Organization

Singer

Tenor

Andrei Popov

District Inspector

Alexander Lewis

The Nose

Baritone

Paulo Szot

Kovaliov

Bass-baritone

Vladimir Ognovenko

Ivan Iakolevitch

Mezzo-soprano

Claudia Waite

Osipovna

Soprano

A Pretzel Vendor

Bass

James Courtney

The Newspaper officer

Maria Gavrilova

A Mother

Gennady Bezzubenkov

Doctor

Adam Klein

Iaryzhkin

Barbara Dever

Pelageya Podtotschina

Ying Fang

Her Daughter

Kathryn Day

Old Lady

Conductor

Valery Gergiev

Stage director

William Kentridge

Set designer

Sabine Theunissen

Costume designer

Greta Goiris

Lighting designer

Urs Schönebaum

Soprano Solo

Pavel Smelkov

Brian Kontes

Ten policemen

Un Commis

Un Monsieur

Le Laquais de la comtesse

1st Acquaintance of Kovalyov

The Metropolitan Opera

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Russian

The Nose, op. 15

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

Acclaimed artist William Kentridge directed and designed this visually dazzling Met premiere production of Shostakovich’s satirical opera, adapted from the classic short story by Nikolai Gogol. Baritone Paulo Szot leads the cast as Kovalyov, the hapless bureaucrat whose nose has mysteriously gone missing. Alexander Lewis and Andrey Popov co-star, and Pavel Smelkov conducts.

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