FAMOUS SINGER
DEATH OF FEDOR CHALIAPIN.
(Recd This Day, 10.20 a.m.) PARIS, April 12. The death has occured of the singer Fedor Ivanovitch Chaliapin.
Chaliapin, who visited New Zealand in comparatively recent years, had a remarkable career as a lyric and dramatic artist. After being apprenticed as a shoemaker, working as a railway clerk, out-porter and as a stevedore on the Volga steamboats, at the age of seventeen he joined a small LittleRussian travelling company as a singer and dancer. He had his first serious singing lesson from Oussatov at Tiflis in 1892. where he made his operatic debut in "A Life for the Tsar.” After appearing in Petrograd he joined a private opera company in Moscow in 1896,'where he obtained his first great success: His first appearance outside Russia was at La Scala, Milan, and later he sang in Paris, Monte Carlo. Buenos Aires, New York and London. After the war he toured in England, America Australia, New Zealand and the Far East.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1938, Page 7
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