![AHM](../../../../../../include/images/Header.jpg)
SERGEI PROKOFIEV: WAR AND PEACE
Sergei Prokofiev
![Cover](../../../../../../include/images/DVD/109092_LP_War_and_Peace.jpg)
![Trailer](../../../../../../include/images/dummy_detail_slideshow.jpg)
![Bilder](../../../../../../include/images/bilder_h.png)
![Order](../../../../../../include/images/order_button_en.png)
Sergei Prokofiev
SERGEI PROKOFIEV: WAR AND PEACE
1991
Soloists:
Olga Borodina, Alexander Gergalov, Gegam Gregoriam
Orchestra, Chorus:
Chorus and Orchestra of the Kirov Opera
Conductor:
Valery Gergiev
Director:
Graham Vick
Sergei Prokofiev devoted the last twelve years of his life to War and Peace. He completed the instrumentalisation by April 1942 and the entire score was ready in March 1943. Having completed the first version (containing eleven scenes) unusually quickly, the composer continued working on the opera over the next ten years. Consequently, the work has appeared in different versions and orchestrations. Tolstoy’s massive chronicle of Russian family life during and after the Napoleonic Wars is one of the greatest novels in world literature and is very close to the hearts and experiences of the Russian people. During World War II, another ‘great patriotic war’, the Soviet authorities, in the face of the Nazi invasion, pasted pages of Tolstoy’s book on to public buildings. Writing his final opera during this momentous period, Prokofiev very skilfully captured Tolstoy’s piercing insight into human nature, choosing dramatic key moments from Tolstoy to reflect private and public destinies against a background of Russia under threat. This production of War and Peace was mounted at a time when the country was again undergoing momentous changes. The greatest landmark in the stage history of the opera came with the 1991 production at the Mariinsky Theatre, when Prokoviev´s complete score was performed for the first time with no cuts (the musical director and conductor was Valéry Gergiev and the production was directed by Graham Vick and designed by Tim O´Brian). This production, staged at the start of the third millennium, presents a fresh reading of Prokofiev´s masterpiece.
Label:
Arthaus Musik
Genre:
Legendary Performances
Running Time:
248
Picture Format:
4:3
Sound Format:
PCM Stereo
Number of Discs:
2
Region:
0
Languages:
RU
Subtitle Languages:
GB, DE, FR, ES
EAN:
0807280909296
UPC:
807280909296
Blu-ray:
109093
![Cover](../../../../../../include/images/DVD/109149_Rusalka_LP_DVD.jpg)
Antonín Dvořák
David Pountney’s landmark English National Opera staging of Dvořák’s haunting fairy tale opera left critics and audiences spellbound. The production is set in a Victorian nursery where an adolescent girl, on the brink of sensual awakening, dreams of first love. Her story is that of Rusalka the wood nymph who, like Hans Christian(...)
![Cover](../../../../../../include/images/DVD/109153_Tannhaeuser_LP_DVD.jpg)
Richard Wagner
The double title of the opera ''Tannhäuser oder der Sängerkrieg auf der Wartburg'', which had its grand premiere on 19 October 1845 under Wagner''s direction in the Hoftheater in Dresden, is already an indication of how Wagner''s work unites two circles of material whose tradition stems from separate(...)