Prokofiev: War and Peace

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.

Directed by Andy Sommer, Dmitri Tcherniakov

Top cast

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Andrey Zhilikhovsky

Fürst Andrej Bolkonski

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Olga Kulchynska

Natascha Rostowa

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Mischa Schelomianski

Ilja Andrejewitsch Rostow

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Alexandra Yangel

Sonja / Adjutant Murats

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Kevin Conners

Gastgeber des Silvesterballs / De Beausset / Französischer Abbé

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Alexander Fedin

Lakai des Silvesterballs / Kaisarow

Violeta Urmana

Marja Dmitrijewna Achrossimowa

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Olga Guryakova

Peronskaja / Händlerin

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Arsen Soghomonyan

Graf Pierre Besuchow

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Victoria Karkacheva

Gräfin Hélène Besuchowa

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Bekhzod Davronov

Anatol Kuragin

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Alexei Botnarciuc

Leutnant Dolochow

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Christian Rieger

Ein alter Lakai der Bolkonskis

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Emily Sierra

Stubenmädchen der Bolkonskis

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Martin Snell

Kammerdiener der Bolkonskis

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Christina Bock

Fürstin Marja Bolkonskaja

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Sergei Leiferkus

Fürst Nikolai Andrejewitsch Bolkonski / Matwejew

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Oksana Volkova

Matrjoscha

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Elmira Karakhanova

Dunjascha

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Roman Chabaranok

Gawrila

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