Performa 09 Premieres: Tacita Dean, Alicia Framis, and William Kentridge Oct 30, 2009
Renowned South African artist William Kentridge will present a dazzling and comic 40-minute performance in which the artist himself gives an unusual presentation related to his current opera-in-progress: a work inspired by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovichs satirical opera The Nose, based on the Nikolai Gogol short story of the same name, which will debut at the Metropolitan Opera in March 2010. The Nose tells the surreal story of a pompous government official who awakes one morning to... (AbsoluteArts.com)
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Gogol Nightmares: Leave it to Rogue Ensemble, a company that mixes multimedia and puppetry to transform the real into the deeply surreal, to tackle a trio of short stories by 19th century Russian satirist Nikolai Gogol. With a script by KPCC radio personality Kitty Felde and music from Ego Plum, The Gogol Project is now at the Bootleg Theater (it runs through Nov. 1). (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
I asked Shashi for a job: Amitabh Sep 17, 2009
In my second year in Sherwood, I won the best actor cup for the play Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol, the great Russian playwright. . (India Times, India)
Celebrating Gogol and the power of irony by revisiting 'The Collected Tales' Jul 26, 2009
Somehow it escaped my attention until now that this year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Gogol. The actual date of this happy event was in March, either the 19th or the 31st depending on whether you consult the Julian or the Gregorian calendar. (Boston Globe)
Oleg Yankovsky, Russian actor May 21, 2009
He returned to Russia in February from Germany to act in "The Marriage," a comedy by Nikolai Gogol. Leading Russian politicians, actors, and directors paid tribute yesterday to the actor, who played the father in Tarkovsky's semiautobiographical 1975 film "The Mirror" and the writer star of "Nostalghia" in 1983. (Boston Globe)
Want to be a dude? Movies teach you how Mar 18, 2009
The Adventureland twentysomethings toss around Nikolai Gogol and Virgil as often as they do bags of weed. 3. (MSNBC -- Movies)
'The Nose' gets a rare showing by Opera Boston Feb 22, 2009
Based on a story published in 1836 by Nikolai Gogol, the cartoonish, cinematic libretto tells the bizarre tale of a vain St. Petersburg civil servant (Platon Kovalyov) who wakes up one day to find his "olfactory organ" missing. Where it once proudly protruded is now a "place as flat as a freshly cooked pancake." Even worse, Kovalyov sees his nose gallivanting around St. Petersburg as a higher-ranking civil servant and Don Juan. (Boston Globe)
Emancipation of the Serfs by Alexan... Feb 11, 2009
Nikolai Gogol s unfinished Dead Souls satirizes the system of Russian serfdom through the protagonist s plot to purchase the souls of dead serfs still on the taxation register, mortgage them after acquisition through legal documentation, and retire in great wealth. The story highlights the absurdity of the system which had no regular census mechanisms providing for accurate records in terms of living serfs. (Suite101.com)
