Which early-20th-century bass opera singer, renowned for his powerful voice and dramatic acting, was a soloist with the Mariinsky Theatre and the Metropolitan Opera?

• A Feodor Chaliapin ✓
• B Ivan Kozlovsky
• C Sergei Lemeshev
• D Yevgeny Nesterenko

Feodor Chaliapin (1873–1938) was the first singer to bring realistic, psychologically nuanced acting to opera; his signature role was Boris Godunov in Mussorgsky's opera.