Valery Gergiev conducts War and Peace by Prokofiev at the Mariinsky Theatre
War and Peace, by Sergei Prokofiev; Libretto by Sergei Prokofiev and Mira Mendelson-Prokofieva after the novel of the same name by Lev Tolstoi; Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and Chorus, Valery Gergiev (conductor); Graham Vick (stage director); Paul Brown (Set Designer); Giuseppe Di Iorio (Lighting); Andrei Bondarenko (Prince Andrei Bolkonsky); Aida Garifulina (Natasha Rostova); Yulia Matochkina (Sonya); Larisa Diadkova (Maria Dmitrievna Akhrosimova); Sergei Aleksashkin (Count Ilya Rostov); Yevgeny Akimov (Pierre Bezukhov); Maria Maksakova (Helene Bezukhova); Ilya Selivanov (Anatol Kuragin); Edward Tsanga (Dolokhov); Yekaterina Sergeyeva (Princess Marya); Mikhail Petrenko (Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky); Yevgeny Ulanov (Denisov); Alexander Nikitin (Matveyev); Gennady Bezzubenkov (Field-Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov); Vasily Gerello (Napoleon); Mikhail Makarov (Ivanov); Andrei Popov (Platon Karatayev); Recorded on July 2014 at the Mariinsky Thatre, Saint Petersbourg; TV Director, Don Kent (240 min)
