Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya (Russian: Гали́на Па́вловна Вишне́вская) (born 25 October 1926) is a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1966. 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. The diva made many recordings, including Eugene Onegin (1956 and 1970), Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death (1961 and 1976), Britten's War Requiem (with Sir Peter Pears and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, conducted by the composer; 1963), The Poet's Echo (1968), Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov (1970 and 1987), Puccini's Tosca (1976), Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades (with Regina Resnik, 1976), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1978), Tchaikovsky's Iolanta (with Nicolai Gedda, 1984), and Prokofiev's War and Peace (1986)...
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This collection of songs by Benjamin Britten, "The Poet's Echo," was written for Galina Vishnevskaya and Mstislav Rostropovich, who were friends of Britten. The songs were written when Britten was on holiday in the Soviet Union in August 1965. The texts are poems by Pushkin, set in Russian.The debut performance of the songs, with Vishnevskaya and Rostropovich at the piano was on 2 December 1965 in Moscow and was the world premiere of the work.
A link to this wonderful artists personal Website: http://www.rostropovich.org/
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Galina Vishnevskaya: Britten -The Poet's Echo, 'Echo' バチェラー 久保 | |
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