Few will deny that towering Feodor Chaliapin is an imposing actor, an irreproachable singer of opera. Likewise, many have found him imperiously temperamental. Last week as the sardonic, demonic ...
A monument to the great Russian opera singer Feodor Chaliapin was unveiled in the city of Kirov, Russia. The opening ceremony was attended by Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, the ...
Greatest impersonation of the late Basso Feodor Chaliapin was the fear-racked 17th-Century Tsar in Moussorgsky’s Boris Godounov. In 1908, Chaliapin was the first man to sing Boris outside of Russia, ...
* Feodor Chaliapin Jr., an American actor best known for his role as the dog-walking grandfather in the 1987 movie “Moonstruck,” died Sept. 17 after a brief illness at his home in Rome, where he had ...