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...Scarlatti: Sonata in F for Recorder, oboe, violin and harpsichord (W); Stravinsky: Concerto for piano and wind instruments (D); Moussorgsky: Boris Godounov (Cap); Ravel: Sonata for violin and piano...
Ezio Pinza, as Fiodor Chaliapin, the greatest basso of all time, seems to bring back some of the grandeur of the eccentric, boisterous Russian's voice. Singing the Coronation scene from Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov, he booms forth with amazing volume and gusto. Excerpts from Gounod's Faust also receive the same resounding treatment...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov, with Ezio Pinza, Risë Stevens, Richard Tucker...
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...
Died. Feodor Ivanovitch Chaliapin, 65, famed Russian basso (Boris Godounov); of pernicious anemia; in Paris. A prodigious eater and drinker, he disliked Communism and his four estates in Russia were confiscated by the Soviet Government...