Three critics for The New York Times discuss the music, the art and the literary threads of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of the Shostakovich opera “The Nose.”
.In the Met Opera’s newest production, “The Nose, ” a sniffer goes off on adventures without the face or the body it once belonged to.No respectable newspaper would publish an article about a missing nose. At least, that’s what Major…
OBITUARY: Philip Langridge. Tenor
William Kentridge’s The Nose teems with text. The famed visual artist’s production of Shostakovich’s early masterpiece—about a government functionary who one day awakes to find his nose inexplicably vanished—marks the first time the work has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/2747beac-2b9c-11df-a5c7-00144feabdc0.html
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/regarding-the-nose-what-did-the-art-critic-think-of-the-opera/
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/regarding-the-nose-what-did-the-art-critic-think-of-the-opera/
The global credit crunch, with its painful exposure of the moral and literal bankruptcy of our own age, provides the perfect backdrop for this new production of Prokofiev’s The Gambler, the first ever staging of this opera at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Miriam Gilbert, professor of English in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will present an introductory talk on Ambroise Thomas’ “Hamlet” at 5:30 p.m. today in Room 2520D on the second floor of the University Capitol Centre on the University of Iowa campus.
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2010/03/08/music-dark-moving-la-boheme-minnesota-opera
