Overview
Barrie Kosky makes his Royal Opera debut with a new production of Shostakovich’s surrealist satire, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher and translated by David Pountney.
Cast
- Martin Winkler as Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov
- Alexander Lewis as The Nose
- John Tomlinson as Ivan Yakovlevich, the barber / Iaryzhkin, a friend of Kovalyov's
- Rosie Aldridge as Praskovya Ossipovna, barber's wife
- Alexander Kravets as Police Inspector