The Metropolitan Opera: The Nose
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- Runtime
- 127 mins
Acclaimed artist William Kentridge directed and designed this visually dazzling Met premiere production of Shostakovich’s satirical opera, adapted from the classic short story by Nikolai Gogol. Baritone Paulo Szot leads the cast as Kovalyov, the hapless bureaucrat whose nose has mysteriously gone missing. Alexander Lewis and Andrey Popov co-star, and Pavel Smelkov conducts.
Acclaimed artist William Kentridge directed and designed this visually dazzling Met premiere production of Shostakovich’s satirical opera, adapted from the classic short story by Nikolai Gogol. Baritone Paulo Szot leads the cast as Kovalyov, the hapless bureaucrat whose nose has mysteriously gone missing. Alexander Lewis and Andrey Popov co-star, and Pavel Smelkov conducts.
Cast
- Paulo Szot
- Andrey Popov
- Alexander Lewis
- Vladimir Ognovenko
- Claudia Waite
- James Courtney
- Sergei Skorokhodov
- Tatyana Zbirovskaya
- Patricia Racette
- Pavel Smelkov
Director
- William Kentridge
- Gary Halvorson
