Major casting for this season's run of War and Peace — the staging, directed by filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky (Siberiade, Runaway Train, Tango & Cash), is one of the largest productions in Metropolitan Opera history, with 65 solo roles, lavish Russian Imperial balls and a major battle scene — is now as follows:
- Dec. 10: Valery Gergiev cond.; Marina Poplavskaya, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Larisa Shevchenko, Kim Begley, Alexej Markov, Vassily Gerello, Samuel Ramey
- Dec. 13: Valery Gergiev cond.; Marina Poplavskaya, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Larisa Shevchenko, Kim Begley, Alexej Markov, Vassily Gerello, Samuel Ramey
- Dec. 15: Valery Gergiev cond.; Irina Mataeva, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Larisa Shevchenko, Kim Begley, Vasili Ladyuk, Vassily Gerello, Samuel Ramey
- Dec. 18: Valery Gergiev cond.; Marina Poplavskaya, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Larisa Shevchenko, Kim Begley, Alexej Markov, Vassily Gerello, Samuel Ramey
- Dec. 22: Valery Gergiev cond.; Marina Poplavskaya, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Larisa Shevchenko, Kim Begley, Alexej Markov, Vassily Gerello, Samuel Ramey
- Dec. 26: Gianandrea Noseda cond.; Irina Mataeva, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Larisa Shevchenko, Kim Begley, Vasili Ladyuk, Vassily Gerello, Samuel Ramey
- Dec. 28: Gianandrea Noseda cond.; Irina Mataeva, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Larisa Shevchenko, Alexie Steblianko, Vasili Ladyuk, Vassily Gerello, Mikhail Kit
- Jan. 3: Gianandrea Noseda cond.; Irina Mataeva, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Larisa Shevchenko, Kim Begley, Vasili Ladyuk, Vassily Gerello, Samuel Ramey
Information and tickets are available at www.metopera.org.