The Nose (opera)

the Nose (in Russian: Нос, Our in transliteration) is an opera in three acts and ten tables of Dmitri Chostakovitch on a booklet of Ievgueni Zamiatine, Georgui Ionine, Alexander Preis and of the type-setter, inspired of the news éponyme of Nicolas Gogol. It was created on June 18th, 1930 with the Théâtre Maly of Leningrad.

The history is that of a civil servant of Saint-Pétersbourg to which its nose distorts company to carry out its own existence. The opera was written between the autumn of 1927 and July 1928. In 1929 he was criticized by the Russian Association of the proletarian musicians for his “formalism” (i.e. in Stalinist language his elitism), and the first criticisms were generally bad. There was not more than sixteen representations, and work was not to be any more played in Soviet Union before 1974, when Gennady Rozhdestvensky and Boris Pokrovsky rehabilitated it.

Today the Nose is recognized like a masterpiece of the futuristic period of the type-setter. He contains an interval between the second and the third table of the first act which is a part for percussions alone, one of very first of the Western music, just after the “dance of cranium” ( Schädeltanz ) of Ogelala (1925) of Erwin Schulhoff, but before Ionizations (1929-1931) of Edgard Varèse.

Discography

the Nose , soloists, choruses and orchestra of the Musical Theater of Room of Moscow, directioon: Guennadi Rojdestvenski, recorded in 1975,2 CD the Song of the Russian World
Music in Prague , CD Praga, containing the Continuation of Orchestra, drawn from the opera Nose , COp. 15A, Czech Philharmonic orchestra, directed by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky in 1973.

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