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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "The Nose" makes a belated Metropolitan Opera premiere on Friday and even before the reviews are in, performances have nearly sold out. The new ...

“The Nose” wasn’t planned as Lidiya Yankovskaya’s swan song from Chicago Opera Theater, the company she’s led as music director since 2017. But Dmitri Shostakovich’s absurdist political satire, ...

When Dmitri Shostakovich began writing The Nose in 1927 he was only 21 years old. The Stalin era was only just beginning, with the purges, famines, and years of war still down the road. There was yet ...

As part of the Metropolitan Opera's "Live in HD" series, William Kentridge's production of Shostakovich's opera about a beleaguered Russian official and his satirical misadventures in search of his ...

IF YOU GO* What: Screening of Metropolitan Opera's "The Nose"by Dmitri Shostakovich* When: 12:55 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26;6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30* Where: East Ridge 18, 5080 South Terrace ...

Last Saturday, the 1891 Fredonia Opera House presented a performance by the company of the Metropolitan Opera House, in New York City, of an opera by Dmitri Shostakovich, based on a short story by ...

Of all Shostakovich’s compositions, The Nose is surely the closest he came to committing outright musical rebellion. In choosing to adapt Nikolay Gogol’s tale for the stage he took a piece of satire ...

Banned for decades in the Soviet Union for its dissonance and bawdiness, the opera returns as La Scala’s season opener amid the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death. By A.J. Goldmann The male ...

Chicago Opera Theater (COT), Chicago's foremost producer of new and reimagined opera, has announced its 50th Anniversary season in 2023/24. Reflecting on the company's first fifty years, the golden ...