Five Performances:
Wednesday, July, 28, 8:00 pm (preview)
Friday, July 30, 8:00 pm (premiere)
Sunday, August 1, 2:00 pm
Friday, August 6, 8:00 pm
Saturday, August 7, 8:00 pm

(in Russian with English surtitles)

East Coast professional premiere of an opera in three acts by Dmitrii Shostakovich Based on the story by Nikolai Gogol

The American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Directed by Francesca Zambello
Rafael Viñoly, scenic designer
Georgi Alexi-Meskhishvili, costume designer
Mark McCullough, lighting designer

The hilarious, rarely performed opera written by the very young Shostakovich, The Nose follows Gogol’s famous story of a minor civil servant who awakes one morning to find not only that his nose has fled his face, but that it is parading around town in the uniform of an official more important than himself.

Directed by Francesca Zambello, one of the most original and prolific stage directors working in opera today. Sets designed by renowned architect Rafael Viñoly, continuing Bard’s tradition—established by Frank Gehry, whose design of Janáček’s Osud thrilled SummerScape’s 2003 audience—of encouraging artist-architects to focus their flair for the dramatic onto the opera stage.

Leon Botstein conducts the American Symphony Orchestra, “freshly resplendent in its new home” (New York Times).

Tickets: $65, $50, $35

All seats reserved

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