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Metropolitan Opera: The Nose Cast & Creative

William Kentridge stormed the Met with his inventive production of Shostakovich’s opera, which dazzled opera and art lovers alike in its inaugural run in 2010. Now Paulo Szot reprises his acclaimed performance of a bureaucrat, whose satirical misadventures in search of his missing nose are based on Gogol’s comic story. Valery Gergiev conducts.

This show is closed.

Performances ended on Oct. 26, 2013.

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About Metropolitan Opera: The Nose

William Kentridge stormed the Met with his inventive production of Shostakovich’s opera, which dazzled opera and art lovers alike in its inaugural run in 2010. Now Paulo Szot reprises his acclaimed performance of a bureaucrat, whose satirical misadventures in search of his missing nose are based on Gogol’s comic story. Valery Gergiev conducts.

Cast

Creative

Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Libretto
Yvegeny Zamyatin/Georgy Ionin/ Alexander Preys/Dmitri Shostakovich
Director
William Kentridge
Set Designer
William Kentridge / Sabine Theunissen
Costume Designer
Greta Goiris
Lighting Designer
Urs Schönebaum
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