From Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera by Dave Malloy based on Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, which ran last fall at Ars Nova in New York City.

pierre: There’s a war going on / Out there somewhere / And Andrey isn’t here.

all: There’s a war going on / Out there somewhere / And Andrey isn’t here / And this is all in your program / You are at the opera / Gonna have to study up a little bit / If you wanna keep with the plot / ’Cuz it’s a complicated Russian novel / Everyone’s got nine different…