MUSIC - (Fedor Chaliapin) Marina Fedorovna Chaliapin (Moscow, 1912 - Rome, 2009) - Four

(Fedor Chaliapin) Marina Fedorovna Chaliapin (Moscow, 1912 - Rome, 2009)Four autographletters (three signed, only one dated 1984), addressed to various correspondents, discussing private matters, travels, as well as an account of her father's tournée. "I am back in my cozy little room in Paris its walls are how hung with souvenirs, there is a sort of tapisserie from Port Said...". "Father's première and the second Boris had a great great deal of success. It's true that it is interesting to see him and he holds the audience thoroughly in this theatre. The tickets were and are sold for quite a few performances ahead and interesting the public. The King of Sweden was there the last time. I am longing to see Don Carlos; I have never heard father in it in my life before and I think it must be very interesting. It will be the first serious role in Italian opera that I will hear because I just know him in the Barbiere di Siviglia...". Maria Fedorovna Chaliapin was the daughter of the famous bass singer Fedor Ivanovich Chaliapin and, acclaimed actress and model ('Miss Russia' 1931), and a passionate advocate for preserving her father's memory. Total of 14 pages, in-8, in French, English, and Russian.Included a letter and three telegrams addressed to Marina Chaliapin.