The Nose
Dmitri D. Shostakovich
Opera in three acts based on the story of the same name by Nikolai W. Gogol [1930]
Libretto by Dimitri D. Shostakovich, Yevgeny I. Zamyatin, Georgy D. Ionin and Aleksandr G. Price
German text by Ulrich Lenz
Co-production with The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opera Australia and TeatroReal, Madrid
German
1 h 50 min, no break
In a mix of nightmare and zany, over-the-top satire, director Barrie Kosky stages tap-dancing noses, moving rickshaw tables and cartoonishly hyperbolic protagonists with gaudy costumes, somewhere between folklore and historicism, in a cool space that feels claustrophobic, despite its size. The surrealistic story of the small-minded upstart Platon Kuzmich Kovalev and his fear of loss and paranoia becomes an absurd, revue-like kaleidoscope of vanities, a disturbing mixture of Wozzeck and Alice in Wonderland, with its very own »senseless« logic.
Crew
Musical direction Ainārs Rubiķis
Staging Barrie Kosky
Choreographer Otto Pichler
Stage design / Lighting Klaus Grünberg
Co-Stagedesign Anne Kuhn
Costume designer Buki Shiff
Dramaturgy Ulrich Lenz
Chorus David Cavelius
Cast
Platon Kusmitsch Kowaljow Günter Papendell
Ivan Yakovlevich / Newspaper office clerk / Doctor Jens Larsen
Praskovya Osipovna / Seller / TV-Host Madeleine Shaw
Chief of Police / Eunuche James Kryshak
Angry man in the cathedral / Eunuche / Yaryshkin Adrian Kramer
Iwan, servent of Kowaljow / District Constable a. o. Ivan Turšić
The old Countess Caren van Oijen
Pelagea Grigorjewna Podtotschina a. o. Ursula Hesse von den Steinen
Grieving woman in the cathedral / Podtochina’s daughter a. o. Mirka Wagner
Pjotr Fjodorowitsch / Colonel / 7th Student a. o. Christoph Späth
Servant of the old Countess / Iwan Iwanowitsch / 8th Student Tom Erik Lie
1. Angestellter / 1. Polizist / 4. Herr / 1. Bekannter Kowaljows Simon Wilding
2. Angestellter / 3. Polizist / 5. Herr / 3. Bekannter Kowaljows Andrew Nolen
3. Angestellter / 4. Polizist / Spekulant / 2. Zuschauer Carsten Sabrowski
4. Angestellter / 6. Polizist / 6. Herr / 3. Student Christian Tschelebiew
5. Angestellter / 10. Polizist / 2. Neuankömmling Changdai Park
Vater / 2. Dandy Hans-Martin Nau
6. Angestellter N.N.
Wachmann / 7. Angestellter / Kutscher Dominic Barberi
8. Angestellter / 2. Kind / 4. Student Karsten Küsters
5. Polizist / 2. Herr / 1. Dandy / 2. Bekannter Kowaljows u.a. Johannes Dunz
7. Polizist / 3. Herr / 2. Student N.N.
8. Polizist / 7. Herr / 5. Student Jan Proporowitz
9. Polizist / Ein alter Mann / 6. Student Timothy Oliver
1. Kind / 1. Sohn / 1. Neuankömmling David Zimmer
Es spielt das Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin.