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12 de dic. de 2006 · Sergei Prokofiev: War And Peace is a 1993 Philips Classics Productions recording starring the Kirov Chorus and Orchestra under the direction of Valery Gergiev. Chorus Masters Valery Borisov and Leonid Tepliakov. The booklet is almost 350 pages long. Bernard Jacobson has written the essay "Ambitious Operatic Epic".
Summary. In choosing to set Tolstoy's monumental novel War and Peace as an opera, Prokofiev set himself the biggest challenge of his career. He worked on the opera for over a decade, and died before he could see it reach the stage. The opera underwent numerous revisions and metamorphoses as Prokofiev did his best to take onboard the critical ...
Music with Ease > 20th Century Opera > War and Peace (by Sergei Prokofiev) War and Peace (by Sergei Prokofiev) Share this page: Opera in two parts and five acts. Composed in 1941-43. Libretto by Sergei Prokofiev and Myra Mendelson, afer the 19th century novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Premiere: 7 June 1945 in the Conservatory, Moscow, USSR. ...
Recorded in 1991, this War and Peace production was the first complete staging of Prokofiev's huge and masterful opera. Mstislav Rostropovich led concert performances of the work complete in Paris in December, 1986, from which Erato derived the opera's first complete recording, issued in 1988 on a 4-CD set. That was an excellent effort on all ...
Opera in two parts (an Epigraph and thirteen scenes), sometimes arranged as five acts, by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer and Mira Mendelson, based on the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Although Tolstoy's work is classified as a novel, the 1812 invasion of Russia by the French was based on real-life events, and some ...
10 de ago. de 2023 · Sergei Prokofiev was born in Sontsivka, Ukraine, on 27 April 1891, then part of the Russian Empire. He was born into a wealthy family – his father ran a large estate – and he had no siblings. Showing musical talent at an early age, Sergei was already composing his own pieces from 5 years old, and, aged nine, he had a stab at composing an opera.
3 pieces. Composition Year. 1941-42. Genre Categories. Pieces; For piano; Scores featuring the piano; For 1 player. Related Works. All three pieces are arrangements of existing works: No.1 from the opera War and Peace, Op.91. Nos.2 and 3 from the film score to Lermontov (1941).
