Galina Vishnevskaya, the soprano, who has died aged 86, rose to international stardom in the 1960s when she and her husband, the cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, were celebrated as the ...

Galina Vishnevskaya, once called the "Russian Maria Callas" for her electrifying interpretations, has died at her country home near Moscow. The soprano had been suffering from heart problems in the ...

Vishnevskaya in 1963, the year she recorded and gave her first public performance of the War Requiem CREATIVE genius and the inspiration gleaned from close personal friends were always inseparable in ...

MOSCOW (AP) — World-renowned Russian opera diva Galina Vishnevskaya, who with her husband defied the Soviet regime to give shelter to writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn and suffered exile from her homeland ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Galina Vishnevskaya, the Russian opera singer whose soprano voice entranced composer Benjamin Britten and persuaded violinist Mstislav Rostropovich to become her third husband has ...

MOSCOW, December 13 (Itar-Tass) — The diseased opera singer, Galina Vishnevskaya, is a true representative of Russian intelligentsia. “She gave all her energy and soul to art and other people. Our ...

The legendary Soviet and Russian opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya has died in Moscow, RT reports. “What she did for Russian culture, for the development of Russian society, cannot be overstated,” said ...

No Tosca ever sang 'Vissi d'arte' with more blazing intensity than Galina Vishnevskaya, but then there can have been few prima donnas for whom the words 'I lived for art' seemed so true. Her ...

Galina Vishnevskaya was famous both as a singer and as the wife of the cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich. As a singer she was famous, in Britain at least, for being forbidden to take the soprano solos at ...