Dmitri Usatov

Dimitri Andreevich Usatov (February 22, 1847 - August 23, 1913) was a Russian tenor and vocal teacher.

Born a serf to Dmitri Nikolayevich Sheremetev,[1] he studied music with Camille Everardi at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and sang at the Bolshoy Theatre from 1880 to 1889.

He later taught singing in Tbilisi, where his most famous pupil was Feodor Chaliapin,[2] whom he not only trained, but fed, clothed and supported.

[3] Usatov had a good relationship with the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

In addition to the operas already mentioned, he performed songs by Tchaikovsky for the Russian Music Society in 1877, 1880 and 1882.