Which opera by Sergei Prokofiev is based on a novel by Leo Tolstoy?
War and Peace (opera) opera) re-used music that Prokofiev had written for Eisenstein's film "Ivan the Terrible". War and Peace (opera) War and Peace (Op. 91) (, "Voyna i mir") is an opera in two parts (an Epigraph and 13 scenes), sometimes arranged as five acts, by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer and Mira Mendelson, based on the novel "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy. Although Tolstoy's work is classified as a novel, the 1812 invasion of Russia by the French was based on real-life events, and some real-life people appear as characters in both the novel and the opera,
Leo Tolstoy the Roses Were" (1913), and "Leo Tolstoy", directed by and starring Sergei Gerasimov in 1984. There is also a famous lost film of Tolstoy made a decade before he died. In 1901, the American travel lecturer Burton Holmes visited Yasnaya Polyana with Albert J. Beveridge, the U.S. senator and historian. As the three men conversed, Holmes filmed Tolstoy with his 60-mm movie camera. Afterwards, Beveridge's advisers succeeded in having the film destroyed, fearing that documentary evidence of a meeting with the Russian author might hurt Beveridge's chances of running for the U.S. presidency. Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (;