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...will deny that towering Feodor Chaliapin is an imposing actor, an irreproachable singer of opera. Likewise, many have found him imperiously temperamental. Last week as the sardonic, demonic Mephistopheles of Faust he poured out his ruddy bass to the burghers, dames and daughters of Vienna in the Vienna Opera House. But frowns of annoyance danced on his brow; he found the time too slow for his impetuous taste. Over the bobbing heads of the first violins he glared meaningfully at Conductor Karl Alwin, tried vainly to force a faster tempo. Suddenly the audience gasped, the musicians faltered. The brawny arms...
First instalments of Feodor Chaliapin's autobiography were syndicated last week in U. S. newspapers. He wrote that he could remember when he was five, living in East Central Russia in a hut costing a ruble and a half per month.* His father, a clerk, "was very fond of drink and on one occasion did not come home for two days. . . . After a time he became intoxicated every pay day" and beat Mrs. Chaliapin...
...native Atlantans made their debut last week with the Metropolitan Opera Company in the first performance there of Massenet's Don Quichotte, second offering in the annual week of opera. One was a proud, polite horse chosen to carry Feodor Chaliapin, chivalric Knight of the Rueful Countenance. One was a scrubby, taupe donkey chosen for Giuseppe de Luca, the faithful squire. Came the second act with the Don on the quest of his lady's necklace. Came the scene where he sees windmills through the mist, takes them for menacing giants, mounts Rosinante and charges. Rosinante played his part well...
...fill some 30 Pullman cars?were packed off on two special trains for Atlanta* for the annual week of opera. Southerners socially and musically inclined were ready for them, flocked from all over the countryside to hear Aida, with Rosa Ponselle and Giovanni Martinelli; Don Quichotte, with Feodor Chaliapin; La Bohême, with Lucrezia Bori, Beniamino Gigli, Antonio Scotti; Pagliacci, with Mary Lewis, Armand Tokatyan, Lawrence Tibbett; Jewels of the Madonna, with Florence Easton and Martinelli; Lucia, with Marion Talley; Tannhauser, with Rudolf Laubenthal; II Trovatore...
...Last week, at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, Chaliapin made his first (U. S.) appearance* as the Don, proved himself once more a master interpreter, able to grasp what Massenet had been temperamentally unable to?the irony, the humor, the pathos, of the first Don Quixote. On he came, splendidly, madly scattering largesse, singing to his love Dulcinea, who knew him only for a seedy dolt who roamed the countryside. Off he went, for her, to find her necklace stolen by a band of brigands; saw windmills in the clearing mist take shapes of giants making wild gestures with their...