Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood, — Stanislavski on Opera.

NY, Theatre Arts, (1975). G in G DJ ex-library. Back ep partially removed. DJ edgewear. Stanislavski once planned to become an opera singer, was trained in voice & music. Just after the October Revolution when the Bolshoi Opera in Moscow wanted to start a training studio to eliminate old opera cliches, Stanislavski was put in charge of it and it eventually became the Stanislavski Opera Studio which gave its own performances and had a revolutionary effect on Russian opera & elsewhere. This book aims to revive those lessons with a day-by-day account of the Studio's classes & rehearsals in Stanislavski's own words taken down by Rumyantsev, one of the young singers involved.