CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of Part 1 (Peter Allen) ; Part 1, scenes 1-3 -- CD 2. Part 1, scenes 4-7 ; Choral epilogue -- CD 3. Part 2, scenes 8-10 -- CD 4. Part 2, scenes 11-13 ; Closing remarks (Allen) -- CD 5. ChevronTexaco's opera quiz (Steven Blier, host, with Ken Benson, Charles Osborne and Christopher Purdy) ; Synopsis of Part 2 (Allen).
Call number
*LDC 27390
Note
Compact discs.
Performer (note)
Anna Netrebko (Natasha) ; Elena Obraztsova (Madame Akhrosimova) ; Ekaterina Semenchuk (Sonya) ; Gegam Grigorian (Pierre Bezukhov) ; Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Andrei Bolkonsky) ; Samuel Ramey (Field Marshal Kutuzov) ; Nikolai Gassiev (Platon Karatayev) ; Vassily Gerello (Napoleon Bonaparte) ; Sergei Koptchak (Balaga, General Bennigsen) ; Claudia Waite (Madame Peronskaya, Shopkeeper) ; Victoria Livengood (Hélène Bezukhova) ; Jane Shaulis (Bolkonsky's maid) ; Delores Ziegler (Maria Bolkonskaya) ; Mzia Nioradze (Matryosha, Mavra Kuzminichna) ; Majorie Elinor Dix (Dunyasha) ; Maria Zifchak (Marshal Murat's Adjutant) ; Janet Hopkins, Beverly O'Regan Thiele (French actresses) ; Leonid Lyubavin (Host of the ball, French Abbé, M. de Beausset) ; Ronald Naldi (Footman at the ball, Kutuzov's adjutant, Gen. Konovnitsin) ; John Cheek (Ilya Rostov) ; Sergey Murzaev (Vaska Denisov) ; Oleg Balashov (Anatol Kuragin) ; Evgenij Nikitin (Lt. Dolokhov) ; Vaclovas Daunoras (Bolkonsky's old lackey, 2nd German general) ; Mikhail Petrenko (Bolkonsky's valet, Tikhon, Marshal Davout) ; Vladimir Ognovenko (Nikolai Bolkonsky, Matveyev) ; Philip Cokorinos (Gavrila) ; Haijing Fu (Dr. Métivier, Gen. Rayevsky) ; Gary Rideout (Fyodor, Prince Eugène's adjutant) ; Trevor Kaplan-Newman (Trishka) ; Craig Hart (1st German general, 2nd madman) ; Charles Reid (Andrei's orderly) ; Robert Baker, Richard Vernon (Staff officers) ; Edward Crafts (Marshal Berthier) ;
Event (note)
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 2, 2002.
Source (note)
Metropolitan Opera;
Language (note)
Sung in Russian.
Author
Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953. Composer
Title
War and peace [sound recording] / music by Prokofiev ; libretto by Prokofiev and Mira Mendelson, after Tolstoy.
Imprint
[New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, c2002.
Series
ChevronTexaco-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Mar. 2, 2002.
ChevronTexaco-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Mar. 2, 2002.
Cast
Anna Netrebko (Natasha) ; Elena Obraztsova (Madame Akhrosimova) ; Ekaterina Semenchuk (Sonya) ; Gegam Grigorian (Pierre Bezukhov) ; Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Andrei Bolkonsky) ; Samuel Ramey (Field Marshal Kutuzov) ; Nikolai Gassiev (Platon Karatayev) ; Vassily Gerello (Napoleon Bonaparte) ; Sergei Koptchak (Balaga, General Bennigsen) ; Claudia Waite (Madame Peronskaya, Shopkeeper) ; Victoria Livengood (Hélène Bezukhova) ; Jane Shaulis (Bolkonsky's maid) ; Delores Ziegler (Maria Bolkonskaya) ; Mzia Nioradze (Matryosha, Mavra Kuzminichna) ; Majorie Elinor Dix (Dunyasha) ; Maria Zifchak (Marshal Murat's Adjutant) ; Janet Hopkins, Beverly O'Regan Thiele (French actresses) ; Leonid Lyubavin (Host of the ball, French Abbé, M. de Beausset) ; Ronald Naldi (Footman at the ball, Kutuzov's adjutant, Gen. Konovnitsin) ; John Cheek (Ilya Rostov) ; Sergey Murzaev (Vaska Denisov) ; Oleg Balashov (Anatol Kuragin) ; Evgenij Nikitin (Lt. Dolokhov) ; Vaclovas Daunoras (Bolkonsky's old lackey, 2nd German general) ; Mikhail Petrenko (Bolkonsky's valet, Tikhon, Marshal Davout) ; Vladimir Ognovenko (Nikolai Bolkonsky, Matveyev) ; Philip Cokorinos (Gavrila) ; Haijing Fu (Dr. Métivier, Gen. Rayevsky) ; Gary Rideout (Fyodor, Prince Eugène's adjutant) ; Trevor Kaplan-Newman (Trishka) ; Craig Hart (1st German general, 2nd madman) ; Charles Reid (Andrei's orderly) ; Robert Baker, Richard Vernon (Staff officers) ; Edward Crafts (Marshal Berthier) ;
Performer
Roy Stevens (Gen. Belliard) ; LeRoy Lehr (Napoleon's adjutant) ; Dennis Petersen (Gen. Compans' adjutant, Ivanov) ; Emmanuel di Villarosa (1st offstage voice) ; Iosef Shalamayev (Gen. Barclay de Tolly) ; Stefan Szkafarowsky (Gen. Yermolov, French officer) ; Frank Dellapolla (Tsar Alexander I) ; James Courtney (Capt. Ramballe) ; Bernard Fitch (Lt. Bonnet) ; Peter Volpe (Capt. Jacqeau) ; Vladimir Grishko (Gérard) ; Steven Tharp (Young factory worker) ; Michael Forest (1st madman) ; John Fiorito (2nd offstage voice) ; Gints Berzins (Joseph) ; Christopher Dumont (Marshal Caulaincourt) ; Valery Gergiev, conductor ; Metropolitan Opera chorus and Orchestra ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 2, 2002.