Fyodor Chalyapin was one of the most famous opera singers ever to live. During the Gold Age of opera in the beginning of the 20th century, Chalyapin was the rare exemplary bass in an art dominated by tenors. Chalyapin was a self-taught singer, receiving nearly no formal training, and still managed to be remembered to this day as the archetypical Boris Godunov.
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Date: 2005-04-18 08:53 am (UTC)