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War and peace : opera in two parts

Title: War and peace : radio broadcast, 2007-12-22 [sound recording] : opera in two parts / music by Sergei Prokofiev ; libretto by the composer and Mira Alexandrovna Mendelson, after the novel by Tolstoy.
Author: Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953.
Publication: [New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, [2007]

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Description

4 sound discs : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Series Statement

Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts
Toll Brothers--Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Dec. 22, 2007

Uniform Title

Voĭna i mir
Toll Brothers--Metropolitan Opera Quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts.
Toll Brothers--Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Dec. 22, 2007.

Alternative Title

Voĭna i mir

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Compact discs.
House program on file in Music Division.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 22, 2007

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in Russian.

Contents

CD 1. Introduction (Margaret Juntwait interviews wardrobe supervisor, William Malloy, and director of Met supers, Joseph Barnes, about War and peace) ; synopsis of Part I (Juntwait and Ira Siff) ; Part I [beginning] -- CD 2. Part I [conclusion] ; Loren Toolajian interviews Valery Gergiev ; Met Cameo (Naomi Lewin interviews Thomas Hammons) ; Toll Brothers--Metropolitan Opera Quiz (Martina Arroyo, host, with William Berger, Suzanne Martinucci, Peter Kazaras, and Fred Plotkin) ; Juntwait interviews Christine Schäfer about Humperdinck's Hänsel & Gretel ; Met Cameo (Naomi Lewin interviews Lost and Found security officer Avelino Asencio) ; synopsis of Part II (Juntwait and Siff) ; Part II [beginning] -- CD 3. Part II [continuation] -- CD 4. Part II [conclusion] ; closing remarks (Juntwait and Siff).

Call Number

*LDC 46557

OCLC

313750545

Author

Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953.

Title

War and peace : radio broadcast, 2007-12-22 [sound recording] : opera in two parts / music by Sergei Prokofiev ; libretto by the composer and Mira Alexandrovna Mendelson, after the novel by Tolstoy.

Imprint

[New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, [2007]

Series

Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts

Toll Brothers--Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Dec. 22, 2007

Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts.

Toll Brothers--Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Dec. 22, 2007.

Performer

Marina Poplavskaya (Natasha) ; Larisa Shevchenko (Mme. Akhrosimova) ; Ekaterina Semenchuk (Sonya) ; Kim Begley (Pierre Bezukhov) ; Alexej Markov (Andrei Bolkonsky) ; Samuel Ramey (Field Marshall Kutuzov) ; Nikolai Gassiev (Platon Karatayev) ; Vassily Gerello (Napoleon Bonaparte) ; Gennady Bezzubenkov (Balaga & Gen. Bennigsen) ; Claudia Waite (Mme. Peronskaya & Shopkeeper) ; Ekaterina Gubanova (Hélène Bezukhova) ; Kathryn Day (Bolkonsky's maid) ; Elizabeth Bishop (Maria Bolkonskaya) ; Tamara Mumford (Matryosha & Mavra Kuzminichna) ; Wendy Bryn Harmer (Dunyasha) ; Leah Wool (Marshal Murat's adjutant) ; Anita Johnson, Jennifer Zetlan (French actresses) ; Bernard Fitch (French Abbè & Lt. Bonnet) ; Joel Sorensen (M. de Beausset) ; Ronald Naldi (Host of the ball, Kutuzov's adjutant & Gen. Konovnitsin) ; Mikhail Kit (Ilya Rostov) ; Vitaliy Bilyy (Vaska Denisov) ; Oleg Balashov (Anatol Kuragin) ; Alexander Morozov (Lt. Dolokhov) ; Jeffrey Wells (Bolkonsky's old lackey & Marshal Berthier) ; Richard Bernstein (German General 2) ; Mikhail Petrenko (Tikhon & Marshal Davout) ; LeRoy Lehr (Bolkonsky's valet) ; Vladimir Ognovenko (Nikolai Bolkonsky & Matveyev) ; Stefan Szkafarowsky (Gavrila) ; Todd Thomas (Dr. Métivier) ; Lucas Meachem (Gen. Rayevsky) ; Mark Schowalter (Prince Eugène's adjutant, Andrei's orderly & Young factory worker) ; Adam Klein (Fyodor) ; Samuel Dylan Rosner (Trishka) ; Keith Miller (German General 1 & 2nd madman) ; Keith Jameson, Michael Devlin (Staff officers) ; Christopher Schaldenbrand (Gen. Belliard) ; Jan Opalach (Napoleon's adjutant) ; Dennis Petersen (Gen. Compans' adjutant & Ivanov) ; Eduardo Valdes (1st offstage voice) ; Iosef Shalamayev (Gen. Barclay de Tolly) ; Louis Otey (Gen. Yermolov) ; Thomas Hammons (French officer) ; Scott Graham (Tsar Alexander I) ; James Courtney (Capt. Ramballe) ; Peter Volpe (Capt. Jacqeau) ; Vladimir Grishko (Gérard) ; Michael Forest (1st madman) ; David Won (2nd offstage voice) ; Mike Gomborone (Joseph) ; Christopher Dumont (Marshal Caulaincourt) ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; Valery Gergiev, conductor ; Margaret Juntwait, broadcast announcer.

