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Shostakovich's The Nose

31/12/2016

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Shostakovich's The Nose

From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, a performance of Shostakovich's opera The Nose.

From the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, a rare production of Shostakovich's early surreal opera The Nose. Ingo Metzmacher conducts.

Andrew McGregor presents a rare production of Shostakovich's early surreal opera, The Nose, from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Based on Gogol's short story, the plot concerns Russian civil servant Kovalov, who loses his nose and desperately tries to retrieve it as it goes on the rampage around St Petersburg in the uniform of a higher-ranking official. On the way, Kovalov meets a cast of peculiar characters in a work which is a mixture of social satire, comedy and intimate reflection. Martin Winkler sings the hapless Kovalov and John Tomlinson takes on three characters, all of whom make life harder for him. Plus director Barry Kosky talks about his colourful new production and Ingo Metzmacher discusses Shostakovich's wildly inventive score.

Platon Kuzmitch Kovalov ..... Martin Winkler (bass-baritone)
Ivan Iakovlevitch / Clerk / Doctor ..... John Tomlinson (bass)
Ossipovna / Vendor ..... Rosie Aldridge (mezzo-soprano)
District Inspector ..... Alexander Kravets (tenor)
Angry man in the cathedral ..... Alexander Lewis (tenor)
Ivan ..... Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (bass)
Iaryshkin ..... Peter Bronder (tenor)
Old Countess ..... Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
Pelageya Podtotshina ..... Helene Schneiderman (mezzo-soprano)
Podtotshina's daughter ..... Ailish Tynan (soprano)
Ensemble: Daniel Auchincloss, Paul Carey Jones, Alasdair Elliott, Alan Ewing, Hubert Francis, Sion Goronwy, Njabulo Madlala, Charbel Mattar, Samuel Sakker, Michael J. Scott, Nicholas Sharratt, David Shipley, Jeremy White, Simon Wilding, Yuriy Yurchuk
Royal Opera House Chorus
Royal Opera House Orchestra
Ingo Metzmacher (conductor).

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