Chaliapin made his first appearance at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 25 May 1926.

In 1913, Chaliapin was introduced to London and Paris by the brilliant entrepreneur Sergei Diaghilev, at which point he began giving well-received solo recitals in which he sang traditional Russian folk songs as well as more serious fare.

Gorky, who was his intimate friend and was then living in Capri, persuaded Chaliapin to stay with him there and with the help of a secretary a great deal of information was taken down which Gorky fashioned into a long manuscript, published in Russia in 1917 as a series of articles in the journal Letopis.

He often attributed his penchant for drama to his student days when he accepted an engagement playing during the intermissions in recitals by the great Russian basso, Feodor Chaliapin.

During this time he attained a working knowledge of Russian and attended opera performances in which Feodor Chaliapin performed.

Rachmaninoff taught him much about musicianship, including how to analyze a music score, and insisted that Chaliapin learn not only his own roles but also all the other roles in the operas in which he was slated to appear.

Chaliapin starred in all three versions, each of which used the same script, sets, and costumes, but different supporting casts.

Chaliapin possessed a high-lying bass voice with an unmistakable timbre which recorded clearly.

" In a letter from November 1910 to the editor of Utro Rossii, the publication which supposedly quoted the above remarks and which attributes them to Rachmaninoff, the composer categorically denies the quotation and wrote " The article publishes without my knowledge words of mine about the Bolshoi Theater and Chaliapin ... I said that we often have regrettable confusion backstage at the Bolshoi Theater ... I also said that I had heard rumors that since Chaliapin had been appointed régisseur of those operas in which he sings, there is more quiet backstage.

Under the name " Isaac Ackerman " he wrote a biopic screenplay about Chaliapin, in which he was to play the lead and also a young Nelson Eddy, but it was never produced.

There are also excerpts from an unproduced movie script written by Nelson on the life of Feodor Chaliapin, in which he had planned to play dual roles — Chaliapin and himself.

Tired of living in his father's shadow in Paris, Chaliapin struck out on his own, moving to Hollywood to begin his film career-first in silent movies, in which his then-heavy accent would not be heard in the small bit parts he played.

Chaliapin is perhaps most remembered by modern audiences in the classic The Name of the Rose ( 1986 ), in which he played the venerable Jorge de Burgos.

In one of his briefest roles, Chaliapin dies in the arms of Gary Cooper in the opening scenes of For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ), which was based on Ernest Hemingway's 1940 novel.

When Feodor Chaliapin refused to sing the part of Dosifei in any other orchestration than Rimsky-Korsakov's, Diaghilev's company employed a mixture of orchestrations which did not prove successful.

Other notable premieres were given in Prague in 1899, and in Paris in 1909, with a Sergei Diaghilev production featuring Feodor Chaliapin as Galitsky and Maria Kuznetsova as Yaroslavna.

The second performance was Thomas ' Hamlet with the baritone Titta Ruffo During the inaugural season seventeen operas were performed with famous stars such as Ruffo, Feodor Chaliapin in Boito's Mefistofele, Antonio Paoli in Verdi's Otello, and the world

In the early 20th century, revivals of the opera were associated particularly with the famous Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin: he sang the title role on the occasion of his first appearance outside Russia ( La Scala, Milan, 16 March 1901 ) and also on his North American debut ( Metropolitan Opera, New York, 20 November 1907 ).

His greatest successes were Manon in 1884, Werther in 1892, and Thaïs in 1894. Notable later operas were Le jongleur de Notre-Dame, produced in 1902, and Don Quichotte, produced in Monte Carlo 1910, with the legendary Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin in the title-role.

In the same year, the famous Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin and Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with conductor Ernest Ansermet were guest performers.

It then regularly hosted evening festivities, and Johann Strauss II ( 1856 ), Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann and Feodor Chaliapin were among the celebrities who performed there.

Opera stars Rose Bampton, Lucrezia Bori, Feodor Chaliapin, Jon Crain, Richard Crooks, Miguel Fleta, Emilio de Gogorza, Amelita Galli-Curci, Mary Garden, Beniamino Gigli, Helen Jepson, Maria Jeritza, Giovanni Martinelli, Nino Martini, John McCormack, James Melton, Grace Moore, Jan Peerce, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Elisabeth Rethberg, Gladys Rice, Tito Schipa, Gladys Swarthout, John Charles Thomas, and Lawrence Tibbett were all conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret.

* 1873 – Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass ( d. 1938 )

In 1907 he presented five concerts of Russian music in Paris, and in 1908 mounted a production of Boris Godunov, starring Feodor Chaliapin, at the Paris Opera.

* February 13 – Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass opera singer ( d. 1938 )

London saw the same production in 1914 conducted by Thomas Beecham, again with Chaliapin as Galitsky.

He had begun work on music for a film, Adventures of Don Quixote ( 1933 ) from Miguel de Cervantes's celebrated novel, featuring the Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin and directed by G. W. Pabst.

Using texts by F. I. Chaliapin, V. Doroshevitch, C. Pepoli ( 2000 ).

File: Gorky et Schaliapin late19thcent. jpg | Gorky with Feodor Chaliapin

File: Russian Writers 1. jpg | Gorky ( bottom left ), with fellow members of the Moscow literary group Sreda ; From top left: Skitalets, Chaliapin, and Chirikov ; from bottom left: Gorky, Andreyev, Bunin, and Teleshov.

During his career, Toscanini worked with such legendary artists as Enrico Caruso, Feodor Chaliapin, Ezio Pinza, Jussi Björling, and Geraldine Farrar.

* February 13 — Feodor Chaliapin, operatic bass ( d. 1938 )

Again, many of the greatest singers in the world appeared at the Met under Gatti-Casazza's leadership, including Rosa Ponselle, Elisabeth Rethberg, Maria Jeritza, Frances Alda, Frida Leider, Amelita Galli-Curci, Lily Pons, Jacques Urlus, Giovanni Martinelli, Beniamino Gigli, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Lauritz Melchior, Titta Ruffo, Giuseppe De Luca, Pasquale Amato, Lawrence Tibbett, Friedrich Schorr, Feodor Chaliapin, Jose Mardones, Tancredi Pasero and Ezio Pinza — among many others.

Feodor Chaliapin, Leonid Sobinov, Antonina Nezhdanova, Ksenia Derzhinskaia and other outstanding opera singers have performed at the Bolshoi.

His final big-screen appearance was in 1953's Tonight We Sing, playing the famous Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin in a movie biography of impresario Sol Hurok.

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