Event

Broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 22, 2007

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 72, no. 6 (Dec. 2007).

Language

Sung in Russian.

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Added Author

Mendelson-Prokofieva, M. Librettist

Juntwait, Margaret. Commentator

Siff, Ira. Commentator

Poplavska︠i︡a, Marina. Performer

Shevchenko, Larisa. Performer

Semenchuk, Ekaterina, 1976- Performer

Begley, Kim. Performer

Markov, Alekseĭ (Baritone) Performer

Ramey, Samuel. Performer

Gassiev, Nikolaĭ, 1950- Performer

Gerello, Vasiliĭ, 1963- Performer

Bezzubenkov, Gennadiĭ. Performer

Waite, Claudia. Performer

Gubanova, Ekaterina, 1979- Performer

Day, Kathryn. Performer

Bishop, Elizabeth (Mezzo-soprano) Performer

Mumford, Tamara. Performer

Harmer, Wendy Bryn. Performer

Wool, Leah. Performer

Johnson, Anita (Vocalist) Performer

Zetlan, Jennifer. Performer

Fitch, Bernard. Performer

Sorensen, Joel. Performer

Naldi, Ronald. Performer

Kit, Mikhail. Performer

Biliyy, Vitaliĭ. Performer

Balashov, Oleg, 1968- Performer

Morozov, Aleksandr, 1950- Performer

Wells, Jeffrey. Performer

Bernstein, Richard (Bass-baritone) Performer

Petrenko, Mikhail, 1976- Performer

Lehr, LeRoy. Performer

Ognovenko, Vladimir. Performer

Szkafarowsky, Stefan. Performer

Thomas, Todd. Performer

Meachem, Lucas. Performer

Schowalter, Mark. Performer

Klein, Adam. Performer

Rosner, Samuel Dylan. Performer

Miller, Keith (Bass-baritone) Performer

Jameson, Keith (Tenor) Performer

Devlin, Michael, 1942- Performer

Schaldenbrand, Christopher. Performer

Opalach, Jan. Performer

Petersen, Dennis. Performer

Valdes, Eduardo (Tenor) Performer

Shalamayev, Iosef. Performer

Otey, Louis. Performer

Hammons, Thomas. Performer. Interviewee

Graham, Scott. Performer

Courtney, James, 1946- performer

Volpe, Peter. Performer

Grishko, Volodymyr. Performer

Forest, Michael. Performer

Won, David. Performer

Gomborone, Mike. Performer

Dumont, Christopher. Performer

Gergiev, Valeriĭ, 1953- Conductor. Interviewee

Malloy, William. Interviewee

Barnes, Joseph. Interviewee

Toolajian, Loren. Interviewer

Lewin, Naomi. Interviewer

Arroyo, Martina. Host

Berger, William, 1961- Commentator

Martinucci, Suzanne. Commentator

Kazaras, Peter. Commentator

Plotkin, Fred. Commentator

Schäfer, Christine, 1965- Interviewee

Asencio, Avelino. Interviewee

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Voĭna i mir.

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) Performer

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) Donor NN-RHA

Added Title

Toll Brothers--Metropolitan Opera Quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 46557

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