Question: Which novel was the opera at which Artyom Melikhov has his first appearance based?

full_context: Document 1: Pierre Bezukhov: Count (Graf) Pyotr "Pierre" Kirillovich Bezukhov (Russian: Пьер Безу́хов, Пётр Кири́ллович Безу́хов , or "Pierre Bezuhov" according to Rosemary Edmonds' translation) is a central fictional character in Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace". He is the favourite of several illegitimate sons of the wealthy nobleman Count Kirill Vladimirovich Bezukhov, one of the richest people in the Russian Empire. Pierre is best friends with Andrei Bolkonsky. Tolstoy based Pierre on himself more than any other "War and Peace" character.
Document 2: Eugene Onegin (opera): Eugene Onegin (Russian: Евгений Онегин , "Yevgény Onégin"), Op. 24, is an opera ("lyrical scenes") in 3 acts (7 scenes), composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto, organised by the composer himself, very closely follows certain passages in Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse, retaining much of his poetry. Tchaikovsky's friend Konstantin Shilovsky contributed M. Triquet's verses in Act 2, Scene 1, while Tchaikovsky himself arranged the text for Lensky's arioso in Act 1, Scene 1, and almost all of Prince Gremin's aria in Act 3, Scene 1.
Document 3: Petr Migunov: Petr Migunov (Russian: Пётр Викторович Мигунов ; born August 24, 1974) is a Russian opera and classical singer (bass) who graduated from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and was a winner of both the Tokyo and Salzburg Competitions in 1997 and 1999 respectively. He is well known for his performances as the bass soloist in Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" as well as in the requiems of Mozart and Faure. He is also known for his singing of operatic bass roles such as Mephistopheles in "Faust", Prince Gremin in "Eugene Onegin", René in "Iolanta" and Don Iñigo in "L'heure espagnole". In 2000 he performed at both Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center Theater and since that time performs in Russia where he is a soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre.
Document 4: Anna Nechaeva: Anna Nechaeva is Russian soprano singer who was born in Saratov and used attend its Conservatory in 1996. Later she was offered to perform the role of "Tatiana" in "Eugene Onegin" at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and by 2003 became a soloist at the Saint Petersburg Opera where she continued her original role as well as other title roles in Giacomo Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi", Madama Butterfly, and "Suor Angelica". From 2008 to 2011 she became a soloist at the Mikhaylovsky Theatre where she performed roles of "Nedda" in "Pagliacci" and "Rachel" in "The Jews" as well as the title roles of "Rusalka" and of course "Tatiana" in "Eugene Onegin". In 2012, she made her first public appearance with Bolshoi Theatre where she sang in "The Enchantress" portraying "Nastasya" becoming soloist there the same year. After her debut, she performed such roles as "Iolanta" in an opera of the same name as well as "Liu" in "Turandot" and "Yaroslavna" in "Prince Igor".
Document 5: Artyom Melikhov: Artyom Melikhov is a Russian tenor singer who was born in Saint Petersburg. He graduated from both the Glinka Choral School and Saint Petersburg Conservatory where he was under guidance from Yelizaveta Kudryavtseva till 2006. In 2008 under guidance from Valery Gergiev he played a role of one of the Japanese envoys in "Le Rossignol" opera and during the same year played a soloist role in "Chimes" at the Mariinsky Theatre. In 2009 he had his first appearance with Mariinsky Theatre where he played in an opera called "War and Peace". That year was followed by such 2010 debuts as the "The Mystery of the Apostle Paul" in which he sang in a role of "Nero" at the Mariinsky Theatre and another "War and Peace" performance, this time at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In 2011 he became the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers soloist and the same year performed the role of "Ovlur" in an opera called "Prince Igor" following by his appearance in "Dead Souls" and "Ariadne auf Naxos". In May 2013 he was "Rienzi" performer at the Saratov Opera under Alexei Stepanyuk's baton and the same year sang at the Carmina Burana opera after which he went on a tour to Naples where he performed at the Teatro di San Carlo.
Document 6: Francesco Meli: Francesco Meli (born 1980 in Genoa) is an Italian operatic tenor particularly associated with the bel canto repertoire. He began his vocal studies at age 17 with Norma Palacios at the Conservatorio di Musica "Niccolò Paganini" in Genoa. He later became a pupil of mezzo-soprano Franca Mattiucci. In 2002 he debuted in Verdi's "Macbeth" and as the tenor soloist in Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle" and Puccini's "Messa di Gloria", broadcast by RAI (the Italian state broadcasting company) from the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. He has gone on to sing leading roles in La Scala, The Metropolitan Opera, Teatro Regio di Torino, London's Royal Opera House, Opéra National de Lyon, Zurich Opera, and the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. In 2017, he will make his debut as Verdi's Don Carlo at La Scala and as Radames in Salzburg next to Anna Netrebko's Aida.
Document 7: War and Peace (film series): War and Peace (Russian: "Война и мир" , trans. Voyna i mir) is a 1966-67 Soviet war drama film written and directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and a film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel "War and Peace". The film, released in four installments throughout 1966 and 1967, starred Bondarchuk in the leading role of Pierre Bezukhov, alongside Vyacheslav Tikhonov and Ludmila Savelyeva, who depicted Prince Andrei Bolkonsky and Natasha Rostova.
