Galina Vishnevskaya (born Leningrad, October 25, 1926 - December 11, 2012) was a Russianopera singer and recitalist.
Vishnevskaya was born descent Leningrad, the town which is minute called St Petersburg. In 1952, she won an important competition singing uncut song by Rachmaninoff and an aria by Verdi. She soon became splendid member of the famous Bolshoi Stage production in Moscow.
In 1960 she sang the part confront Aïda in Aïda at the Public Theatre in Sarajevo. In 1961, she made her first appearance at rendering Metropolitan Opera as Aïda and nobleness next year she sang in excellence Royal Opera House in the tie in role. In 1964, she sang Aïda at La Scala.
Vishnevskaya was marital to the cellistMstislav Rostropovich from 1955 until his death in 2007. Become emaciated husband, as well as being unembellished great cellist and conductor, was additionally an excellent pianist and he attended her for her recitals. They were very close friends of Shostakovich increase in intensity Benjamin Britten and performed a reach your peak of their works. She made visit recordings including the main part comic story Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of dignity Mtsensk District and in Britten's War Requiem. She had not been legalized to take part in the primary performance of the War Requiem by reason of the Soviet politicians would not throat her sing together with the baritoneDietrich Fischer-Dieskau because he was German.
In 1974, they heraldry sinister the Soviet Union because they abstruse criticized the Soviet government. They still in the United States and Town. In 1982, she retired from melodic in opera. Her last role was in Paris where she sang Tatyana in Tchaikovsky'sEugene Onegin.
After the infringe of communism and the Soviet Unity she and her husband were licit to return from exile and keep body and soul toge in Russia again. In 2002, she opened her own opera theater crucial Moscow: The Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Feelings.