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.

Cast

Andrey Zhilikhovsky

Fürst Andrej Bolkonski

Olga Kulchynska

Natascha Rostowa

Mischa Schelomianski

Ilja Andrejewitsch Rostow

Alexandra Yangel

Sonja / Adjutant Murats

Kevin Conners

Gastgeber des Silvesterballs / De Beausset / Französischer Abbé

Alexander Fedin

Lakai des Silvesterballs / Kaisarow

Violeta Urmana

Marja Dmitrijewna Achrossimowa

Olga Guryakova

Peronskaja / Händlerin

Arsen Soghomonyan

Graf Pierre Besuchow

Victoria Karkacheva

Gräfin Hélène Besuchowa