Cast & Characters

The Cast

Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Police Inspector: Andrei Popov
The Nose: Gordon Gietz
Kovalyov: Paulo Szot

The Characters

Praskovya Osipovna (soprano) - The barber’s wife.

Daughter of Pelageya Grigoryevna Podtochina (soprano) – Denied by Kovalyov.

Pelageya Grigoryevna Podtochina (mezzo-soprano) – A mother intent on getting Kovalyov to marry her daughter.

District Police Inspector (tenor) – The face of authority.

The Nose (tenor) – The which seems to have a mind of its own.

Yaryzhkin (tenor) – An acquaintance of Kovalyov.

Pyotr Fyodorovich (tenor) - Friend of Kovalyov.

Ivan (tenor) - Kovalyov’s servant. .

Major Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov (baritone) - A collegiate assessor; eager to find his nose.

Ivan Yakovlevich (bass) A barber.