ВОЙНА И МИР (WAR & PEACE)
contemporary
opera
18
premiere
Opera in thirteen scenes, in two parts, in Russian with Hungarian and English surtitles
Prokofiev was inspired to compose a musical drama based on Leo Tolstoy’s colossal historical novel War and Peace by the invasion of Russia by Nazi Germany. The Peace in the first half of the opera is a series of Prokofiev’s most beautiful and intimate tableaus, and it forms a strong contrast with the tsarist (or Soviet) scenes of the second, War part. Prokofiev paints a masterful picture of the fight of the masses and the individual characters in it. He interweaves the plot into a gigantic tale of love and death. The opera featuring 72 characters is adapted and produced by Catalan director Calixto in co-production with the Geneva Grand Théâtre.
Conductor
Andrei Bolkonski
Natascha Rostova
Sonia Rostova
Page of Andrei Bolkonski / Ivanov
Maria Dimitrievna Ajhrossimova / Mavra Kouzminicha
Count Ilya Rostov
Pierre Bezukhov
Helene Bezukhova
Anatole Kuragin
Dolokhov / Jacquot
Napoleon Bonaparte
Karataiev
Maid of Bolkonski
Princess Maria Bolkonskaia
Servant of Bolkonski / Assistant of Napoleon / French soldier
Gypsy Matriocha / Assistant of Murat
Peronskaia / Douniacha
Page of Gavrila Akhrassimova / Berthier / Davout
Métivier (French doctor)
French abbot / Monsieur Beausset
Denissov
Former Page of Bolkonski / Cherbaty / Matveev
Page / Assistant of Kutuzov / A voice
Marshal Kutuzov