"Why would anyone write an opera about a nose?" asked the Presenter (Antoinette Halloran) towards the conclusion of the performance. Well, Dmitri Shostakovich did. He wrote an opera called The Nose in 1927, when he was only 20, in response to calls for the newly nationalised Soviet opera houses to update their repertoires with contemporary, […]
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 07:30PM on February 25, 2018