Chaliapin
Americannoun
noun
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The dress survived, repurposed for a night at the opera — “The Barber of Seville, Chaliapin sang,” Ms. Harley said, remembering the famous Russian Opera singer.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2022
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
He now lies in the same cemetery as Chaliapin.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 21, 2015
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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