Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya

A legend of the Russian opera stage Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya was born in 1926 in Leningrad, and started her creative activity in the Leningrad Operetta Theatre. From 1952 to 1974, she was a soloist at the Bolshoy Theatre, where she performed more than thirty parts. In 1955 she married Mstislav ostropovich, with whom her life and art has been inextricably linked.In 1974 Rostropovich and Vishnevskaya left the USSR, and in 1978 they were stripped of their Soviet… (more)