Roles
| Role | Voice type | Premiere cast Moscow 1945 |
Premiere cast Leningrad 1946 |
Premiere cast Florence 1953 |
Premiere cast Leningrad 1955 |
Premiere cast NBC TV 1957 |
Premiere cast Moscow 1957 |
Premiere cast Moscow 1959 |
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| Version | ||||||||
| 9 scenes Concert performance |
8 scenes Stage première |
11 scenes |
11 scenes |
13 scenes |
13 scenes (cut) |
13 scenes |
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| Natalya (Natasha) Rostova | soprano | M Nadion | Tatiana Lavrova | Rosanna Carteri | Tatiana Lavrova | Helena Scott | Valentina Kayevchenko | Galina Vishnevskaya |
| Count Pyotr (Pierre) Bezukhov | tenor | F Fedotov | Oles Chishko | Franco Corelli | Glebov | David Lloyd | Vladimir Petrov | |
| Prince Andrei Bolkonsky | baritone | Andrei Ivanov | Sergei Shaposhnikov | Ettore Bastianini | Sergei Shaposhnikov | Morley Meredith | Shchabinsky | Yevgeny Kibkalo |
| Field-Marshal Prince Mikhail Kutuzov | bass | Alexander Pirogov | Butyagin | Italo Tajo | Butyagin | Kenneth Smith | Alexander Pirogov | Alexei Krivchenya |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | baritone | Modestov | Leon Lishner | Pavel Lisitsian | ||||
| Count Ilya Rostov, Natasha's father | bass | Italo Tajo | Chester Watson | |||||
| Hélène Bezukhova, Pierre's wife | mezzo-soprano | A Vassilieva | Cesy Broggini | Baskova | Gloria Lane | Irina Arkhipova | ||
| Prince Anatole Kuragin, her brother | tenor | F Oganian | Androukovich | Mirto Picchi | Androukovich | Davis Cunningham | Aleksei Maslennikov | |
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