Schillertheater: Großer SaalBismarckstraße 110, Berlin, 10625, Germany
Dates/times in Berlin time zone
Sunday 15 March 2026 | 18:00 |
Sunday 22 March 2026 | 18:00 |
Friday 27 March 2026 | 19:00 |
Sunday 29 March 2026 | 19:00 |
Monday 06 April 2026 | 18:00 |
Programme
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975) | The Nose |
Performers
Komische Oper Berlin | ||
James Gaffigan | Conductor | |
Barrie Kosky | Director | |
Klaus Grünberg | Set Designer, Lighting Designer | |
Buki Shiff | Costume Designer | |
Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin | ||
Chorsolisten der Komischen Oper Berlin | ||
David Cavelius | Choirmaster / chorus director | |
Otto Pichler | Choreography | |
Samuli Taskinen | Bass | Security guard / 7th employee / Coachman |
Günter Papendell | Baritone | Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov |
Jens Larsen | Bass | Ivan Yakovlevich, A Doctor |
Ania Jeruc | Soprano | Praskovya Osipovna, A Bread-Seller |
James Kryshak | Tenor | Police Inspector, Eunuch |
Ivan Turšić | Tenor | Ivan, Kovalyov's valet, A gentleman seeing the traveller off, Eunuch |
Tom Erik Lie | Baritone | A Countess' servant, Ivan Ivanovich |
Simon Wilding | Bass | Porters, Policemen |
Andrew Nolen | Bass | Porters, Policemen |
Hans Gröning | Baritone | Porters, Policemen |
Christian Tschelebiew | Bass | Porters, Policemen |
Junoh Lee | Bass-baritone | Porters, Policemen |
Georg Festl | Bass-baritone | Porters, Second son |
Johannes Dunz | Tenor | Policemen, A gentleman seeing the traveller off, Eunuch |
Kangyoon Shine Lee | Tenor | Policemen |
Timothy Oliver | Tenor | Policemen |
Stephanos Tsirakoglou | Bass-baritone | A father, Second son |
Elisabeth Kretschmer | Soprano | A mother |
Ferdinand Keller | Tenor | First son |
Christoph Späth | Tenor | Pyotr Fyodorovich |
Karolina Gumos | Mezzo-soprano | The Old Countess |
Thoma Jaron-Wutz | Tenor | Yaryzhkin, Eunuch |
Ulrike Helzel | Mezzo-soprano | Pelageya Grigorievna Podtochina |
Mirka Wagner | Soprano | Mme Podtochina's daughter |
Director Barrie Kosky plunges us into a nightmarish, wildly exaggerated satire, with marching noses, rolling rickshaw tables, and caricatured protagonists in garish costumes that straddle folklore and historicism, all unfolding within a cold, bleak setting that feels claustrophobic despite its size. This surrealist story of the insecure and paranoid upstart Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov is transformed into a absurd, kaleidoscopic revue of the vanities, an unsettling collision of Wozzeck and Alice in Wonderland with its own ‘irrational’ logic.
Reviews of The Nose directed by Barrie Kosky
Komische Oper Berlin, June 2018
Sydney Opera House: Joan Sutherland Theatre, February 2018
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, October 2016
Teatro Real: Sala Principal, Madrid, March 2023 (Español)

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