The Nose
Opera in three acts and an epilogue
Libretto
Jewgeni Samjatin, Georgi Jonin, Arkadi Preiss, Dmitri Schostakowitsch (after Nikolai Gogol)
Premiere
16 June 1929, Leningrad (concert)
Cast
KOVALYOV (baritone)
YAKOVLEVICH (bass-baritone)
POLICE INSPECTOR (very high tenor)
IVAN (tenor)
NOSE (tenor)
MADAME PODTOCHINA (mezzo-soprano)
HER DAUGHTER (soprano)
OLD COUNTESS (contralto)
PRASKOVYA OSSIPOVNA (soprano)
ADVERTISING EMPLOYEE (bass-baritone)
CHORUS
worshippers, poor matrons, travellers, passers-by, onlookers, eunuchs, policemen
Place
St Petersburg
Time
1850