#chaliapin

Russian Opera singer Feodor Chaliapin on a vintage postcard

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In February 1910, "Don Quichotte", the opera by Jules Massenet, premiered at the Opéra de Monte Carlo and was a great success. On old postcards, we see Fjodor Schaljapin, who sang the title role in the premiere and to whom this work was dedicated. The opera hall around 1900 and the composer.

I ate hamburgsteak with chaliapin sauce. It was excellent!!

I relate to this on a spiritual level

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Opera commentator/historian Michael Scott avers that: "Chaliapin ranks with Caruso and Maria Callas as one of the three greatest singers and most potent and influential artists of the twentieth century."