Opera

Dmitri Shostakóvich

The nose

13 Mar, 23 - 30 Mar, 23

Nos

Musical Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth | Stage Director: Barrie Kosky | Principal Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real

13 Mar 23

Premiere

30 Mar 23

Last performance

7

Shows

With a cast of 89 roles - spread among a no less gigantic of 33 singers – and a rhythmical action which is nearly cinematographic, The Nose is a huge challenge for any opera house because of its logistic complexities and an exhilarating “nightmare” for its Stage Director. Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol and premiered in Leningrad in 1930, the work was put out of circulation due to the attacks of the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians. The opera was not seen on stage again until 1974, just a year before the composer’s death. The sarcasm -  bordering on  Theatre of the Absurd – of its libretto and  the “ music without musical structure” score,  influenced  by the biomechanics of Meyerhold, sustain a spectacle which is as acid in content as it is wildly modern musically. 

The debut in the Teatro Real of this cult opera arrives with the acclaimed and irreverent production of Australian Barrie Kosky -  who staged the most recent Magic Flute at this theatre -,  who has been a fan of this work since his student years. The staging communicates the grotesque mishaps of a grey and pompously bureaucrat who is the lead character.


Opera in three acts

Music by Dmitri Shostakóvich (1906-1975)

Libretto by Dmitri Shostakóvich, Yevgueni Zamiatin, Gueorgui Ionin and Aleksandr Preis, based on the homonymous by Nikolái Gógol

Premiere at the  Maly Óperny Theater of Lenningrad, 18 January 1930

Premiere at the Teatro Real

New production of the Teatro Real, in collaboration with the Royal Opera House, Komische Oper Berlin and Opera Australia


Artistic team

Musical Conductor | Mark Wigglesworth 

Stage Director | Barrie Kosky 

Stage and Lighting Designer | Klaus Grünberg

Costume Designer | Buki Shiff 

Choreographer | Otto Pichler 

Dramaturg | Ulrich Lenz 

Chorus Director | Andrés Máspero 


Cast 

Platón Kuzmitch Kavalyov | Martin Winkler 

Iván Yákovlevich (barber) / Newspapper office manager / Doctor  | Alexander Teliga

Praskovaia Osipovna (Iván Yákovlevich's wife) / Seller  | Ania Jeruc

Police inspector / Enunch | Andrey Popov

The Nose / Yarishkin / Eunuch | Dmitry Ivanchey

Iván (Kovaliov's assistant) / Deputy Chief of Police / Gentleman / Student / Enunch  | Vasily Efimov

The old countess | Agnes Zwierko

Podtóchina's daughter / Lady at the Cathedral / Travel Agent / Parasite | Iwona Sobotka

Pelageya Grigorievna Podtóchina / Parasite | Margarita Nekrasova

Employee / Watchman / Servant / Policeman / Gentleman / Acquaintance of Kovalyov | Simon Wilding

Footman/ Iván Ivánovich / Student | Milan Perišić

Pyotr Fyodorovich / Honourable Colonel / Student | David Alegret

Employee / Policeman / Gentleman / Son of the respectable lady / Acquaintance of Kovalyov | Gerard Farreras

Employee / Policeman / Speculator / Son of the respectable lady | Ihor Voievodin

Employee / Policeman / Gentleman / Student | Isaac Galán

Employee / Policeman | Luis López Navarro

Policeman / Gentleman / Dandy / Enunch  / Acquaintance of Kovalyov | José Manuel Montero

Employee / Father / Dandy | David Sánchez

Employee / Student | Cristian Díaz

Policeman / Gentleman / Student | Juan Noval-Moro

Policeman / Gentleman / Student | Roger Padullés

Policeman / Old man / Student | Estudiante Josep Fadó

Son / Policeman / Newcomer | David Villegas

Son /  Newcomer | Íñigo Martín

Employee | Néstor Pindado

Mother | Cristina Herreras

Taxi driver | Ígor Tsenkman

Driver | Claudio Malgesini

Solo tenor in the cathedral | Alexander González

Balalaika | James Ellis

Host | Anne Igartiburu

Principal Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real

 

La nariz, de Dmitri Shostakóvich

Programa de mano

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Releases

Protective Friend

12 December

2022

Supporter and Benefactor Friend

13 December

2022

Patron friends

14 December

2022

Subscribers friend

15 December

2022

Tickets on sale

20 December

2022

Performances

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13 March 2023

19:30

Main Auditorium

Subscription tickets E

15 March 2023

19:30

Main Auditorium

Subscription tickets A

17 March 2023

19:30

Main Auditorium

Subscription tickets D

19 March 2023

18:00

Main Auditorium

Subscription tickets G

27 March 2023

19:30

Main Auditorium

Subscription tickets B

29 March 2023

19:30

Main Auditorium

Subscription tickets H

30 March 2023

19:30

Main Auditorium

Subscription tickets Y

Cultural activities

Enfoques

What's OnGayarre Hall

Ponemos el foco sobre la producción de La Nariz con algunos de sus protagonistas. 

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March

2023

20:15

Actividades pedagógicas y conciertos

What's OnBiblioteca Musical Victor Espinos (Conde Duque)

Celebrando a Shostakóvich. Ciclo de actividades en colaboración con la Escuela  Municipal de Música y Danza María Dolores Pradera.

•    Shostakóvich y el cine
•    Shostakóvich y el jazz
•    Shostakóvich y la danza

Marzo

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Coloquio

What's OnCasa de América

Coloquio sobre la relación entre música, ópera y poder

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Encuentro

What's OnResidencia de Estudiantes

Encuentro | Marzo

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Shostakovich y la censura soviética

What's OnFundación Juan March

Shostakovich y la censura soviética
Fundación Juan March
Ciclo de conciertos
15, 22 y 29 de marzo de 2023

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