Crossword-Solution: CHALIAPIN 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Among other noted singers we find, Lucienne Breval, Caruso, Fremstad, Tetrazzini, Bonci, Renaud, Chaliapin, Morena, Destinn, Mary Garden, John McCormack, Edouard Clément, and Slezak,--samples of many nationalities.

American début of the Russian basso Chaliapin in "Mefistofele" at the Manhattan Opera House, New York City.

Shatov’s whispered eulogies of Chaliapin, “the only true Mephistopheles in Europe.” It certainly seemed right that the devil should have “a most profound bass voice.” The chanting of angels in Paradise, she suggested, could only be imagined in high clear soprano, whereat he maintained that women’s voices unsupported by the voices of men were not worth imagining at all.

Besides numerous side shows, it contained a large theatre where the same dramatic works were produced as in the State theatres, and the biggest opera house in Russia, where the Russian peasant Chaliapin, the greatest operatic singer and actor the world has yet seen, sang regularly to huge audiences of six or eight thousand lower middle class and working people.

Admitting that some are physically able to work longer and better than others, therefore there have to be grades of payment, and when great talent shows itself, “_cela merite d’être recompensé_.” Chaliapin, who used to have the title of “Artist to the Court,” is now called “The Artist of the People.” Chaliapin, I gathered, was a very popular figure.