Chaliapin’s voice as a phenomenon in vocal art

February 13, 2023, is the 150th anniversary of the birth of the phenomenal opera singer, worldfamous bass Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin (1873-1938). Chaliapin’s voice is an undeniable phenomenon in the world vocal art. It was comparable to a Stradivarius violin in its uniqueness and flight. It is the art of intonational reincarnation, subtle work of conveying the psychological characters of heroes. His scale went beyond the scope of one vocal art, because he was also a brilliant actor, sculptor, painter and wrote superbly. The latter is evidenced by his correspondence and friendship with the writer Maxim Gorky. The genius of the performer was confirmed by the rave reviews of both his contemporaries: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Leonid Andreev, and an extensive list of research literature that problematized the phenomenon of Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin. This is a great art that we will have to study and learn from the great bass for a long time to come.