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The cult opera, The Nose, will be premièred at the Teatro Real with performances on 13, 15, 17, 19, 27, 29 and 30 March. This production includes the famous and irreverent production by the Australian, Barrie Kosky, who was responsible for the last Magic Flute at the Madrid Theatre.

The show includes a cast consisting of 89 roles, which can be distributed among 33 singers, and the action is practically at a film pace.  This production is a major challenge for any opera theatre due to its logistical complexity for the Stage Manager.

Based on a tale by Nikolái Gógol and premièred in Leningrad in 1930, The Nose was withdrawn prematurely due to the attacks by the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians and did not return to the Soviet stage until 1974, just one year prior to the death of the composer.  The show is as sharp in its content as it is modern on the musical side, whose libretto and music lacks musical structure but has sarcasm and is influenced by Meyerhold’s biomechanics. 

It is now coming to the Teatro Real, in collaboration with the Royal Opera House, the Komische Oper Berlin and the Opera Australia, with Mark Wigglesworth as the musical director and production by the Australian, Barrie Kosky, who will be acting as the stage manager.

Artistic File:

Opera in Three Acts 

• Music by Dmitri Shostakóvich (1906-1975)
• Libretto by Dmitri Shostakóvich, Yevgueni Zamiatin, Gueorgui Ionin and Aleksandr Preis, based on the story of the same name by Nikolái Gógol
• Premièred at the Teatro Maly Óperny in Leningrad on 18 January 1930
• Première at the Teatro Real
• New production by the Teatro Real, in collaboration with the Royal Opera House, the Komische Oper Berlin and the Opera Australia

Artistic Team:

• Musical Director - Mark Wigglesworth 
• Stage Manager - Barrie Kosky 
• Stage and Lighting Design - Klaus Grünberg
• Costume Designer - Buki Shiff 
• Choreographer - Otto Pichler 
• Playwright - Ulrich Lenz 
• Choirmaster - Andrés Máspero 
• Presenter - Anne Igartiburu
• Teatro Real Resident Orchestra and Choir 

Cast:

• Plato Kuzmitch Kavalyov - Martin Winkler 
• Iván Yákovlevich / Head of the newspaper office / Doctor / Horzev-mirza / Taxi driver - Alexander Teliga
• Praskovaya Ossipovna / A bread seller - Ania Jeruc
• Police Inspector / Eunuch - Andrey Popov
• Iván / Police Officer / Sir / Eunuch / Deputy Chief of Police  - Vasily Efimov
• The Nose / Eunuch - Anton Rositskiy 
• Lacayo / Iván Ivánovich / Student - Stephan Astakhov
• Yarishkin / Eunuch / Angry man in the cathedral - Dmitry Ivanchey
• Pelageya Grigorievna Podtóchina / Respectable lady - Margarita Nekrasova 
• Podtóchina’s daughter / Lady in the Cathedral - Iwona Sobotka
• The old Countess - Agnes Zwierko