the novel by Leo Tolstoy
Creative/Crew
Conductor
Production
Set Designer(s)
Costume Designer(s)
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Choreographer
Chorus Director
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Assistant to Mr. Lebois
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Supertitles
Stage Manager(s)
Cast
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
Natasha Rostova
Sonya
Host
Master of Ceremonies
Marya Dmitrievna Akhrosimova
Madame Peronskaya
Count Rostov
Pierre Bezukhov
Hélène Bezukhova
Anatol Kuragin
Dolokhov
Denisov
Tsar Alexander
Bolkonsky chambermaid
Bolkonsky old footman
Bolkonsky's valet
Princess Marya Bolkonskaya
Old Prince Nicolai Bolkonsky
Matryosha, a Gypsy
French Abbé
Métivier, a French doctor
Coachman Balaga
Dunyasha, the Rostov chambermaid
Gavrila, Akhrosimova's footman
Napoleon
Tikhon Shcherbaty
Fyodor
Trishka
Matveyev
Prince Andrei's orderly
First Prussian General
Second Prussian General
Field Marshal Kutuzov
Kutuzov's aide-de-camp
First staff officer
Second staff officer
Marshal Berthier
Napoleon's aide-de-camp
General Compan's aide-de-camp
Murat's aide-de-camp
General Belliard
Prince Eugene's aide-de-camp
Monsieur De Beausset
Off-stage voice
General Bennigsen
General Barclay de Tolly
General Yermolov
General Konovnitsin
General Rayevsky
Captain Ramballe
Lieutenant Bonnet
Jacquot
Gérard
shopkeeper
Mavra Kuzminichna, the Rostov maid
Young workman
Ivanov
French Officer
Platon Karatayev
Marshal Davout
First madman
Second madman
Third madman
First French actress
Second French actress
Show Dates
Time and Place
Russia, Between 1806 and 1812
Scenes
Media
Sponsors
The performance of September 12 is sponsored by Andersen Consulting.
Acknowledgements
This new production is made possible by gifts from the Columbia Foundation, Cynthia Wood, and the Paul L. and Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation.
Notes
Opera in thirteen scenes and an epigraph
Scenery constructed in San Francisco Opera Scenic Studios
Costumes executed by San Francisco Opera Costume Shop and Ruggero Peruzzi for Costumi d'Arte SRL, Rome-Florence
Footwear constructed by Anello & Davide Ltd., London
Horses supplied by Animal Stars
Computerized moving lights compliments of Telebeam Corporation. Special thanks to Jean Yves Morvan.
Automatic color changers courtesy of Pan Command Systems. Special thanks to John Richardson, Charlie Malings and Jim Gordon.
Projection photo credits: Proctor Jones (special photography from the Russian collection); Ron Scherl, Thomas J. Munn, Michael Helbig.
San Francisco Opera gratefully acknowledges the support of its many supernumeraries who have volunteered their services for this year's production of "War and Peace."
Supernumeraries are listed for the first group of three operas; there is no opera-by-opera breakdown: