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Sopranos Lucrezia Bori, Alma Gluck, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Luisa Tetrazzini; Tenors Richard Crooks, Tito Schipa; Baritone Antonio Scotti; Basso Feodor Chaliapin; Pianist Josef Hofmann...
...herself with whiskey and champagne, left a confetti-like whirl of bouncing checks wherever she went; and Loie Fuller, whose tour was supposed to be keyed to the ludicrous U. S. progress of her friend Queen Marie of Rumania. Other attractions launched in the U. S. by Hurok: Basso Feodor Chaliapin, Contralto Marian Anderson, Dancer Mary Wigman, the Vienna Choir Boys, the Piccoli Theatre, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Hindu Dancer Uday Shan...
...velvet curtain of Philadelphia's elegant Academy of Music (built in 1857 and famed for its acoustics) lives a small brown bat. During Metropolitan Opera visits to the Academy, the bat nearly flew into the broad mouth of Tenor Beniamino Gigli; once it flew rings around Basso Feodor Chaliapin. Last week, by lying low, the bat muffed a punnish chance-a performance of Johann Strauss's bubbling, rollicking The Bat (Die Fledermaus), by the best troupe Philadelphia has had in years...
Greatest impersonation of the late Basso Feodor Chaliapin was the fear-racked 17th-Century Tsar in Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov. In 1908, Chaliapin was the first man to sing Boris outside of Russia, in 1929 the last to sing it at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Other bassos -notably the Metropolitan's Adamo Didur, the Chicago Opera's Vanni Marcoux-donned the wig and beard of Boris, but they were haunted by the Chaliapin performance, just as in the opera the Tsar is haunted in his biggest scenes by the wraith of the young heir...
SONG OF THE VOLGA BOATMEN, and MOUSSORGSKY: SONG OF THE FLEA (Feodor Ivanovitch Chaliapin; Victor). Death two months ago of the greatest singing actor of his generation prompted Victor to re-issue these two lighter items on a memorial disc. Made when Basso Chaliapin was vocally past his prime...