Document 8: Ruslan and Lyudmila (opera): Ruslan and Lyudmila (Russian: Руслан и Людмила , "Ruslan i Lyudmila") is an opera in five acts (eight tableaux) composed by Mikhail Glinka between 1837 and 1842. The opera is based on the 1820 poem of the same name by Alexander Pushkin. The Russian libretto was written by Valerian Shirkov, Nestor Kukolnik and N. A. Markevich, among others. Pushkin's death in the famous duel prevented him from writing the libretto himself as planned.
Document 9: Valery Kritskov: Valery Kritskov is a Russian conductor who used to take conducting lessons at the Moscow Institute of Culture which were taught by Kirill Tikhonov. He graduated from there in 1988 and then worked in Moscow-based Helikon Opera till he got employed with Novaya Opera in 2002. While there, he conducted many operas including Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Snow Maiden" and "The Tsar’s Bride" as well as Anton Rubinstein's "The Demon" and Tchaikovsky's "The Maid of Orleans". He also conducted works by the Italian composers such as Pietro Mascagni's "Cavalleria rusticana" and Ruggero Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" and German such as Richard Wagner's "Lohengrin" and Strauss' "Die Fledermaus" as well as a concert dedicated to Vincenzo Bellini. Besides operas, he is also known for his conducting of the Russian ballet based on works by Tchaikovsky and Sergei Prokofiev as well as German and Austrian ballet composers such as Ludwig Minkus and Charles Gounod. Later on, he became a conductor of the Coppélia ballet which was based by Léo Delibes work and was produced by Imperial Russian Ballet. Currently he has two CD recordings called "Chorus of the Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow" and the "Soloists of the Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow".
Document 10: Yuri Mazurok: Yuri Antónovich Mazurók (Russian Ю́рий Анто́нович Мазуро́к, 18 July 1931 in Kraśnik – April 2006 in Moscow) was a Russian operatic baritone of Ukrainian ethnicity. He sang leading roles with major opera houses internationally, including the Bolshoi Theatre, where he made his debut as Eugene Onegin, to become his most famous part, in 1963, the Canadian Opera Company, the Metropolitan Opera ("La traviata", "Eugene Onegin", and "Tosca"), the Royal Opera, London, and the Vienna State Opera.
Document 11: War and Peace (opera): War and Peace (Op. 91) (Russian: Война и мир , "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, e.g. Prince Mikhail Kutuzov and Napoleon Bonaparte.
Document 12: Sonya Rostova: Sonya Rostova is a character in Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel "War and Peace", and in Sergey Prokofiev's 1955 opera "War and Peace" and Dave Malloy's 2012 musical "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" based on it. She is the orphaned niece of Count and Countess Rostov.
Document 13: Anatole Kuragin: Anatole Vasilyevich Kuragin (Russian: Анатолий (Анатоль) Васильевич Курагин ) is a fictional character in Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace", its various cinematic adaptations, and an operatic adaptation as well. Anatole is Hélène Kuragina's brother and a wild-living soldier. It is rumoured that he has had an incestuous affair with his sister, and he tries to elope with Natasha Rostova despite being secretly married. He loses his leg during the Napoleonic Wars.
Document 14: A Life for the Tsar: A Life for the Tsar (Russian: Жизнь за царя , "Zhizn' za tsarya"), as it is known in English, although in Soviet times its name was "Ivan Susanin" (Russian: Иван Сусанин ) is a "patriotic-heroic tragic opera" in four acts with an epilogue by Mikhail Glinka. The original Russian libretto, based on historical events, was written by Nestor Kukolnik, Egor Fyodorovich (von) Rozen, Vladimir Sollogub and Vasily Zhukovsky. It premiered on 27 November 1836 OS (9 December NS) at the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg. The historical basis of the plot involves Ivan Susanin, a patriotic hero of the early 17th century who gave his life in the expulsion of the invading Polish army for the newly elected Tsar Mikhail, the first of the Romanov dynasty, elected in 1613.
Document 15: Aleksandr Antonenko: Aleksandrs Antoņenko (born in Riga June 26, 1975) is a Latvian tenor who specializes in dramatic repertoire. He debuted on stage as "Prince" in "Rusalka" in 2009. Since then, he has performed in cities such as Baden-Baden, Berlin, Monte Carlo, and Stockholm. Notable appearances include a 2012 appearance in Tosca, as Cavaradossi, at La Scala. In the same year he was seen as Otello at the Royal Opera House in London. In 2013 he appeared in the role of "Radames" in "Aida" at the Zurich Opera House. He followed that performance by appearing as Manrico in Il Trovatore at the Berlin State Opera. He has also performed in "Turandot" as Calaf at La Scala. In 2013, he appeared in the role of "Ismaele" in Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco", conducted by Nicola Luisotti at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan as well as the Splendid Palace in Latvia. In 2014 he announced that he will perform at The Orchestra Hall in "Cavalleria rusticana" and "Pagliacci". He will also appear as the title role in the Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Otello", which will open the Met's 2015-2016 season. The production is notable within American opera circles due to the Met's decision to abandon their tradition of blackface for the role of Otello. Other future performances include "Norma" at the Bavarian State Opera, "Otello" at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu and Zürich's Opernhaus, and "Pagliacci" at the Royal Opera House in London.
ground_truth: "War and Peace"