Chaliapin biography composer

Fedor Chaliapin years of his life: February 13-April 12, a native of a peasant family, Fedor Chaliapin performed in the most prestigious theaters of the world-Bolshoi, Mariinsky, Metro-Opera. The critic Vladimir Stasov called him a “great artist”, and Maxim Gorky - a separate “era of Russian art” from the church choir to the Mariinsky Theater “If everyone knew what fire smolders in me and fades like a candle ...” said Fedor Chaliapin to friends, convincing them to be a sculptor.

Being already a famous opera performer, Fedor Ivanovich painted a lot, was engaged in painting, sculpted. The talent of the painter was manifested even on stage. Chaliapin was a “make -up virtuoso” and created stage portraits, adding a bright picture to the powerful sound of the bass. The singer seemed to sculpt his face, contemporaries compared his manner of making makeup with the canvases of Korovin and Vrubel.

For example, the image of Boris Godunov changed from the picture to the picture, wrinkles and gray hair were manifested. Chaliapin -metistopheles in Milan caused a real sensation. Fedor Ivanovich was one of the first to make up not only his face, but also his hands and even the body. The artists, the chorists, even the workers surrounded me, ahai and admired, like the children, touched their fingers, felt, and seeing that my muscles were painted, they were completely delighted.

” Fedor Chaliapin, and yet the talent of the sculptor, like the artist’s talent, served as a framing of an amazing voice. He sang Chaliapin from childhood - a beautiful disc. The native of the peasant family was still engaged in the church choir in his native Kazan and performed at the village holidays. At 10, Fedya first visited the theater and dreamed of music.

He comprehended the shoe, turning, carpentry, binding art, but only the art of opera beckoned. Although Chaliapin worked in the Zemstvo Directorate of the Kazan County as a clerk since the age of 14, he gave all his free time to the theater, leaving the stage in the statists. He worked as a loader, a hook, starving, but waited for his stellar hour. One of the baritones on the eve of the performance fell ill, and the role of the steward in the opera Monyushko "Galki" went to Khorist Chaliapin.

Although the debutant sat past the chair during the performance, the entrepreneur Semenov-Samarsky was moved by the performance itself. New parties appeared and confidence in the theater future. The whole subsequent career, however, I vigilantly followed the chair and was afraid not only to sit by, but also to sit in the chair of another, ”Fedor Ivanovich later said. A year later, Savva Mamontov invited the young singer to the Moscow private opera.

The young summer bass gathered a full hall with his performance. Artists created amazing scenery that emphasized vivid stage images. At the same time, the singer became close to Sergey Rakhmaninov. Chaliapin is a whole era of Russian art and from a year the leading soloist of the two main theaters of the country - Bolshoi and Mariinsky. An enthusiastic reception of the public was caused by opera arias, and chamber works, and romances.

Wherever Fedor Ivanovich sang, crowds of fans and listeners gathered around. Even while relaxing in the country. The First World War stopped the triumphal tour. The singer at his own expense organized the work of two lasarets for the wounded. After the revolution of the year, Fedor Chaliapin lived in St. Petersburg and was the artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater.

A year later, the tsar-bass was the first of the artists of the artist received the title of People's Artist of the Republic, whom he lost, going into emigration.

In the year, the artist did not return from a touring trip to the United States, although he believed that he was leaving Russia only for a while. Having traveled with concerts the whole world, the singer performed a lot in the “Russian Opera” and created a whole “Romance Theater”. Chaliapinsky repertoire counted about works. I am concerned and creatively exciting the idea that the microphone symbolizes not a particular audience, but millions of listeners, ”said the singer and recorded around the arias, songs and romances.

Leaving the richest heritage, Fedor Chaliapin did not return to his homeland. But until the end of his life he did not accept foreign citizenship. In the year, Fedor Ivanovich died in Paris, and after half a century, the son of Fedor achieved permission to reboot his father’s dust in the Novodevichy cemetery. At the end of the twentieth century, the title of People's Artist was returned to the great Russian opera singer.