Galina V. has sung her last.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9738109/Galina-Vishnevskaya.html

[bhodges]

Very sad. Her recording of Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk was my introduction to the piece - and still a recording I love.

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--Bruce

[aukhawk]

She was essential to Britten's War Requiem, without her it isn't the same piece.

[Mirror Image]

She was essential to Britten's War Requiem, without her it isn't the same piece.

I disagree. There have been many fine recordings of War Requiem.

[jochanaan]

I can still hear her (in my mind) singing Shostakovich 14 with her husband Mstislav Rostropovich conducting members of the Moscow Philharmonic; I can't imagine a better performance.  Walk in beauty, Mme. Galina.

[Hattoff]

Pretty well the end of an era. Who's left from those stalinist days? Very sad.

[snyprrr]

I can still hear her (in my mind) singing Shostakovich 14 with her husband Mstislav Rostropovich conducting members of the Moscow Philharmonic; I can't imagine a better performance.  Walk in beauty, Mme. Galina.

THAT sounds nice!

[val]

She was the most adorable of the Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, with Belov and Lemeshev in the Bolshoi version conducted by Khaikin (1955).