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WNO at Birmingham Hippodrome, Saturday November 17 2018 Conductor: Tomáš Hanus. Production: David Pountney. Sets: Robert Innes Hopkins. Costumes: Marie-Jeanne Lecca. Lighting: Malcolm Rippeth. Video: David Haneke. Andrei: Jonathan McGovern. Natasha: Lauren Michelle. Pierre: Mark Le Brocq. Princess Marie Akrossimova, Princess Marya, Aide de Camp de Murat, Mavra Kuzminichna: Leah-Marian Jones. Hélène, Prince Eugène’s Aide de Camp, Dunyasha: Jurgita Adamonytė. Anatole, First General, Kutuzov’s Aide de Camp, Bonnet, Barclay: Adrian Dwyer. Count Rostov, Tichon, Berthier, Ramballe, Beningsen: James Platt. Old Prince Bolkonsky: Jonathan May. Jacquot, Second General, General Belliard, Yermolov: Donald Thomson. Dolokhov, Denisov, Napoleon, Raevsky: David Stout. Balaga, Kutuzov, Davout: Simon Bailey. Sonya, Peronskaya, Kondratyevna: Samantha Price. Servant, Dr Métivier: Julian Boyce. Housemaid, Vasilisa: Carolyn Jackson. Valet, Gavrila, Matveyev: Laurence Cole. Joseph: George Newton-Fitzgeral...

Opéra National de Paris – Bastille, March 17 2005 Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski. Production: Francesca Zambello. Sets: John Macfarlane. Costumes: Nicky Gillibrand. Prince Andrei Bolkonski: Bo Skovhus. Natasha Rostova: Olga Guryakova. Sonia/aide de camp to Marshal Murat: Larisa Kostyuk. Maria D. Akhrossimova: Felicity Palmer. Madame Peronskaïa: Irina Bogatcheva. Count Ilia A. Rostov/General Bennigsen: Leonid Zimnenko. Count Piotr Bezukhov: Michaël König.. Countess Hélène Bezukhova: Elena Zaremba. Anatoly Kuragin/General Barclay de Tolly: Vsevolod Grivnov. Princess Maria: Susana Poretsky. Prince Nikolai A. Bolkonski: Gleb Nikolsky. Balaga/Tikhon Cherbaty/Matveiev: Vladimir Matorine. Gipsy Matriocha: Irina Doljenko. Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov: Vladimir Ognovenko. Napoleon: Vassili Gerello. Platon Karataïev: Nikolai Gassiev. Orchestra and Chorus of the Opéra National de Paris. Prokofiev It was marvellous to see this great production on its third outing in Paris. I was afraid that nove...