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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Libretto · Opera · 1934

Katerina lives unhappily with her husband Zinovy and his father Boris. She begins an affair with Sergei, a worker on the family estate. After Boris catches Sergei leaving Katerina’s room and has him beaten, Katerina poisons Boris. When Zinovy discovers the affair, Katerina and Sergei kill him and hide his body. They marry, but the corpse is found and both are sent to a Siberian prison camp. Sergei pursues another convict, Sonyetka, and tricks Katerina into giving up her stockings for her. After the other convicts mock her, Katerina pushes Sonyetka into an icy river and falls in herself.

The Nose

Libretto · Opera · 1930

Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov wakes to find that his nose has disappeared. A barber discovers it in a loaf of bread and tries to dispose of it, while Kovalyov encounters the nose dressed as an official of higher rank. It refuses to acknowledge him. Police eventually capture the nose and return it, but Kovalyov cannot put it back on his face. He suspects Madame Podtochina, whose daughter he declined to marry, but she denies any role. The city becomes consumed by rumors about the missing nose. Kovalyov later wakes with it reattached and returns to his usual routine.

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