Fedor Ivanovic Saljapin (Kazan, 13 febbraio 1873 - Parigi, 12 aprile 1938) Low-Russian baritone (Ometovo, Kazan, 1873-Paris 1938). After the first experiences in a traveling company, he made regular studies; in 1894 he achieved his first real success in Petersburg, coronandoli in 1896 in Moscow in Life for the Tsar by Glinka. He then began a triumphant career that took him in the most prestigious theaters in the world. In 1901 and 1904 he was in Italy (splendid Mephistopheles and Faust at La Scala in Rome); in 1908-09 in Paris (memorable Boris in the Diaghilev company); in 1913 in London (even with Diaghilev); since 1920 in America (where it was stable at the Metropolitan Opera from 1921 to 1929) and also in Japan. For three decades Chaliapin was unsurpassed interpreter not only of those quoted in Don Quichotte by Massenet, Rachmaninov's Aleko and Bohème. He retired in 1937, after a Boris in Monte Carlo. Not less than its beautiful voice, just as effective in the low registers that those baritone, was his scenic art, which allowed him to also give a face and a different picture on each character. For the film he played a big Don Quichotte (1933, music by J. Ibert and directed by G. W. Pabst). He published two volumes also autobiographical in nature. Photo in Nabucco robes, signed dated 1929. Photography; 16,5X21,5 cm Excellent condition