sovay: (Cho Hakkai: intelligence)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote 2009-03-04 04:44 pm (UTC)

I'm familiar with the story, but not the opera...

It's very faithful to the story—I think there's one invented character and one invented scene—but it may be even more so. Shostakovich's music, I think, is weirder than Gogol's prose.

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