Information on production

Premiere

Nov 20, 2015

Production type

• Opera

Performance duration

2 h 15 min

Number of intervals

1

Title

The Nose

Production team

• Libretto: Dmitri Shostakovitsh
• Libretto: Alexander Preis
• Libretto: Georgy Ionin
• Libretto: J.I. Samjatin
• Set designer: Ferdinand Wögerbauer
• Costume designer: Anna Maria Heinreich
• Lighting design: Joachim Barth
• Choreographer: Lia Tsolaki
• Director: Peter Stein

Dramatis personae

• Kovalev
• Yakovlevich
• District Constable
• Ivan
• The Nose
• Podtochina
• Podtochina’s daughter
• Old lady
• Praskovya Osipovna
• Newspaper office clerk
• Doctor / Porter / Gentleman / Acquaintance of Kovalev
• Bagel seller
• Mother / Distinguished lady
• Police Chief’s gatekeeper / Police / Gentleman
• Policeman / Gentleman / Acquaintance of Kovalev
• Policeman / Gentleman
• Policeman / Old man
• Son / Yaryzhkin
• Petr Fyodorovich / Decorated Colonel
• Porter / Policeman / Gentleman / acquaintance of Kovalev
• Porter / Policeman
• Speculator
• Porter / Policeman
• Porter / Policeman / Gentleman
• Porter / Father
• Porter / Coachman / Gentleman / Guard
• Porter / Son
• Groom / Ivan Ivanovich
• Countess’s servant / Policeman
• Servant / Police
• Gentleman
• Soprano soloist
• Hozrev-Mirza
• Accompanying gentleman
• Accompanying lady
• Acquaintance / Passenger

Additional information

Libretto Nikolai Gogolin kertomuksen mukaan.
Zürichin oopperan produktio.