What is The Nose?
Q: What is The Nose?
A: The Nose is an opera by Dmitri Shostakovich based on the story written by Nikolai Gogol.
Q: When was The Nose written?
A: The Nose was written in 1927 by Dmitri Shostakovich.
Q: How did Shostakovich make Soviet operas interesting again?
A: Shostakovich made Soviet operas interesting again by taking the story called The Nose which was written by Nikolai Gogol and turning it into an opera.
Q: What is The Nose about?
A: The Nose is about a man who wakes up one day to find his nose has gone.
Q: When was The Nose first performed?
A: The Nose was first performed in 1930.
Q: Why did the performances of The Nose have to stop after the critics wrote negative things about it?
A: The performances of The Nose had to stop after the critics wrote negative things about it because of the political situation in the Soviet Union which was being ruled by the dictator Stalin.
Q: What does The Nose satire?
A: The Nose is a satire that pokes fun at bureaucrats: people in official jobs who think they are more important than they really are.
