"O NARIZ", DE SHOSTAKOVICH

Kentridge nose his history

Mail and Guardian Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:20 PM PSTWilliam Kentridge's interpretation of Shostakovich's 1930 opera, The Nose , scheduled to open at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2010, has been so extensively prefigured in gallery exhibitions, film screenings, public lectures and grapevine accounts of various workshops, it is as if it already exists.