Chaliapin
Americannoun
noun
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And when Czar Nicholas II signed a manifesto promising liberal reforms, opera singer Fyodor Chaliapin got up on a table, sang folk songs and passed around his hat asking for contributions for workers.
From Washington Times • Jul. 23, 2019
Back in 1984, the bass Feodor Chaliapin was dug up in Paris, where he had died in 1938, to be re-interred in Moscow.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 21, 2015
He loved the guitar artistry of Andrés Segovia and the singing of Feodor Chaliapin.
From The Guardian • Dec. 12, 2012
Stravinsky wrote a short arrangement of the popular Russian folk song in 1917 for woodwind and brass ensemble and arranged it in the 1920s for the Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin.
From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2012
At 39 he has a voice that may lack the steely edge of, say, Chaliapin, Kipnis or even Pinza but compensates with its oval warmth and human shadings.
From Time Magazine Archive
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