Galina Vishnevskaya News
Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist
- piano, voice
- soprano
- classical music, opera
- Soviet Union, Russia
- actor, opera singer, music teacher, biographer, diarist, theatrical director, opera director
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2024-03-18
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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
2022-01-29 09:23:12
Expanding her horizons: Lada Valesova on conducting Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at Opera Holland Park
[…] though Tatyana is written for a lyric soprano it is a demanding role and in its way relentless so that even in the second act when the character sings much less, she goes on an emotional journey. And in a way, a good actor can make people believe that they are a teenager, and she cites seeing Krassimira Stoyanova as Tatyana at Covent Garden. This leads us to talk of the distinguished Russian soprano Galina Vishnevskaya (herself a fine Tatyana) whom Lada met by chance and started playing for Vishnevskaya's coaching sessions for young singers (and Vishnevskaya as a teacher was so generous with her time for young singers). When coaching Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Vishnevskaya demonstrated the role and whilst singing she was transformed, she became a 16-year-old geisha, then she promptly turned to the young singer and said this is how you do it, and if you cannot get […]
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