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Breathing Exercises

Dmitri Shostakovich’s first opera was a setting of Nikolai Gogol’s 1836 story “The Nose.”

This scene is from the Royal Ballet & Opera’s 2016 staging.

(Thanks, Randy.)

September 21, 2024September 20, 2024 | Literature · Oddities

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