In June 1929, The Nose was given a concert performance, against Shostakovich's own wishes: " The Nose loses all meaning if it is seen just as a musical composition. despite its magnificently absurd subject and virtuosic music, The Nose is a perfectly practical work and provides a hugely entertaining evening in the theatre." Performance history The result, in Shostakovich's ruthlessly irreverent hands, is like an operatic version of Charlie Chaplin or Monty Python. The apparent chaos is given structure by formal musical devices such as canons and quartets, a device taken from Alban Berg's Wozzeck.Īccording to the British composer Gerard McBurney writing for Boosey & Hawkes, " The Nose is one of the young Shostakovich’s greatest masterpieces, an electrifying tour de force of vocal acrobatics, wild instrumental colours and theatrical absurdity, all shot through with a blistering mixture of laughter and rage. Shostakovich uses a montage of different styles, including folk music, popular song and atonality. Bless us, O Lord, her and me! Her and me! Bless us, O Lord, her and me! Her and me! I'll give up a king's crown, if my beloved is happy.
The song is Shostakovich's setting of the words of part 2, book 5, chapter 2 of Karamazov, where the lackey, Smerdiakov, sings to his neighbour Mariia Kondratevna.Īn invisible force ties to my beloved. The latter occurs in act 2, scene 6, where Kovalyov returns home to find Ivan singing. Gogol's original work was expanded by borrowing from some of his other works, including " The Overcoat", Marriage, " Diary of a Madman", and Dead Souls as well as The Brothers Karamazov (1881) by Dostoyevsky. The plot concerns a Saint Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own. Shostakovich stated it was a satire on the times of Alexander I. The libretto is by Shostakovich, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Georgy Ionin, and Alexander Preis. 15, (Russian: Нос, romanized: Nos ), is Dmitri Shostakovich's first opera, a satirical work completed in 1928 based on Nikolai Gogol's 1836 story of the same name.
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