The experience of Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center in the Russian system of supplementary professional education

Abstract

The article examines the unique experience of training vocalists of the Opera Singing Center in the system of additional education in Russia from the moment of its opening in 2002 to 2012. The main ideas of this unique educational strategy for its implementation are revealed as GP Vishnevskaya saw them. The description of the traditions underlying the Center’s Program involves the earlier programs of the La Scala theater, the principles of training a singeractor formulated by K.S. Stanislavsky and the outstanding opera director B.A. Vishnevskaya created her best opera performances on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia. The comparative approach allows us to talk about the general and specific in the line of succession of the author’s Program of the Center. In a highly competitive professional environment, the experience of comprehensive training of young singers for productive work in the opera house as a soloist, according to the author, has the prospect of further study and development.