Galina Vishnevskaya (Singers) – Overview, Biography

Name:Galina Vishnevskaya
Occupation: Singers
Gender:Female
Height:161 cm (5′ 4”)
Birth Day: October 25,
1926
Death Date:December 11, 2012
Age: Aged 86
Country: Not Known
Zodiac Sign:Scorpio

Galina Vishnevskaya

Galina Vishnevskaya was born on October 25, 1926 in Not Known (86 years old). Galina Vishnevskaya is a Singers, zodiac sign: Scorpio. Nationality: Not Known. Approx. Net Worth: Undisclosed.

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Biography

Biography Timeline

1944

Vishnevskaya was born in Leningrad. She made her professional stage debut in 1944 singing operetta. After a year studying with Vera Nikolayevna Garina, she won a competition held by the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (with Rachmaninoff’s song “O, Do Not Grieve” and Verdi’s aria “O patria mia” from Aida) in 1952. The next year, she became a member of the Bolshoi Theatre.

1957

On 24 March 1957, she made her debut in Finnish National Opera as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin. On 9 May 1960, she made her first appearance in Sarajevo at the National Theatre, as Aida. In 1961, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Aida; the following year she made her debut at the Royal Opera House with the same role. For her La Scala debut in 1964, she sang Liù in Turandot, opposite Birgit Nilsson and Franco Corelli.

1974

In 1974, the couple asked the Soviet government for an extended leave and left the Soviet Union. Eventually they settled in the United States and Paris. In 1982, the soprano bade farewell to the opera stage, in Paris, as Tatyana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. In 1987, she stage directed Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride in Washington, D.C. In 1984, Vishnevskaya published a memoir, Galina: A Russian Story ( ISBN 0-15-134250-4), and in 2002, she opened her own opera theatre in Moscow, the “Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre”.

2006

In 2006, she was featured in Alexander Sokurov’s documentary Elegy of a life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya. In 2007, she starred in his film Alexandra, playing the role of a grandmother coming to see her grandson in the Second Chechen War. The film premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. In the last week of her life, Russian President Vladimir Putin honoured her with the First Class Order of Merit for the Fatherland.

2007

Vishnevskaya was married to the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich from 1955 until his death in 2007; they performed together regularly (he on piano or on the podium). Both she and Rostropovich were friends of Dmitri Shostakovich, and they made an electrifying recording of his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk for EMI. According to Robert Conquest, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn stayed at their dacha from 1968 while writing much of The Gulag Archipelago.

2012

On 11 December 2012, Vishnevskaya died at the age of 86 in Moscow. She was married three times. Her first marriage was to Georgy Vishnevsky, a sailor. She retained his family name after their divorce. Her second marriage was to the violinist and director of the Leningrad Light Opera company, Mark Rubin, who also served as her manager. This second marriage produced a son, who died at age 2 months, and lasted 10 years before ending in divorce. Her daughters survive her.

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