War and Peace
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 10, 2007
Closed Jan 3, 2008
Opened Dec 10, 2007
Closed Jan 3, 2008
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Running Time:
4hr. 15min.
4hr. 15min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Prokofiev's adaptation of Tolstoy's novel captures its sweeping worldview as well as its insights into individuals. The resources required for this opera (65 solo roles, a depiction of the largest land battle in European history, and the magnificence of Imperial balls in Czarist Russia) makes this one of the biggest productions in Met history.
For the first five performances, dynamic Russian maestro Valery Gergiev marshals the musical forces of a cast that includes many leading Russian singers. The three remaining performances are conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.
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Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb has been doing his well-publicized utmost to instill his schedule with aspects of what are more regularly considered the legitimate theater's domain. But ironically, he didn't have to venture farther than the company storage spaces to present the most thrillingly theatrical spectacle of the current opera or Broadway season: the revival of the company's lavish 2002 production of Sergei Prokofiev's War and Peace, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy, and one of the genre's grandest 20th-century works.
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