Moscow, Russia
Bolshoi Theatre
A Life for the Tsar
Glinka
Chaliapin as Susanin. Nezhdanova as Antonida.
Rachmaninoff's role
Conductor
Notes
Keldysh (p. 213) provides details of this entirely new production of Glinka's opera, which sought to restore the composer's original work, and quotes numerous and highly laudatory reviews of Rachmaninoff's conducting.