THE NOSE. Opera in three acts with an epilogue
after a novel by Nikolai Gogol

Council assessor Kovalyov awakes one morning without a nose. This nose is soon found by Kovalyov’s drunken barber Ivan on his bread. The perplexed barber gets rid of the disagreeable finding as quickly as possible by throwing Kovalyov’s nose into the river. In a desperate search for the disappeared nose, the council assessor encounters his olfactory organ – grown to giant proportions and dressed up as a city councilman – in the church, but the nose escapes him in the crowd. Kovalyov is greeted by hilarious laughter in the advertising department of a newspaper in which he tries in vain to place a notice. Meanwhile, at a police station, the police are also looking for the nose. When it hurriedly arrives, attempting to catch a departing coach, chaos and a fight ensue, during which the nose shrinks back to its natural size. The officer hands it over to the relieved Kovalyov. Overjoyed, he wants to place the nose in its customary place, but it proves impossible to fasten it to his face. Then Kovalyov awakes from the torturing nightmare and is relieved to find his nose in its proper place.

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