CHALIAPIN FYODOR (1873-1938) Autograph inscription in French: ‘Souvenir de F Chaliapine’. No place, 1934

Card. 9 x 10.5 cm. Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin (1873-1938) was a Russian opera and concert singer (high bass), at various times a soloist at the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres and at the Metropolitan Opera, and the first People’s Artist of the Republic. He earned a reputation as an artist who combined ‘innate musicality, a brilliant voice and extraordinary acting skill’. He had a great influence on opera worldwide.