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November 2020
Another birthday of the Russian opera diva Galina Vishnevskaya coincided with the World Opera Day. According to the established tradition, a gala concert in memory of the great singer took place at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre. The Centre’s alumni, now soloists of the leading opera houses of Moscow, took part in the gala night: […]
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October 2020
A gala concert on Galina Vishnevskaya’s birthday took place at the Opera Centre named in her honour. The tradition of holding such performances arose during the singer’s lifetime. Now it is being continued by Vishnevskaya’s students. Flowers at Galina Vishnevskaya’s portrait are always there, but the bouquet is especially magnificent on her birthday. This is […]
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September 2020
The dedication concert «Our Tchaikovsky» has opened a new season at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre; artistic director Olga Rostropovich Chamber vocal compositions, excerpts from operas and instrumental works by Pyotr Tchaikovsky were performed by the soloists, graduates, and students of the Opera Centre. The piano parts were performed by Valery Gerasimov and Georgy Migunov. […]
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June 2019
On June 7 2019, the final III round of the Galina Vishnevskaya VII International Opera Singers Competition was held at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theater. Olga Rostropovich, Chairman of the Jury, opened the prize-winners awarding ceremony with congratulations to the contestants and greetings and thanks to the friends and partners of the competition […]
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April 2017
At a press conference before the National Symphony Orchestra’s Moscow concerts in March, Olga Rostropovich, who founded the Rostropovich Festival in the name of her famous father, listens to Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter, along with NSO violist William Foster. (Scott Suchman/National Symphony Orchestra) Some children of famous parents seem overshadowed by their […]
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March 2016
This year Olga Rostropovich dedicated the Mstislav Rostropovich Festival to the 90th birthday anniversary celebrations of Galina Vishnevskaya The Seventh International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival opened with a performance at the Grand Hall of the Conservatoire of Mozart’s Requiem, one of Vishnevskaya’s and Rostropovich’s favourite works. The Requiem Mass was performed by the Russian National Orchestra […]
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November 2015
This autumn in Moscow continued the celebration of the 175th anniversary of Tchaikovsky, and in October alone three different productions of Iolanta were put on at various venues. But unfortunately they were not all worthy of the composer’s brilliant score. To start with, a very successful concert performance of the opera was given at the Grand Hall […]
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July 2015
Opera Assemblies of the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre 2014/15 The magnificent idea to create an exchange of young opera artists arose 4 years ago, during Placido Domingo’s international «Operalia» competition. On that occasion both Domingo and Galina Vishnevskaya served as jury members. Initially they simply wished to organize master classes and concerts combining young artists […]
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October 2014
Olga Rostropovich, the daughter of legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and singer Galina Vishnevskaya, spoke to Radio VR about her late mother, family life in New York, and cultural life in Moscow, which she calls extraordinary and incredible. Olga, you are in charge of the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center. And I understand October 25th, is the birthday of […]
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May 2011
Boris Godunov premiere at Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre When an educational theater (and the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre can be called one) takes on one of the most popular Russian operas, it can be one of two things: it’s either very self-confident and unaware of its real abilities or, on the contrary, it’s really strong. […]
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May 2011
One of Mussorgsky’s greatest works – the opera Boris Godunov was staged in the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre. Masterfully directed by Ivan Popovski, the opera undoubtedly deserves close attention. The Opera Centre was careful with the main Russian opera – no altering the libretto, changing meanings or modernizing it. The opera was staged according to […]
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October 2010
From October 16 to 24, concert audiences in Paris, Besancon, Moscow and Perm were treated to a highly original program entitled “Unknown Shostakovich,” a project developed under the leadership of Elena Oparkova, director of the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre, Jean-Louis Gavatorte, curator of classical and contemporary music of the French national agency Culturesfrance, and Emmanuel Hondre, […]
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December 2009
Famous opera by Charles Gounod performed in Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre. Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre established a reputation not only as the “factory of the new opera masters” and the serious artistic association, but also as a creative work-shop, where nobody is afraid of the artistic experiment and where the constant self-perfection is the ordinary […]
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March 2009
First festival of Russian culture in the republic of South Africa In the Republic of South Africa, that is so far away from Russia, there took place a Festival of Russian Culture during the first decade f March. It took more than two years to prepare it. Supported by the Ministry of Culture it was […]
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September 2008
Yesterday at the International Saint Lucia Festival there was given a production, organised by Conarte, where the technique overcame all the circumstances. The Russian voices, traditionally so admirable, overcame bad acoustics of the City Theatre. Every soloist and all the choir singers sounded in full power, unlike singers in other productions. The Galina Vishnevskaya Opera […]
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June 2008
The closing ceremony of the Galina Vishnevskaya II International Opera Singers Competition took place in the Svetlanov Hall of the MIHoM. This time the competition was dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich , whose unseen presence was felt in the hall – after all he also was an inspirer of the undertaking, launched and implemented by Galina […]
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December 2007
Galina Vishevskaya’s Opera Centre celebrated its first anniversary. This centre is a kind of step between music conservatory and opera theatre. Galina Vishnevskaya is confident that an opera singer needs to go through another artistic stage between music conservatory and opera theatre so that young artists would come to the theatre already having at least […]
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December 2007
Opening of Tchaikovsky’s Eugeny Onegin in Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre If you “have not heard”, then hurry up. Although it will not be so easy to do. The house of the theatre on Ostozhenka street has turned out to be too small to fit everybody who wanted to see the only performance of the November […]
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March 2007
Galina Vishnevskaya’s Opera Centre premiered a new production of the opera Carmen by G. Bizet, the beloved opera of all the times. Against fashions and rules it is sung in the Russian language, and the production does not try to modify the classical masterpiece adding to it some imbecile modern plot features. Public, coming to […]
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March 2007
Ivan Popovsky, the director, made Carmen smoke. Since Galina Vishnevskaya did not accept the new version of Eugene Onegin in the Bolshoi Theatre, it became clear that Prima Donna would not admit to her Opera Centre directors, ill-wresting the classics. That is why, the premiere of Carmen in the Opera Centre on last Saturday, aroused […]
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