Soprano Gwendoline Blondeel performs the roles of Douniacha & Peronskaïa in Prokofiev's War and Peace with Grand Theatre Geneve

Opera by Sergei Prokofiev

Libretto by the composer and Mira Mendelson after the novel by Leo Tolstoy
First performed in 1946 in St. Petersburg
For the first time at the Grand Théâtre de Genève
Coproduction with the Hungarian State Opera

September 13, 15, 17, 21, 24, 2021 – 7pm
September 19, 2021 – 3pm

CAST
Musical Director Alejo Pérez
Stage Director Calixto Bieito

Prince Andreï Bolkonski Björn Bürger
Prince Nikolaï Bolkonski Alexey Tikhomirov
Princesse Maria Bolkonski Liene Kinca
Comte Ilia Rostov Eric Halfvarson
Natasha Rostova Ruzan Mantashyan
Sonia, sa cousine Lena Belkina
Comte Pierre Besoukhov Daniel Johansson
Comtesse Helena Besoukhova Elena Maximova
Maria Akhrossimova Natascha Petrinsky
Anatole Kouragin Ales Briscein
Dolokhov Alexey Shishlyaev
Général Koutouzov Dmitry Ulyanov
Napoléon Bonaparte Alexey Lavrov
Colonel Denisov Alexander Roslavets
Platon Karataïev Alexander Kravets
Gavrila Alexei Botnarciuc

Grand Théâtre de Genève Chorus
Orchestre de la Suisse romande

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Prokofiev’s most monumental opera finally arrives in Geneva: War and Peace should, according to some, be called Peace and War. Inspired among other things by the recent invasion of Russia by Nazi Germany and the breaking of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Sergei Prokofiev, the prodigal son who had returned to his homeland only a few years earlier, tackled Leo Tolstoy’s colossus to create this work of monumental disproportions.