Catch a glimpse behind the scenes of the Neue Oper Wien’s upcoming production of Shostakovich’s The Nose in this short [German] video.

Matthias Oldag’s production will première on 22 September at the Kammeroper Wien, Walter Kobéra conducts the amadeus ensemble-wien and the Vienna Chamber Choir:

Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra will première Wolfgang Rihm’s Verwandlung 5, commissioned by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien, today, 20 November, at the Musikverein in Vienna. Also on the programme: Symphony No. 6 by Schostakowitsch and Beethoven’s Eroica.

Wolfgang Rihm: Verwandlung 5
for orchestra | 11'
2 2 2 2 - 4 2 3 1 - timp, perc, str
world prem. 20.11.2013, Musikverein, Vienna; Cleveland Orchestra, cond. Franz Welser-Möst

Shostakovich’s opera The Nose opens at the Aix-en-Provence Festival tonight in the celebrated production by William Kentridge.

Kazushi Ono conducts the Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Lyon.

The performance at 5pm on 14 July will be broadcast live on radio classique.

This staging is a coproduction between the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the New York Met, and the Opéra National de Lyon, where it can be seen this October.

Watch a video trailer from the New York performances

and an interview with William Kentridge

Anthony Tommasini’s review of the New York production is here.