Шаляпинский зал Уфимского института искусств: обретение имени

Abstract

May 2016 was marked by a memorable jubilee – the 125th anniversary of the performance of the great artist Feodor Chaliapin in Ufa on the Stage of the Nobility Assembly (presently the building of the Ufa State Institute of the Arts). The lengthy process, one that is very laborious for Russian culture, of returning the fame of the great singer to his homeland may be observed on the example of Bashkortostan. The pages of history connected with Chaliapin’s operatic debut in the private theatrical enterprise of Semyon Semyonov-Samarsky (1890/1891), the solo performance at a concert of the Society of Fans of Singing, Music and Dramatic Art. The rehabilitation of the name of the great singer in the years after World War II took place in complex conditions. A great role in the immortalization of the memory of Chaliapin in Ufa was played by musician and artist, bass singer, Merited Activist of the Arts of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Boris Yakovlevich Torik. As a result of his initiative for the first time a memorial tablet in honor of Feodor Chaliapin was put up on the wall of the former Ufa Nobility Assembly (1967). Torik played the role of Chaliapin in the televised film of the Bashkir Studio, which became an act of homage to the great names of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Feodor Chaliapin (1970). Active work of the Ufa Branch of the International Chaliapin Center (1992) was directed for many years by the leader of the Chaliapin movement in the republic – Galina Alexandrovna Belskaya. A considerable number of events connected with the history of the Concert Hall: its being named after Chaliapin, the renovation of the memorial tablet, mounting of a statue of the artist, etc. The great talent of the ingenious singer serves as an impulse for emergence of new cultural projects in Bashkortostan. Keywords: Feodor Chaliapin, Chaliapin in Ufa, the Chaliapin movement, B. Ya. Torik, G.A. Belskaya.