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...announcing Chaliapin's forthcoming operatic venture (TIME, Dec. 28, p. 24), you mention the dear basso as the Barber in Rossini's musical comedy. Chaliapin plays Don Basilio, the Music-master, not the Barber...
Powdery snowflakes whispered down through the dusk. The wind drowsed. Out of a cavernous shed on a field in Belleville, Ill., a great grey shape slid out of lurking and moved off through the gathering night, purring a basso profundo that swelled to a dull roar as a white eye and a red in the creature's belly were seen to rise from the earth, twinkle slowly higher and disappear...
...Basso Feodor Chaliapin announced that next year he will have his own opera company. "Who will be in it?" asked the skeptical. "Wait and see," replied shrewd S. Hurok, Chaliapin Manager. "Where will it play?" they asked. "In larger U. S. cities, in Cuba and Mexico," answered S. Hurok. "What operas will it give?" "The Barber of Seville" boomed Chaliapin, the Barber...
...Moscow the Soviet press roundly scored famed basso Feodor Chaliapin for having "forsaken" Russia to "sing in the lands of Mammon." Numerous Soviet journals gave space to the following "confession" allegedly made by M. Chaliapin to "a member of the Moscow Theatrical Guild, who interviewed him recently at Paris before he left for New York...
...Manhattan. Basso Feodor Chaliapin came back to the Metropolitan as a guest artist in Boris, sang superbly, blew kisses to the gallery from the tips of his enormous fingers, went away to drink a glass of Chianti with friends...