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Satan loomed tall as a tower; his eye was a jewel, his voice was thunder. On the stage of the Chicago Auditorium he stood, for the first time this year. He was Feodor Chaliapin, giant Russian basso, appearing in Boito's Mefistofele. Louder than ever boomed the great voice; the mountainous man, lithe for all his bulk, stalked, the incarnation of sinister and engaging evilness upon the boards. In one of his greatest roles he outdid himself. He suited his bones to the music of his throat, executed a physical fugue; in the Brocken scene, he boiled, surged like...
...stage of the Manhattan was the scene also of the first appearance in the U. S., this season, of Feodor Chaliapin, incomparable Russian basso. He brought with him all his mannerisms, smiled irresistibly on his audience, wielded his lorgnette (with a gold handle) and his handkerchief and sang with dramatic power and genius which has never been equaled...
...lleas et Mélisande, Auber's Fra Diavolo, Meyerbeer's Prophet, Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. Entirely new stage sets have been built for several of these. Among the singers there will appear Mary Garden (of course), Louise Homer, Florence Macbeth, Edith Mason, Charles Hackett, Feodor Chaliapin...
Sunday afternoon in Symphony Hall, Feodor Chaliapin, basso, greatest of living opera singers and actor as well as singer. As usual, he will announce his program from the stage. Rudolf Polk, violinist, and Feedor Koenemann, planist, will assist...
Having received the idolatrous praise of Chicago, Feodor Chaliapin, Russian giant, bestrode the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, last week?first in the opera, Boris Godunov, made famous by him, and then as a ruffianly and ill-behaved Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust...