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Dmitri Tcherniakov directs War and Peace in Munich (***½)

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Mar 06, 2023
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Olga Kulchynska als Natasja © Wilfried Hösl

Auteur : Jos Hermans

When he attends the premiere of Peace, the first part of what he considers to be his magnum opus, in the war year of 1945, on June 7, Sergei Prokofiev is in fact deathly ill. Migraines and skyrocketing blood pressure have been making his life a hell for several years after an unfortunate fal…

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