Live from the Kirov Opera, Leningrad, this unique
Anglo-Soviet collaboration presents Sergei Prokofiev 's epic in a new production by Graham Vick to mark the centenary of the composer's birth. The opera is based on Tolstoy's novel and combines the vast panorama of Russian society as it faces Napoleon's invasion with the love story of Prince Andrei Bolkonsky and the young Natasha Rostova. Presented by Robert Lloyd , who scored a personal triumph when he sang Boris Godunov at the Kirov last year.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Kirov Opera, conductor Valery Gergiev
Designers Timothy O'Brien (sets) Vatentina Komolova (costumes)
Television director Humphrey Burton Producer Peter Maniura
Executive producer Dennis Marks
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