War and Peace
Opera by Sergei Prokofiev
War and Peace is a 1946 230-minute opera in 13 scenes, plus an overture and an epigraph, by Sergei Prokofiev. Based on the 1869 novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, its Russian libretto was prepared by the composer and Mira Mendelson. Wikipedia
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Librettists: Sergei Prokofiev and Mira Mendelson
First performance: June 12, 1946, Mikhailovsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Adapted from: War and Peace
Characters: Anatole Kuragin, Pierre Bezukhov, Sonya, and more
Written: 1942
Language: Russian
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