Bizet

Dimitry Rostovsky

Modest Mussorgsky

Umberto Giordano

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Andrei Rubtsov

Giuseppe Verdi

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Alexei Verstovsky

Dmitry Shostakovich

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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
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…