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THE NOSE or Conspiracy of Mavericks Animated Movie Russia 2020
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: The Nose or Conspiracy of Mavericks
- Composer: The Nose aka Nos
- Libretto: Shostokovich Dmitri
- Venue & Opera Company: Dmitri Shostakovich, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Alexander Preys, Yury Arabov, Andrey Khrzhanovsky
- Recorded: 2020
- Type: Movie
- Singers:
- Conductor:
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: Andrey Khrzhanovsky
- Stage Designer: Igor Skidan-Bosin
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Date Published: 2020
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
At an airport tarmac, an Aeroflot lifts off. Onboard are major proponents of Russian theater and cinema. Each individual watches a different classic at the in-flight entertainment TV. As the camera glides past each individual, different epochs are melded into a single meta narrative. Nikolai Gogol arrives at St. Petersburg, circa 1828. He begins writing The Nose. Then in the 1920s, Dimitri Shostakovich is working on an adaptation of Gogol’s novella. He meets Vsevolod Meyerhold. The prospect of a collaboration begins to take shape.
Major Kovalev introduces himself. He is looking for the Nose that he lost. The Nose takes a life of its own. It is seen wearing glasses and travels in a luxury car. An opera at the Bolshoi theatre playing a Bulgakov piece is attended by Stalinist accomplices including official Zhdanov. The entourage attended because of a letter sent by the playwright himself, complaining of a lack of the patronage of the arts. However, cacophony starts a day later as Muddle Instead of Music editorial is written in the Pravda newspaper that intends to target Meyerhold and Shostakovich. Part 3 starts with the story of the Vsevolod Meyerhold and in general the story of many writers, scientists, and artists under an authoritarian government.