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The great Galina: prima donna assoluta at the Bolshoi Theater for two decades, Galina Vishnevskaya had a life as dramatic and turbulent as that of the heroines she sang.(Interview)
There is a movie about Maria Callas, because her life played out like one. There is an opera about Galina Vishnevskaya, Marcel Landowski's Galina, because the great Russian sopranos life has spanned all the grandeur, passion, turbulence, tragedy and triumph of the lyric stage.
In her prime, Vishnevskaya had a fascinating voice--a shimmering lyric soprano with an exciting edge and thrust--superb musical instincts, penetrating intelligence and a sense of the stage. Still handsome in her mature appearance, she can also look like a young girl; in early photographs one can see the woman she was to become. This was the remarkable visual dimension she brought to Tatyana ...
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