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.
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Paulo Szot
Kovalyov
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Andrey Popov
Police Inspector
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Alexander Lewis
The Nose
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Vladimir Ognovenko
Ivan Yakovlevich / Khosrev-Mirza
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Claudia Waite
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James Courtney
The Newspaper Clerk
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Tosca
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Sergei Skorokhodov
Ivan, Kovalyov's Servant
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Attila
Verdi Attila
Tatyana Zbirovskaya
An Escorting Lady
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Love Is Strange
Love and the City
Patricia Racette
Self - Host
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Pavel Smelkov
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Gary Halvorson Director · William Kentridge Director Dmitri Shostakovich Writer
United States release October 26, 2013
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
United States · October 26, 2013
Theatrical
United States
February 23, 2014 · TV · PBS - Great Performances at the Met
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