Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
A 1998 production staring Anna Netrebko, Larissa Diadkova, Nikolai Gassiev, Aleksander Gergalov in this Kirov Opera & Ballet production of the Prokofiev opera, with Valery Gergiev conducting.
