Stanislavski On Opera

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

"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

• 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;