Word: chaliapin
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...basis of Cervantes' Don Quixote, cut and pieced by librettist Henri Cain, Jules Massenet wrote an opera, wrote it seeing Feodor Chaliapin, big Russian bass, craftiest of impersonators, as the noble moulting Don Quichotte de la Mancha, Baron, Duke and Knight of the Rueful Countenance...
...Feodor Chaliapin, large Russian bass, soon to tour Europe and the U. S. with his own opera company in the Barber of Seville, has a melody of his own running through his head. Last week in Detroit he hummed a few measures of it to pressmen; said that he would develop it into an operetta, take it on tour, perhaps, after the Barber...
...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...
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...
...interest, and by paradox, his fame has made his worth recognized. Could he, some wonder, have achieved his phenomenal success simply on the merits of his voice? Samuel Chotzinoff in the New York World: "If Roland Hayes were a white man instead of a Negro, it is doubtful. , , ." Feodor Chaliapin sang the title role of Boito's Mefistofele at the Metropolitan for the 32nd time...