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

Feodor Chaliapin as Ivan Susanin in Mikhail Glinka | Glinka's A Life for the Tsar

Though opera patronage has decreased in the last century in favor of other arts and media ( such as musicals, cinema, radio, television and recordings ), mass media and the advent of recording have supported the popularity of many famous singers including Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Kirsten Flagstad, Mario Del Monaco, Risë Stevens, Alfredo Kraus, Franco Corelli, Montserrat Caballé, Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson, Nellie Melba, Rosa Ponselle, Beniamino Gigli, Jussi Björling, Feodor Chaliapin, and " The Three Tenors " ( Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras ).

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 )

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.

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.

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 ).

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

By the early years of the twentieth century, the Salle Garnier was to see such great performers as Nellie Melba and Enrico Caruso in La Bohème and Rigoletto ( in 1902 ), and Feodor Chaliapin in the premiere of Jules Massenet's Don Quichotte ( 1910 ).

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

* Jules Massenet-Don Quichotte premiered in Monte Carlo, starring Feodor Chaliapin

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

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

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.

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.

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

* 10 October 1901 — première of the opera The Maid of Pskov ( Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ) with Feodor Chaliapin acting as Ivan the Terrible

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.

By the early years of the twentieth century, the Salle Garnier was to see such great performers as Nellie Melba and Enrico Caruso in La bohème and Rigoletto ( in 1902 ), and Feodor Chaliapin in the premiere of Jules Massenet's Don Quichotte ( 1910 ).

Famous Russian bass singer Feodor Chaliapin performed here in the 1910s and the early 1920s.

Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin ( Russian: < span lang =" ru "> Фёдор Ива ́ нович Шаля ́ пин, Fyodor Ivanovich Shalyapin </ span >; April 12, 1938 ) was a Russian opera singer.

However, his given name is most usually rendered as Feodor or Fyodor, and his surname is most usually seen as Chaliapin.

Upon Ivan's death, he was succeeded by his simple-minded son Feodor.

The death of Ivan's childless son Feodor was followed by a period of civil wars and foreign intervention known as the " Time of Troubles " ( 1606 – 13 ).

One of Kobyla's sons, Feodor, a boyar in the boyar duma of Dmitri Donskoi, was nicknamed Koshka ( cat ).

Among his children by Anastasia, the elder ( Ivan ) was murdered by the tsar in a quarrel ; the younger Feodor, a pious and lethargic prince, inherited the throne upon his father's death.

The family's leader, Feodor Nikitich Romanov, was exiled to the Antoniev Siysky Monastery and forced to take monastic vows with the name Filaret.

Upon his death, there was a period of dynastic struggles between his children by his first wife Maria Ilyinichna Miloslavskaya ( Feodor III, Sofia Alexeevna, Ivan V ) and his son by his second wife Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, the future Peter the Great.

Count Feodor Petrovich Tolstoy ( 1783 – 1873 ), sympathetically mentioned by Pushkin in Eugene Onegin, was one of the most fashionable Russian drawers and painters of the 1820s.

Count Feodor Ivanovich Tolstoy ( 1782 – 1846 ) was a notorious drunkard, gastronome, and duellist.

Fryderyk Skowroński, renamed Feodor Samuilovich Skavronsky, was created a Count of the Russian Empire on 5 January 1727 and was married twice: to N, a Lithuanian woman, and to Ekaterina Rodionovna Saburova, without having children by either of them .< ref >

Boris was the son of Feodor Ivanovich Godunov " Krivoy " (" One-eyed ") ( died, c. 1568 – 1570 ) and his wife Stepanida Ivanovna.

On his deathbed, Ivan appointed a council consisting of Godunov, Feodor Nikitich Romanov, Vasili Shuiski and others, to guide his son and successor, for Feodor was feeble both in mind and body ; " he took refuge from the dangers of the palace in devotion to religion ; and though his people called him a saint, they recognized that he lacked the iron to govern men.

This left the Tsardom to be passed to Ivan's's younger son, the weak and intellectually disabled Feodor I. Ivan's legacy is complex: he was an able diplomat, a patron of arts and trade, founder of the Russia's first Print Yard, but he is also remembered for his paranoiac suspiciousness and cruel persecution of nobility.

Proponents point to the fact that the Mongol court was frequented by Russian princes, notably Yaroslavl's Feodor the Black, who boasted his own ulus near Sarai, and Novgorod's Alexander Nevsky, the sworn brother ( or anda ) of Batu's successor Sartaq Khan.

Upon the death of Feodor III of Russia in April 1682, their enemies insinuated that the Naryshkins had Ivan strangled, thus fomenting the Moscow Uprising of 1682, which was put to an end only after Ivan was demonstrated by his relatives to the furious crowd.

Fyodor ( Theodore ) I Ivanovich ( or Feodor I Ioannovich ; 31 May 1557 – 16 / 17 January ( NS ) 1598 ) was the last Rurikid Tsar of Russia ( 1584 – 1598 ), son of Ivan IV ( The Terrible ) and Anastasia Romanovna.

Being unhealthy and, by some reports, intellectually disabled, Feodor was only the nominal ruler, having his duties handed over to his wife's brother and trusted minister Boris Godunov, who would later succeed Feodor as tsar.

Feodor was a simple minded man who took little interest in politics, and was never considered a candidate for the Russian throne until the death of his elder brother Ivan Ivanovich.

Feodor was succeeded as tsar by Godunov, who had for many years ruled in Feodor's name.