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War and peace

Title: War and peace [sound recording] / music by Prokofiev ; libretto by Prokofiev and Mira Mendelson, after Tolstoy.
Author: Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953.
Publication: [New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, c2002.

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Description

5 sound discs : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

ChevronTexaco-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Mar. 2, 2002.

Uniform Title

Voĭna i mir
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Voĭna i mir

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

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.

Contents

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

OCLC

NYPG02-R123

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.

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.

Language

Sung in Russian.

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Added Author

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Mendelson-Prokofieva, M. Librettist

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Voĭna i mir.

Gergiev, Valeriĭ, 1953- Conductor

Netrebko, Anna. Performer

Obraz︠t︡sova, Elena. Performer

Semenchuk, Ekaterina. Performer

Grigoryan, Gegham, 1951- Performer

Hvorostovsky, Dmitri. Performer

Ramey, Samuel. Performer

Gassiev, Nikolai. Performer

Gerello, Vasiliĭ. Performer

Kopčák, Sergej. Performer

Waite, Claudia. Performer

Livengood, Victoria, 1961- Performer

Shaulis, Jane. Performer

Ziegler, Delores. Performer

Nioradze, Mzia. Performer

Dix, Marjorie Elinor. Performer

Zifchak, Maria. Performer

Hopkins, Janet (Singer) Performer

Thiele, Beverly O'Regan. Performer

Lyubavin, Leonid. Performer

Naldi, Ronald. Performer

Cheek, John, 1948- Performer

Murzaev, Sergeĭ. Performer

Balashov, Oleg, 1968- Performer

Nikitin, Evgeny. Performer

Daunoras, Vaclovas. Performer

Petrenko, Mikhail, 1976- Performer

Ognovenko, Vladimir. Performer

Cokorinos, Philip. Performer

Fu, Haijing (Singer) Performer

Rideout, Gary. Performer

Kaplan-Newman, Trevor. Performer

Hart, Craig (Singer) Performer

Reid, Charles. Performer

Baker, Robert (Singer) Performer

Vernon, Richard, 1950- Performer

Crafts, Edward. Performer

Stevens, Roy (Vocalist) Performer

Lehr, LeRoy. Performer

Petersen, Dennis. Performer

Villarosa, Emmanuel di. Performer

Shalamayev, Iosef. Performer

Szkafarowsky, Stefan. Performer

Dellapolla, Frank. Performer

Courtney, James, 1946- performer

Fitch, Bernard. Performer

Volpe, Peter. Performer

Grishko, Volodymyr. Performer

Tharp, Steven. Performer

Forest, Michael. Performer

Fiorito, John. Performer

Berzins, Gints. Performer

Dumont, Christopher. Performer

Blier, Steven. Commentator

Benson, Ken (Ken G.) Commentator

Osborne, Charles, 1927-2017. Commentator

Purdy, Christopher. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 27390

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