The Nose
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 5, 2010
Closed Mar 25, 2010
Opened Mar 5, 2010
Closed Mar 25, 2010
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Running Time:
1hr. 44min.
1hr. 44min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Artist William Kentridge defies genres with Shostakovich's adaptation of Gogol's story. "The opera is about the terrors of hierarchy," Kentridge says. "There's a mixture of anarchy and the absurd that interests me. I love in this opera the sense that anything is possible." The new production is conducted by definitive Shostakovich interpreter Valery Gergiev. Acclaimed baritone Paulo Szot, who won a Tony Award® for South Pacific, makes his Met debut as the man who wakes up to discover that his nose has disappeared.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
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RE:The Nose
We see at least 10 operas at the Met each season. We are subscribers to the NY Metropolitan Opera, and chose to get these tickets as extras, in addition to our subscription of 8 operas. We enjoyed this opera very much because it was something quite different, from what we are accustomed to seeing, on the Met stage, using a whole new vocabulary of multimedia to accompany the story. We got these extra tickets because we knew that the voice of Paul Szot South Pacific is beautiful. Of course, the music in "Nose" is in no way like, South Pacific; however, Szot does not disappoint.........his voice and his acting are superb and the whole show is worth seeing. The subject matter and plot are deadly serious......a denouncment of Stalins era of communism, lightened by the comic creations attached to the "Nose."
Do not expect a typical Bway musical.
Reviewed by joycehays
on Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
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During Peter Gelb's still-newish tenure at the Met Opera, he's brought a number of worthy productions to the stage -- along with a couple of calamities -- but with the treatment of The Nose, Dmitri Shostakovich's adaptation of the popular Nikolai Gogol short story about a small-time official who wakes up one morning to find his nose has disappeared, he's introduced his first brilliant addition.
Much of the credit belongs to William Kentridge, the South African artist best known for his animated political cartoons, who has not only penned the libretto (with Yevgeny Zamyatin, Georgi Ionin and Alexander Preis), but also executed the dazzling sets (with Sabine Theuissen) and directed the m[...]