On Dec. 8, 2023, the highly anticipated opera The Nose, composed by Dimitri Shostakovich in 1928, made its long-awaited Chicago debut at the prestigious Harris Theatre. Based on Nikolai Gogol’s 1836 ...
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“The Nose” wasn’t planned as Lidiya Yankovskaya’s swan song from Chicago Opera Theater, the company she’s led as music director since 2017. But Dmitri Shostakovich’s absurdist political satire, ...
Of all Shostakovich’s compositions, The Nose is surely the closest he came to committing outright musical rebellion. In choosing to adapt Nikolay Gogol’s tale for the stage he took a piece of satire ...
The Opera Group’s production of Shostakovich’s The Nose at the Linbury Studio, Covent Garden is a worthy alternative to the big Russian companies currently taking London by storm. With the Bolshoi in ...
As part of the Metropolitan Opera's "Live in HD" series, William Kentridge's production of Shostakovich's opera about a beleaguered Russian official and his satirical misadventures in search of his ...
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