The Nose with Alejandro

On this episode, I talk to my friend Alejandro (he/him) about Dmitri Shostakovich's opera The Nose. Originally based off a short story by Nikolai Gogol, it tells the story of a man who wakes up one morning with his nose missing and the ordeal of finding it again. It's a silly surreal opera that satirizes Russian society at that time. We discuss what body parts we could live without, the pressure to get married, and how class divisions present themselves in different points in time. And I learn a new acronym: NIMBY! 

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