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War and peace : from the Kirov Theatre Leningrad / music by Sergei Prokofiev ; libretto from Tolstoy's novel by the composer and Mira Mendelson Prokofiev ; director, Graham Vick.
LIBRA Laserdisc Phi. 4400705271 LD
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Voĭna i mir, author.
- Series:
- Philips video classics
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 3 videodiscs (236 min.): sound, color ; 12 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [The Netherlands] : Philips, [1995], c1991, c 1993]
- Language Note:
- Sung in Russian; subtitles in English.
- System Details:
- CX encoded; CLV, NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- CX encoded
- NTSC
- video file
- Participant:
- Alexander Gergalov (Prince Andrei Bolkonsky) ; Yelena Prochina (Countess Natasha Rostova) ; Gegam Gregorian (Count Pierre Bezukhov) ; Nikolai Okhotnikov (Field Marshal Kutuzov) ; Vassily Gerelo (Napoleon) ; Yuri Marusin (Prince Anatol Kuragin) ; Olga Borodina (Countess Hélène Bezukhova) ; Irina Bogachova (Maria Akhrossimova) ; Sergei Alexashkin (Count Rostov) ; Alexander Morosov (Dolokhov) ; Vlacimir Ognavenko (Old Prince Bolkonsky [&] Matveyev) ; Mikhail Kit (Denisov) ; Svetlana Volkova (Sonya) ; supporting soloists ; Chorus and Orchestra of the Kirov Opera ; conductor, Valery Gergiev.
- Credits:
- Dessigner, Timothy O'Brien ; camermen, Barry Chaston ... [et al.] ; production supervisor (RM Arts), Colin Wilson ; production managers (BBC and Leningrad Television), Sergei Beck, Helen Hill ; videotape editor, Steve Eveleigh ; directed for television by Humphrey Burton ; producer, Peter Maniura.
- Notes:
- Opera in 13 scenes.
- A coproduction of BBC Television, RM Arts,Philips Classics Productions and the Royal Opera House in association with the Kirov Opera, Opéra Bastille and Leningrad Television.
- Recorded on 5 sides only.
- Stereo; digital sound.
- Running time including opening, intermediate, and closing titles and curtain calls: 4:08:33.
- Program notes by Bernard Jacobson in English, by Kadja Grönke in German, by Pierre-E. Barbier in French, and by Quirino Principe in Italian, and synopsis by Grönke in German with English, French, and Italian translations (8 + [4] p. : ill.) laid in container.
- "Also available as an audio recording: 434 097-2 (3 CDs)" -- Container.
- UPC: 440705271.
- OCLC:
- 35082709
- Publisher Number:
- 440 070 527-1 Philips
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