Rumschnüffeln unerwünscht: Die Nase an der Bayerischen Staatsoper

By Norman Schwarze, 29 October 2021

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“das Riechorgan wird zum Privileg und damit zum Sinnbild für die Absurdität von Privilegien”

Reviewed at Nationaltheater, Munich on 27 October 2021

Shostakovich, The Nose

Bavarian State Opera

Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor

Kirill Serebrennikov, Director, Set Designer, Costume Designer, Video

Michael Bauer, Lighting Designer

Evgeny Kulagin, Director

Tatyana Dolmatovskaya, Costume Designer

Boris Pinkhasovich, Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov

Sergei Leiferkus, Ivan Yakovlevich

Laura Aikin, Praskovya Osipovna, A mother

Sergei Skorokhodov, Ivan, Kovalyov's valet

Andrei Popov, Police Inspector

Anton Rositskiy, Nos

Eliza Boom, A Bread-Seller

Mirjam Mesak, Mme Podtochina's daughter

Alexandra Durseneva, Pelageya Grigorievna Podtochina

Doris Soffel, The Old Countess

Tansel Akzeybek, First son, Yaryzhkin

Theodore Platt, First son

Ulrich Reß, Pyotr Fyodorovich

Gennady Bezzubenkov, A father, A Doctor

Sean Michael Plumb, A Countess' servant, Ivan Ivanovich

Bayerischer Staatsopernchor

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Norman Schwarze

Norman ist Münchner, absoluter Reisefanatiker, Blogger und Opernliebhaber seit frühester Kindheit. Besonders begeistert er sich für progressive Inszenierungen und Stücke des 21. Jahrhunderts. Nach seinem Studium der Allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaften orientierte er sich neu und arbeitet nun als Produktmanager im Börsenumfeld. Das ist sein Blog: www.annees-de-pelerinage.com

Rumschnüffeln unerwünscht: Schostakowitschs Die Nase an der Bayerischen Staatsoper