Mask and Psyche (é maska kai é psyché) in Greek
Subtitle: Greek Translation
Publisher: Lemvos Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Athens Greece
Language: gre
Number of pages: 493
ISBN-13: 9786188095816
Description: Feodor Chaliapin’s life unites many elements and this is the reason that it is so fascinating. One of the greatest bass singers humanity has come to know, who apart from the quality of his voice and his form, has established the foundations for yet another medium of expression which is not limited or contained within the bounds of song. Chaliapin created a theatrical event, something similar to what Callas had achieved; from a singer with minimal stage experience he rose to singer/actor.
Opera for Chaliapin was a theatrical art, an art of stage craft, an event set in drama, the development of a character. The music of the Opera was for Chaliapin not an autonomous art in itself but rather a medium of inspiration serving the Act or Praxis and Speech or Logos. Voice becomes an instrument by which is conveyed the adventure of the living human spirit of the particular character as it assumes its existence under very precise circumstances. 
In his book Mask and Soul (published in English as Man and Mask) all the requirements for the art of an actor-singer are exemplified, as are all the sides of a composite creation: ethical questions, means of synthesis for composite fine media, artistic dogma, even practical, perceptive and precious advice.
This is the first ever translation of Chaliapin’s work in Greek by the experienced translator Eleni Katsioli. Translation was achieved directly from the Russian original (published in 1932)