PROKOFIEV
- War and Peace
(Krieg und Frieden · Guerre et paix)

Prince Andrei Bolkonsky: ALEXANDER GERGALOV
Countess Natasha Rostova: YELENA PROKINA
Count Pierre Bezukhov: GEGAM GRIGORIAN
Field-Marshall Kutuzov: NIKOLAI OKHOTNIKOV
Napoleon: VASSILY GERELO
Prince Anatol Kuragin: YURI MARUSIN
Countess Hélène Bezukhova: OLGA BORODINA
Maria Akhrossimova: IRINA BOGACHEVA
Count Rostov: SERGEI ALEXASHIN
Dolokhov: ALEXANDER MOROZOV
KIROV OPERA & ORCHESTRA
conducted by VALERY GERGIEV

PAL/LD 070 427-1 DDD
PAL/VHS 070 427-3
NTSC/LD 070 527-1 DDD
NTSC/VHS 070 527-3
PHILIPS
LIVE RECORDING
A production of BBC, RM Arts and Philips Classics Productions

- This is THE Kirov production from 1991 that brought Gergiev and the Kirov Opera wide praise and attention outside Russia.

- "Not merely in its span of more than four and a half hours, but in artistic quality also, the live relay of Prokofiev's War and Peace from St Petersburg must be counted as one of the greatest achievements of televised opera." (Opera Magazine)