Musicology Annotation << Back Problems of Actualization of F.I. Shalyapin’s Theoretical Heritage in the 21st Century Nikolay I. Kuznetsov The article covers problems of actualization of F.I. Shalyapin’s theoretical heritage in the 21st century. In the second part of the 20th century professor B.A. Pokrovsky, the famous Russian opera stage director and teacher, in his epochal article «While Reading Shalyapin’s Books» (the journal of «The Soviet Music» No. 12, 1968) found out the theoretical heritage of the great Russian opera actor F.I. Shalyapin directed to music theatrical art. B.A. Pokrovsky marked that Shalyapin «has discovered and affi rmed the principles of opera acting and formulated his creative searches and achievements in defi nite terms». But at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries there appeared some problems concerning the actualization of F.I. Shalyapin’s theoretical heritage. The article contains the arguments for the topicality of using Shalyapin’s «working stage terms» for training conservatoire students on the skills of opera actor and for making good use of those at practice in the process of creating of the operatic stage role. With a view to improve the quality of training conservatoire students the author substantiates the necessity of amplifying the educational program o the actor’s skills with Shalyapin’s working stage terms in addition to «Stanislavsky’s system». Keywords: opera actor’s skills, «Stanislavsky’s system», Shalyapin’s working stage terms, problem of actualization, quality of training conservatoire students, educational program on the opera actor’s skills. Contacts: Е-mail: vosenzuk@yandex.ru Pp. 17-23.