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Absurd enough to work: The Nose at the Met

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Reviewed at Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City on 28 September 2013
Shostakovich, The Nose
Metropolitan Opera
Valery Gergiev, Conductor
William Kentridge, Director
Paulo Szot, Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov
Andrei Popov, Tenor
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