Director Barrie Kosky plunges us into a nightmarish, wildly exaggerated satire, with marching noses, rolling rickshaw tables, and caricatured protagonists in garish costumes that straddle folklore and historicism, all unfolding within a cold, bleak setting that feels claustrophobic despite its size. This surrealist story of the insecure and paranoid upstart Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov is transformed into a absurd, kaleidoscopic revue of the vanities, an unsettling collision of Wozzeck and Alice in Wonderland with its own ‘irrational’ logic.

Jan Proporowitz

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Mar 15 - Apr 6, 2026

The Nose · Komische Oper Berlin

Future and recently performed repertoire

8. Policeman / 7. Man / 5. Student in The Nose by Shostakovich

Komische Oper Berlin

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