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Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin was a Russian opera singer. Possessing a deep and expressive bass voice, he enjoyed an important international career at major opera houses and is often credited with establishing the tradition of naturalistic acting in his chosen art form.
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entertainment · Russian opera singer (1873–1938) · singer · opera singer · actor · dancer · writer · also Feodor Chaliapin, Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin, Fiodor Ivanovich Shalyapin, Feodor Shaliapin, Feodor Ivanovich Shaliapin, Fyodor Ivanovich Shalyapin
Born 1 February 1873 · Died 12 April 1938 · Q189164
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Auteur: Dmitri Sadovnikov (1847 - 1883). Chanteur: Fédor Chaliapine (1873 - 1938). · Public domain
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“is a Spanish priest. It is a type I know well. He is not the modern American priest, clean and well-groomed; he is dirty and unkempt, he is a beast, and this is what I make him, a comic beast.”
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His complete recordings were issued on 13 CDs by Marston Records
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By Nina Froud and James Hanley, as Chaliapin: An autobiography as told to Maxim Gorky (Stein and Day, New York), and included an appendix of original correspondence including a section relating to Gorky
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Died 1938-04-12.
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Was suffering from a toothache, and a hotel chef devised a way to cook a steak to be extra tender for him
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Was of the famous The Song of the Volga Boatmen
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Chaliapin published Man and Mask (Alfred A
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Chaliapin published a memoir, Man and Mask: Forty Years in the Life of a Singer
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Chaliapin married Petsold in 1927 in Paris.
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Giving a series of recitals which were highly acclaimed
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When he performed in New York, his piano accompanist was a young Harry Lubin, later to become a composer of music for the television series The Outer Limits
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And sang there with immense success for eight seasons, New York's audiences having grown more broad-minded since 1907
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While he was in the south of France, he was urged to write such a work by a French journalist who hoped to ghost-write it
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As a series of articles in the journal Letopis
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Chaliapin was introduced to London and Paris by the entrepreneur Sergei Diaghilev (1872–1929), at which point he began giving well-received solo recitals in which he sang traditional Russian folk songs as well as more s
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She had three daughters with Chaliapin: Marfa (1910–2003), Marina (1912–2009), and Dasya (1921–1977).
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And had six children: Igor, Boris (1904–1979), Irina, Lidia, and twins Feodor Jr
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The Chaliapin family moved to the village of Ametyevo (also Ometyevo, or the Ometyev settlements, now a settlement within Kazan) behind the area of Sukonnaya Sloboda, and settled in a small house
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Born 1873-02-01.
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