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Mead Witter School of Music brings war and peace in diverse spring program
27 Feb 2025 13:24 GMT
As the University of Wisconsin-Madison Symphony Orchestra tuned their instruments at the start of Friday’s concert, the packed audience was tense with anticipation, ready for a complex and powerful program.
The first piece was Erik Satie’s “Gymnopedie,” …
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Opera on the frontlines with 'War and Peace'
09 Mar 2023 12:57 GMT
… creative team behind "War and Peace," an opera by … 39;s novel "War and Peace," which was originally published … 'War and Peace' premiered 70 years after Prokofiev's … different versions of "War and Peace" until his death …
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“War and Peace” at the Bavarian State Opera: Why do people kill each other?
06 Mar 2023 13:00 GMT
… eleventh picture of Sergei Prokofiev’s opera “War and Peace”. They put a … production of Sergei Prokofiev’s Tolstoy opera “War and Peace” at the … Union, the composer Sergei Prokofiev painted over this story … the martial effects of Prokofiev’s score of pain …
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Review: The Time for Prokofiev’s ‘War and Peace’ Is Now
10 Mar 2023 17:13 GMT
The opera is only an impression of the novel. It follows the contrasts of the title, not by juxtaposing the battlefield and the ballroom episodically but rather by dividing them in two. The first part, peace, recounts Natasha’s engagement to and betrayal …
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War and Peace: the essence of art is abstraction
24 Feb 2023 19:02 GMT
The recent production of Prokofiev’s War and Peace at the Hungarian State Opera … article (Hungary’s staging of War and Peace puts spotlight on its Russia …
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Hungary’s staging of War and Peace puts spotlight on its Russia stance
13 Feb 2023 11:55 GMT
… Ukraine, but from the opera War and Peace, based on Leo Tolstoy’s … adapted by the composer Sergei Prokofiev in the 1940s, with the …
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The week in classical: BBC Proms 13, 15 & 17; Cadogan Hall Prom 2; Nabucco; War and Peace – review
03 Aug 2019 11:04 GMT
… Royal Opera House with Prokofiev’s sprawling War and Peace, in David Pountney’s … the best possible argument for Prokofiev’s contradictory piece. Written out … Celebration of Barbara Strozzi ★★★★
Nabucco ★★★★
War and Peace ★★★★
• Prom 17 will be broadcast …
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REVIEW POTPOURRI: Sopranos Rosa Ponselle Barbara Maurel; Composer Serge Prokofiev; Conductor Eugene Ormandy; Singer Gene Pitney; Remington
02 Aug 2023 20:08 GMT
… via YouTube.
Serge Prokofiev
Serge Prokofiev
Russian composer Serge Prokofiev (1891-1953) struggled … 1986, Rostropovich recorded the complete War and Peace in Paris with a cast … rhythms and sonorities that exemplify Prokofiev’s compositional genius.
Eugene …
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‘War and Peace’: The Relevance of 1812 as Explained by Tolstoy to Current Global Affairs
31 Jan 2019 06:11 GMT
… the material for Sergei Prokofiev’s brilliant
opera of … course, the dramatizations of War and Peace tend to highlight the
… confused professional reviewers
of War and Peace when it was first … ©Gilbert Doctorow, 2019
Appendix
War and Peace. First pages of Volume …
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The week in classical: War and Peace; LSO/Rattle; Riot Ensemble – review
24 Sep 2018 07:46 GMT
… of Austerlitz? – Prokofiev’s 1940s operatic version of War and Peace makes up for … Bondarchuk’s 1966-67 film War and Peace. The receding chandeliers of the … National Opera’s War and Peace – trailer
Prokofiev was still revising War and Peace when Britten began …
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