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Peace and War: a Hungarian victory for Calixto Bieito’s bold production

War and Peace
© Valter Berecz | Hungarian State Opera
War and Peace
© Valter Berecz | Hungarian State Opera
War and Peace
© Valter Berecz | Hungarian State Opera
War and Peace
© Valter Berecz | Hungarian State Opera
War and Peace
© Valter Berecz | Hungarian State Opera
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“joy has been twisted into ridicule, fun into grotesquerie”
Reviewed at Hungarian State Opera: Auditorium, Budapest on 28 January 2023
Prokofiev, War and Peace
Hungarian State Opera
Alan Buribayev, Conductor
Calixto Bieito, Director
Rebecca Ringst, Set Designer
Ingo Krügler, Costume Designer
Michael Bauer, Lighting Designer
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
Hungarian State Opera Chorus
Csaba Szegedi, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
Andrea Brassói-Jőrös, Natasha Rostova
Szabolcs Brickner, Count Pierre Bezukhov
Péter Fried, Field-Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov
Zsolt Haja, Napoleon Bonaparte
István Kovács, Count Ilya Rostov
Erika Gál, Hélène Bezukhova
Melinda Heiter, Sonya
Zoltán Nyári, Anatole Kuragin
Krisztián Cser, Dolokhov, Jacquot
András Kiss, Colonel Vasska Denisov
Anna Csenge Fürjes, Princess Marya Bolkonskaya
Dalma Süle, Dunyasha, Madame Peronskaya
Andrea Szántó, Maria Dmitrievna Akhrosimova, Mavra Kusminitchna
Lusine Sahakyan, Matriosha
Gergely Ujvári, French Abbé, Monsieur de Beausset
Benjámin Beeri, Fyodor, Gérard
Barna Bartos, Ivanov
Péter Balczó, Platon Karataev
Ferenc Cserhalmi, Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky, General Belliard
Boldizsár Zajkás, Marshal Berthier, Gavrila, Marshal Davout
Máté Fülep, Matveyev, Tikhon Scherbatsky
Bence Pataki, Metivier
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