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Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist
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- classical music, opera
- Soviet Union, Russia
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2024-04-08 14:26:23
Sol Hurok, 2024
[…] cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, violinists Nathan Milstein and Efrem Zimbalist, and later represented the younger stars, Van Cliburn, Jacqueline du Pré, Itzhak Perlman, and Pinchas Zukerman. For many years Hurok tried to bring Soviet artists to America. It became possible only after Stalin’s death. The pianists Emil Gilels and violinist David Oistrakh came first, in 1955, then, later, such luminaries as Sviatoslav Richter, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Leonid Kogan and Mstislav Rostropovich. Hurok also represented the singers Galina Vishnevskaya and Irina Arkhipova and conductors Kiril Kondrashin and Yevgeny Svetlanov. Some of Hurok’s greatest coups were achieved with the ballet companies: the Bolshoi tour in 1959 was a sensational success, and so was Kirov’s, which Hurok brought in 1961. Sol Hurok died in New York on March 5th of 1974.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-01-24 01:17:22
[…] frightful and hopeless? Were we then born to live such a life?” Katerina Izmailova made its debut in December 1963, in the same theater where Lady Macbeth had its Moscow premiere in 1934. In 1964, Melodiya released a recording of the revised version with Eleonora Andreeva in the title role; in 1966, a shortened film adaptation — running 116 minutes as opposed to the recording’s 170 — appeared directed by Mikhail Shapiro and starring Galina Vishnevskaya. The revised version has been described as “bowdlerized” and “laundered,” even though some of the changes were actually made before the 1934 premiere or shortly after. Shostakovich himself maintained that Katerina Izmailova was the definitive form of his opera. Perhaps that’s the public position he had to take. Or perhaps, being Shostakovich, he loved both versions. It does seem that he still cared about the original, since he’s said to have asked his friend […]
2024-01-08 14:00:16
Siam giunte, F.B. Pinkerton
Before some important Madama Butterfly sopranos dominate the American scene in early 2024, Chris’s Cache offers live recordings of four vintage Cio-Cio-Sans, plus a brand new one: Renata Scotto; Galina Vishnevskaya, Anna Moffo, Gilda Cruz-Romo–and Sonya Yoncheva.
2023-10-25 10:00:34
Born on this day in 1926 soprano Galina Vishnevskaya
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