Stanislavski On Opera

by Constantin Stanislavski, Pavel Rumyantsev

Overview

Best known for his fundamental work on acting, Stanislavski was deeply drawn to the challenges of opera. His brilliant chapters here on Russian classics—Boris Gudonov and The Queen of Spades among them—as well as La Boheme will amaze and delight lovers of opera. Also includes 12 musical examples.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878305520
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/24/1998
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	374
Sales rank:	278,133
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood is the translator on Stanislavski's An Actor Prepares, Building a Character and Creating a Role, all published by Routledge.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 In the Opera Studio; Chapter 2 Eugene Onegin; Chapter 3 The Tsar's Bride; Chapter 4 La Bohème; Chapter 5 A May Night; Chapter 6 Boris Godunov; Chapter 7 The Queen of Spades; Chapter 8 The Golden Cockerel;

Editorial Reviews

"This welcome reissue is a prime document of twentieth-century opera production. This is essential reading for anyone concerned with the modern history of opera as drama." — Opera News
"Stanislavski on Opera is the single most important and timely book I know of on the subject. Important, for its sense of opera as an essentially truthful expression of the human condition; timely, because its pages reassert these values in the face of the symbolic wasteland now passing for the experience of opera on our international stages. This is a classic"." — —Frank Corsaro

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