THE NOSE A THOUGHT

The Met continues it's successful policy of being new and different with the American premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's opera THE NOSE.
Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol and composed in 1928,it deals with a man who wakes up one morning, finds his nose missing and his attempt to find it.
Working from Shostakovich's facinating, atonal , and well orchestrated score, director William Kentridge has devised a smashing production mixing live actors with stunning video effects and coming up with a concept so stunning that the audience I saw it with gave it an ovation at the end that seldom greets an unorthodox work like this.
To be sure, this will not be to everyone's taste, and is sure to have some people wondering what the Met is coming to, but to those willing to take a chance on a new, nontraditional work; THE NOSE provides a facinating and rewarding evening at the opera.
At THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE LINCOLN CENTER N.Y.C.