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''The Nose'' ((ロシア語:''Нос''), 'Nos'〔The title in Russian (Нос, "Nos") is the reverse of the Russian word for "dream" (Сон, "Son").〕), is Shostakovich's first opera, a satirical work completed in 1928 based on Nikolai Gogol's story of the same name (1836). ==Style and structure== The opera was written between 1927 and 1928. The libretto is by Shostakovich, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Georgy Ionin, and Alexander Preis. Shostakovich stated it was a satire on the times of Alexander I.〔"The Nose ." Opera in 3 acts after Nikolai Gogol . Opus 15 of Shostakovich. : State Maly Opera Theater, Leningrad, 1930, p. 4〕 The plot concerns a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own. Gogol's original work was expanded by borrowing from some of his other works, including "The Overcoat", "Marriage", "Diary of a Madman", and "Dead Souls" as well as "The Brothers Karamazov" (1881) by Dostoevsky. The latter occurs in Act II, Scene 6 where Kovalev returns home to find Ivan singing. The song is Shostakovich's setting of the words of Part 2, Book 5, Chapter 2 of Karamazov, where the lackey, Smerdiakov sings to his neighbour Mariia Kondratevna. ''An invisible force ties to my beloved. Bless us, O Lord, her and me! Her and me! I'll give up a king's crown, if my beloved is happy. Bless us, O Lord, her and me! Her and me!'' Shostakovich uses a montage of different styles, including folk music, popular song and atonality. The apparent chaos is given structure by formal musical devices such as canons and quartets, a device taken from Alban Berg's ''Wozzeck''. According to the British composer Gerard McBurney writing for Boosey & Hawkes "''The Nose'' is one of the young Shostakovich’s greatest masterpieces, an electrifying tour de force of vocal acrobatics, wild instrumental colours and theatrical absurdity, all shot through with a blistering mixture of laughter and rage... The result, in Shostakovich’s ruthlessly irreverent hands, is like an operatic version of Charlie Chaplin or Monty Python... despite its magnificently absurd subject and virtuosic music, ''The Nose'' is a perfectly practical work and provides a hugely entertaining evening in the theatre."〔(Boosey & Hawkes, Repertoire note )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Nose (opera)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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