The Nose
Sun, 15. Mar 2026, 18:00

Director Barrie Kosky plunges us into a nightmarish, wildly exaggerated satire, with marching noses, rolling rickshaw tables, and caricatured protagonists in garish costumes that straddle folklore and historicism, all unfolding within a cold, bleak setting that feels claustrophobic despite its size. This surrealist story of the insecure and paranoid upstart Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov is transformed into a absurd, kaleidoscopic revue of the vanities, an unsettling collision of Wozzeck and Alice in Wonderland with its own ‘irrational’ logic.

Werkinfo:
Dmitri D. ShostakovichOpera in three acts, based on the story of the same name by Nikolai W. Gogol [1930]

Libretto by Dmitri D. Shostakovich, Yevgeny I. Zamyatin, Georgy D. Ionin, and Alexander G. Preis

German text version by Ulrich Lenz

Preisinformation:
13 - 96 €