WASHINGTON, October 21 (RIA Novosti) – Fans of dissonant, absurdist 1920s Soviet opera are in for a treat Saturday, when New York’s Metropolitan Opera is set to broadcast a live performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s “The Nose” to cinemas around the world, according to the opera company’s website.
The company’s production of the opera, which adapts Nikolai Gogol’s tale of a civil servant who wakes up one morning to find that his nose has gone missing, debuted in 2010 under the baton of Russian conductor Valery Gergiev.
Designed and directed by renowned South African artist William Kentridge, this version also features animation, superimposed graphics, collage and archival images and video.
The broadcast is set to begin at 12:55 p.m. EST on Saturday.
