The Nose

With his debut opera, the 21-year-old Shostakovich makes a caustic criticism of post-Tsarist Russia, which has been tormented by a world war, the bloodiest civil war and increasing state terror. The image of a brutal society full of physically and mentally disfigured cowboys and violent criminals is captured musically in the grotesque alternation of various stylistic levels: circus music and Russian Orthodox church music, gallop, polka, marches and fugues are cut against each other in a cinematic drastic manner. Fear and violence lurk behind the biting joke.

Vladimir Jurowski, the new general music director of the Bavarian State Opera, and Kirill Serebrennikov, Russian theater, opera, ballet, film and television director, are working on the new production of The Nose together for the first time. Kiril Serebrennikov is responsible for the direction as well as the stage, video and costumes and is supported by several close collaborators. Kirill Serebrennikov was born in Rostov-on-Don and completed his physics studies here in 1992. During his studies, he began his self-taught work as a theater, opera, film and television director and costume designer. Salome at the Stuttgart Opera and Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Komische Oper Berlin were the first highly acclaimed works that Serebrennikov was able to present to an audience outside of Russia. In March 2020 he made his debut with his first play in Germany, where he staged his adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decamerone at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. In 2021, his new production of Parsifal premiered at the Vienna State Opera. Serebrennikov was honored for his filmmaking at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Other films were shown at the film festivals in Rome, Locarno and Venice and were nominated for the Golden Lion and the Grand Prix of Kinotavr in Sochi. Serebrennikov has been the artistic director of the Gogol Center in Moscow since 2012.

Program and cast

Duration approx. 2 hours 10 minutes

Conductor Vladimir Jurowski

Production: Kirill Serebrennikov

Artistic Consultant: Evgeny Kulagin

Set Design: Olga Pavluk

Costume Design: Tatyana Dolmatovskaya

Masks: Shalva Nikvashvili

Lighting: Michael Bauer

Video: Alan Mandelshtam, Alexey Fokin

Musical Preparation: Daniil Orlov

Choruses: Christoph Heil

Dramaturgy: Katja Leclerc

Platon Kusmič Kovaljov: Boris Pinkhasovich
Ivan Jakovlevič: Sergei Leiferkus
Praskovja Osipovna: Laura Aikin
Reviervorsteher der Polizei: Andrey Popov
Ivan: Sergey Skorokhodov
Die Nase: Anton Rositskii
Lakai der Gräfin: Stanislav Kuflyuk
Beamter der Annoncenredaktion: Alexei Botnarciuc
1. Hausknecht: Martin Snell
2. Hausknecht: Piotr Micinski
3. Hausknecht: Milan Siljanov
4. Hausknecht: Bálint Szabó
5. Hausknecht: Andrew Hamilton
6. Hausknecht: Vitor Bispo
7. Hausknecht: Paweł Horodyski
8. Hausknecht: Roman Chabaranok
1. Polizist: Roman Chabaranok
2. Polizist: Tansel Akzeybek
3. Polizist: Piotr Micinski
4. Polizist: Milan Siljanov
5. Polizist: Alexander Fedorov
6. Polizist: Paweł Horodyski
7. Polizist: Aleksey Kursanov
8. Polizist: Granit Musliu
9. Polizist: Vasily Efimov
10. Polizist: Martin Snell
Vater: Alexander Teliga
Mutter: Laura Aikin
1. Sohn: Sergey Skorokhodov
2. Sohn: Vitor Bispo
Pjotr Fjodorovič: Alexander Fedin
Ivan Ivanovič: Stanislav Kuflyuk
Alte ehrwürdige Dame: Doris Soffel
Händlerin: Louise Foor
Arzt: Alexander Teliga
Jarischkin, ein Freund des Kovaljov: Tansel Akzeybek
Podtočina Pelageja Grigorjevna: Alexandra Durseneva
Ihre Tochter: Mirjam Mesak
1. Herr: Tansel Akzeybek
2. Herr: Alexander Fedorov
3. Herr: Granit Musliu
4. Herr: Martin Snell
5. Herr: Roman Chabaranok
6. Herr: Paweł Horodyski
7. Herr: Vasily Efimov
Ein alter Mann: Anton Rositskii
1. Neuankömmling: Anton Rositskii
2. Neuankömmling: Alexander Teliga
Spekulant: Milan Siljanov
Verdienter Oberst: Anton Rositskii
1. Geck: Alexander Fedorov
2. Geck: Piotr Micinski
1. Student: Tansel Akzeybek
2. Student: Granit Musliu
3. Student: Vitor Bispo
4. Student: Bálint Szabó
5. Student: Vasily Efimov
6. Student: Aleksey Kursanov
7. Student: Alexander Fedin
8. Student: Stanislav Kuflyuk
1. Bekannter Kovaljovs: Martin Snell
Ein anderer Bekannter Kovaljovs: Alexander Fedin
3. Bekannter Kovaljovs: Piotr Micinski
Wächter: Bálint Szabó
Heiduck: Bálint Szabó
Pförtner des Polizeichefs: Anton Rositskii
Droschkenkutscher: Bálint Szabó
Kutscher: Bálint Szabó
Sopransolo (Kasaner Kathedrale): Mirjam Mesak
Tenorsolo (Kasaner Kathedrale): Sergey Skorokhodov

Eunuchen: Matthias Dähling, Changhoun Eo, Brennan Hall, Kiuk Kim, Aleksandar Timotic

Bayerisches Staatsorchester