Movie

The Metropolitan Opera: The Nose

2013 2h 7m Released

Music

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.

Cast

Paulo Szot Kovalyov A Andrey Popov Police Inspector A Alexander Lewis The Nose V Vladimir Ognovenko Ivan Yakovlevich / Khosrev C Claudia Waite Praskovya Osipovna / A Pre James Courtney The Newspaper Clerk