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Chaliapin

American  
[shahl-yah-pin, shuh-lyah-pyin] / ʃɑlˈyɑ pɪn, ʃʌˈlyɑ pyɪn /

noun

  1. Fëdor Ivanovich 1873–1938, Russian operatic bass.


Chaliapin British  
/ ʃaˈljapin /

noun

  1. Fyodor Ivanovich (ˈfjɔdər iˈvanəvitʃ). 1873–1938, Russian operatic bass singer

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Her warm, even tone and clear diction became associated indelibly with the composer’s amorous page in the way that Kirsten Flagstad was with Isolde and Feodor Chaliapin with Boris Godunov.

From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2023

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

He loved the guitar artistry of Andrés Segovia and the singing of Feodor Chaliapin.

From The Guardian • Dec. 12, 2012

Boris Chaliapin flew to France to paint Guy de Rothschild in an appropriate setting�against a sumptuous red silk brocade wall in the 18th century Rothschild town house in Paris.

From Time Magazine Archive