Organization

Tenor (+1)

Ludovit Ludha

The Nose

Tenor (+2)

Jürgen Müller

Iaryzhkin

Tenor (+3)

Aaron Pegram

Der liebe Gott

Stage director

Stage director (+1)

Peter Konwitschny

Conductor

Conductor (+2)

Petr Popelka

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+3)

Fabio Antoci

Costume designer

Set designer (+2)

Helmut Brade

Set designer

Dramaturge

Dramaturge (+4)

Kai Weßler

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+1)

André Kellinghaus

Bass (+3)

Martin-Jan Nijhof

Doctor

Baritone (+3)

Bo Skovhus

Kovaliov

Tenor (+8)

Timothy Oliver

Ivan

Bass-baritone (+2)

Jukka Rasilainen

Ivan Iakolevitch

Soprano (+1)

Roxana Incontrera

Osipovna

Tilmann Rönnebeck

The Newspaper officer

Baritone (+5)

Matthias Henneberg

Footman

Silent (+1)

David Krämer

Horzev-mirza

Gerald Hupach

Oberst

James Kryshak

Ein Geheimagent

Katerina von Bennigsen

Eine Geheimagentin

Soprano (+2)

Sabine Brohm

A Mother

Semperoper Dresden

Orchestra

Staatskapelle Dresden

Semper Zwei

Chorus

Symphony Chorus Dresden

Alice Rossi

Her Daughter

»The Nose« is the stroke of genius of the just 22-year-old Dmitri Shostakovich based on the novel of the same name by Nikolai Gogol. While Gogol's novella is a satire on tsarist officials, the opera, which premiered in 1930, brings to the stage an entire society in which an opportunistic official falls into the clutches of bureaucracy, a nose becomes a media sensation, and the police closely monitor its citizens. With dance music, balaleika sounds, Russian church music and the first pure percussion piece in music history, »The Nose« is no less grotesque than the strange occurrences it tells: the nose of college assessor Kovalev suddenly disappeared for no reason. Kovalyov panics: What is a person without his nose? The vain official turns to the police,

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