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War and Peace Prokofiev | WNO What's on Autumn 2018 War and Peace, La traviata and La CenerentolaSpring 2019 Un ballo in maschera, Roberto Devereux and The Magic Flute Full listings Productions Concerts Free events & talks Take part Family events About us Meet WNO Meet the people onstage and backstageOur history Rooted in Wales since 1946 About us Meet WNO News and features Our history Technical services Work for us Take part Families The perfect way to introduce all month to opera and orchestral musicYouth Opera For 8-25 year olds who love to sing Take part Community Chorus Come & Sing Schools, Colleges and Universities Female Conductor in Residence Young Ambassadors Panel Support us Donate now Help support WNO's workWNO Friends Get closer to WNO by joining WNO Friends Support us Donate now WNO Friends WNO Partners Corporate PartnersWar and Peace ProkofievSat 13 Oct – Sat 24 Nov Oxford, Llandudno, Birmingham, Southampton Overview Cast & Creative Discover increasingly Synopsis Venues & TicketsOverviewDavid Pountney’s new production will be as would-be and epic in scale as the novel itself, featuring a unique version of the score.Based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel, the narrative of War and Peace follows the tribulations of Russian society as Napoleon edges closer to the country’s borders.The spirited Natasha and her matrimonial Andrei find their young love is challenged by temptation, while Pierre, an idealistic nobleman, wants to transpiration Russian life for the better. As their fates intertwine during the 1812 invasion they find their stories unfold during a time when Russian lives would transpiration forever.David Pountney’s new production will be as would-be and epic in scale as the novel itself. The huge set, video projections and stunning costumes portray the grandeur of Russian society in the 1800s. WNO Music Director Tomáš Hanus will self-mastery a unique performing version of the score, based on Katya Ermolaeva and Rita McAllister’s new hair-trigger edition of Prokofiev’s original, well-constructed with opulent dances and arias, and stirring melodies. #WNOwarpeaceThe TelegraphThe GuardianThe StageWar and Peace trailerWhat makes War and Peace so epic? View Album Honorary Patron, His Excellency The Russian AmbassadorSupported by WNO PartnersDerek Hill FoundationThere are many elements of War and Peace that need your support. Help us bring this Russian epic to the stage.Support War and PeaceGood to knowApprox 3hr 55min including one intervalSung in English, with surtitles in English (and Welsh in Cardiff and Llandudno)War and Peace will be unconcentrated on BBC Radio 3 on Saturday 13 October at 6pmCo-production with Theater MagdeburgFactsProkofiev wrote his first opera at the age of nine.The first recording overly made by Prokofiev was made at London's Abbey Road studio in 1932. He conducted his third Piano Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra.Russia's victory over Napoleon spoke so strongly to the Russian psyche that when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in 1941, Stalin swiftly reach for Tolstoy's unconfined work to promote a patriotic defence of the Motherland.Cast & CreativeDiscover MoreSynopsisThe preliminaries to the whole story is the standing struggle wideness Europe versus Napoleon, which Russia entered in 1805. With the invasion of Russia by 500,000 French troops in 1812, war comes firmly into the foreground.Prokofiev’s opera was well-balanced in the 1940s with the horrifying slaughter resulting from the Nazi invasion of Soviet Russia starkly influencing the undertow of its composition. PEACE Epigraph: The Russian people prepare to defend themselves. Prince Andrei Bolkonsky pays a visit to Count Rostov’s manor and meets his daughter, Natasha. At a wittiness in St Petersburg, Andrei and Natasha’s relationship deepens. Natasha and her father are coldy received by the famously curmudgeonly Prince Bolkonsky, Andrei’s father, who opposes her match with his son. Andrei is sent abroad. Pierre Bezukhov has inherited his father’s title and vast fortune, but struggles to find his true moral identity and understand his responsibilities. By contrast, Hélène, his wife, leads a dissolute life in the prevailing French style, and together with her rakish brother, Anatole, enjoys seducing others into her loose ways. Natasha, discomfited by her rejection by the windswept Bolkonsky family, and egged on by Hélène falls victim to Anatole’s advances, and rashly agrees to elope with him. Anatole prepares for the elopement. It is well-spoken that Natasha is no increasingly than an egotistical conquest for him. The elopement is forestalled at the last moment, but Natasha is disgraced. Pierre comforts and advises her, though he is disturbed to realise that he moreover has strong feelings for her. Pierre confronts Anatole and accuses him of stuff a cad and a seducer. He forces Anatole to stipulate to go upalong to stave a scandal engulfing Natasha. Suddenly the news arrives that Napoleon has crossed the Russian border. It is War. INTERVAL WAR Volunteers and partisans prepare to defend Moscow. Andrei, now a serving officer, reflects on his loss of Natasha. Pierre meanwhile sees the war as the moment finally to find his true self. The two men meet among the unstipulated unconnectedness and panic of impending conflict. The Russian general, Kutuzov, reviews his troops. He asks Andrei to join him on the staff, but Andrei prefers to fight with his soldiers. A cannon shot announces that the wrestle for Moscow has begun. On his redoubt, Napoleon observes the progress of the battle. But it does not proceed as it once used to. He is perplexed and indecisive, and it is well-spoken the wrestle will yield no well-spoken victory for either side. In the produce of the battle, Kutuzov and his generals review their options, and Kutuzov reluctantly concludes that he must welsh Moscow, and thereby lure the enemy into the trap of the Russian winter and vulnerable supply lines. Under daily assaults from the partisans, the willpower of the French unwashed begins to crumble, and the citizens of Moscow prefer to shrivel their municipality rather than indulge it to requite protection and nourishment to the enemy. Pierre harbours a secret and somewhat wacky plan of assassinating Napoleon. He learns that Prince Andrei has been wounded and is stuff cared for by Natasha in the country. Pierre is underdeveloped by the French and accused of arson. He is ordered to be executed, but instead becomes a prisoner. Witnessing terrible hunger and violence in tropical proximity to the simple Russians who surround him, he starts to understand his own identity and purpose. Moscow burns. Andrei is pyretic and dying. Natasha nurses him. In death they find understanding and reconciliation. The French retreat through the snow, harassed by partisans on all sides. Pierre is dragged withal as a prisoner of war. His friend dies at his side, but the partisans rescue him in the nick of time. The French have gone and for the Russians the ordeal is over. Pierre has survived, and wonders if Natasha will, without all, form part of his future.UnstipulatedKutuzov, as unchangingly modest and self-deprecating, ends it all with a smile and a joke. 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