Chaliapin
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
At 39 he has a voice that may lack the steely edge of, say, Chaliapin, Kipnis or even Pinza but compensates with its oval warmth and human shadings.
From Time Magazine Archive
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