A 2013 performance of the Shostakovich satire The Nose will air online July 1, with Tony winner Paulo Szot (South Pacific) as Kovalyov, a Russian aristocrat whose nose goes missing. In this recording it is very well done. He turned to a tiny short story by Gogol: an absurdist satire, where a civil servant’s errant nose launches its owner on a ludicrous battle against both nose and the authorities, as bureaucratic processes break down in the face of so unusual a problem. With Pavel Smelkov, Patricia Racette, Paulo Szot, Vladimir Ognovenko.

Dmitri Shostakovich 1906 - 1975 : List of operas: Orango . ‘The Nose’ is one of the young Shostakovich’s greatest masterpieces, an electrifying tour de force of vocal acrobatics, wild instrumental colours and theatrical absurdity, all shot through with a blistering mixture of laughter and rage. Set in St Petersburg, Dmitri Shostakovich's satirical opera The Nose received its premier in 1930. Shostakovich was born in St Petersburg.

Shostakovich was only 20 when he began writing The Nose, his operatic debut. What attracted Shostakovich to ''The Nose'' was the story's peculiar combination of tragedy and comedy and its satirical, even grotesque, style. Georgy Ionin, Alexander Preis, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Yevgeny Zamyatin Librettist. It is based on a short story by Nikolai Gogol and tells of Major Kovalyov, a low-ranking government official in imperial St. Petersburg, who wakes up one morning to discover that his nose has left his face. His stage works include the operas Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, The Gamblers and The Nose, and the ballet The Bolt. Which means Barrie Kosky's production of Dmitri Shostakovich's absurdist opera, The Nose, which features a troupe of nine, 1.5-metre tap-dancing noses should be a riot from start to finish. Set in St Petersburg, Dmitri Shostakovich's satirical opera The Nose received its premier in 1930. Shostakovich: The Nose. This opera as one example features an all percussion interlude. Buy DVD Video online. Composers were asking musical questions and venturing into places that only the West had gone up until this point. Shostakovich, The Nose is an iconoclastic and unusual work. Composers were asking musical questions and venturing into places that only the West had gone up until this point. First performance at Los Angeles, LA Phil on 2 December 2011 ; Nos - 3 acts - Russian .

The Nose was written in the late 1920's in the Soviet Union by Shostakovich when there was a very liberal policy towards music. Directed by Gary Halvorson. What attracted Shostakovich to ''The Nose'' was the story's peculiar combination of tragedy and comedy and its satirical, even grotesque, style. The Nose was premiered in 1930 and immediately withdrawn; it reappeared in Russia 34 years later. In 1835 and 1836, Nikolai Gogol wrote a story called The Nose, about a man who wakes up one morning to find that his nose has gone missing in the night. In this recording it is very well done. Based on a short story by Nikolai Gogol, its absurdist plot revolves around the exploits of a pompous government official and his nose. VAI: DVDVAI4517. Shostakovich The Nose, Op.15 – Opera in three acts and ten scenes to a libretto by the composer, with Evgeny Zamyatin, Georgy Ionin, and Alexander Preis, based on the short story by Gogol [sung in Russian with English subtitles projected onto the set, and MET titles in English, German and Spanish] The Nose was written in the late 1920's in the Soviet Union by Shostakovich when there was a very liberal policy towards music. Shostakovich was to do this sort of thing even better in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in 1934, but The Nose, even given a certain sameness to its outlandishness in its second half, is spectacular enough. Based on a short story by Nikolai Gogol, its absurdist plot revolves around the exploits of a pompous government official and his nose. This opera as one example features an all percussion interlude. Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich (1906–75) was one of the most significant musical figures of the 20th century, acclaimed for his work across a wide range of genres.

After a visit to the barber, the nose …