Chaliapin
Americannoun
noun
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And when Czar Nicholas II signed a manifesto promising liberal reforms, opera singer Fyodor Chaliapin got up on a table, sang folk songs and passed around his hat asking for contributions for workers.
From Washington Times • Jul. 23, 2019
Back in 1984, the bass Feodor Chaliapin was dug up in Paris, where he had died in 1938, to be re-interred in Moscow.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 21, 2015
In the saloon on her 25th birthday, the stewards arranged a celebration, and she was serenaded by the Russian operatic bass Feodor Chaliapin and the great violinist Mischa Elman.
From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2014
He loved the guitar artistry of Andrés Segovia and the singing of Feodor Chaliapin.
From The Guardian • Dec. 12, 2012
London, 31, is a bass-baritone, and to those who remembered the majestic Boris of the late great Feodor Chaliapin, his voice seemed a bit light.
From Time Magazine Archive
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