Moscow, Russia
Bolshoi Theatre
'A Life for the Tsar'
Glinka
Chaliapin as Susanin. Nezhdanova as Antonida.
Rachmaninoff's role
Conductor
Notes
'A Life for the Tsar'. Keldysh (p. 213) provided details of this entirely new production of Glinka's opera, which sought to restore the composer's original intentions, and quoted numerous highly laudatory reviews of Rachmaninoff's conducting. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.