On October 26, audiences will be able to watch Dmitry Shostakovich's opera “The Nose,” as staged by the New York Metropolitan Opera with Brazilian baritone Paulo Szot. “The Nose” may seem like the ...

A statue of a giant nose in St Petersburg, inspired by Gogol's story of a man's pursuit of his escaped nose, has also vanished. Police in Russia's second city are hunting the thieves responsible for ...

Satirical and poignant, dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol’s The Diary of a Madman encompasses the detrimental effects of the social upon the psychological through the progression of the ...

The thing about big plans is that they require people to carry them out. The problem of personnel particularly plagued Peter the Great. Convinced by his European advisers that his country was backward ...

Oleg Liptsin has one very simple task to make sure his co-star in "The Nose" will be ready to perform this weekend: make sure its battery is charged. The thing is, Liptsin's sharing the stage with an ...

If creative greatness can be measured by the enduring relevance of a piece to contemporary events, what more powerful an example could be offered than a story written in1836 by a Ukrainian-born ...

Gogol is for me the main author,” said Russian actor-director Oleg Liptsin. “Probably he’s been that way since third grade, when I was waiting to get a little older for two things: to start ...