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Prokofiev: War and Peace

Sergei S. Prokofiev's monumental setting of Leo N. Tolstoy's epic novel, War and Peace. The composer and his wife Mira compressed the plot, set during Napoleon's Russian campaign, into a powerful sequence of scenes in which the love story between Natasha Rostova and Andrei Bolkonsky and the description of the Russian army's fight against the French invasion alternate in rich contrast, and at the same time are closely interwoven. All is related by the music in its fullness of splendid themes and touchingly quiet moments. Prokofiev's musical-dramatic masterpiece combines social drama and historical chronicle in its 13 scenes to form an exuberant panorama. In this production by Dmitri Tcherniakov, the opera is performed in in Munich for the first time ever.

Top Cast

  • Andrey Zhilikhovsky

    Andrey Zhilikhovsky

    Fürst Andrej Bolkonski

  • Olga Kulchynska

    Olga Kulchynska

    Natascha Rostowa

  • Mischa Schelomianski

    Mischa Schelomianski

    Ilja Andrejewitsch Rostow

  • Alexandra Yangel

    Alexandra Yangel

    Sonja / Adjutant Murats

  • Kevin Conners

    Kevin Conners

    Gastgeber des Silvesterballs / De Beausset / Französischer Abbé

  • Alexander Fedin

    Alexander Fedin

    Lakai des Silvesterballs / Kaisarow

  • Violeta Urmana

    Violeta Urmana

    Marja Dmitrijewna Achrossimowa

  • Olga Guryakova

    Olga Guryakova

    Peronskaja / Händlerin

  • Arsen Soghomonyan

    Arsen Soghomonyan

    Graf Pierre Besuchow

Overview

Sergei S. Prokofiev's monumental setting of Leo N. Tolstoy's epic novel, War and Peace. The composer and his wife Mira compressed the plot, set during Napoleon's Russian campaign, into a powerful sequence of scenes in which the love story between Natasha Rostova and Andrei Bolkonsky and the description of the Russian army's fight against the French invasion alternate in rich contrast, and at the same time are closely interwoven. All is related by the music in its fullness of splendid themes and touchingly quiet moments. Prokofiev's musical-dramatic masterpiece combines social drama and historical chronicle in its 13 scenes to form an exuberant panorama. In this production by Dmitri Tcherniakov, the opera is performed in in Munich for the first time ever.

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