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Moscow Department of Culture
+7 (495) 637 77 03
+7 (495) 637 75 96
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October 2006
MusicalAmerica.com MOSCOW – It was quite a week for Galina VISHNEVSKAYA. On Tuesday night, the eve of her 80th birthday, the famed soprano presented the winners of her newly established vocal competition. And on Wednesday the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall hosted a birthday party that was quintessentially Russian in its lavishness. The gala was originally to […]
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July 2006
The Opera Centre celebrated the third graduation of vocalists. During a few years of its existence, the vocal school of an out-of-favour Soviet Prima Donna gained a status of a true stage workshop that can compete only with Academy for Young singers of Mariinsky Theatre with its opportunity to train students on the Empyreal stage. […]
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March 2006
The premiere of “Iolanta” by Tchaikovsky has been performed in Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre . Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre is an educational theatre that is not burdened with strict deadlines. The work on “Iolanta” began last year there, when the Centre had a new intake of opera singing students. For the first time the Centre […]
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November 2005
The only place in Moscow where you could see the “Faust” opera is Galina Vishnevskaya Centre for Opera. A brand-new production of Gounaud’s chef-d’oeuvre was presented here on the 10th of November. It was realized by Nikilay Androsov who is more famous for his work in choreography. Androsov is the leader of the “Russian Seasons” […]
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December 2004
Last weekend the Mariinsky Orchestra led by Valery Gerghiyev opened a Russkij Festival with a concert held at the nearly 3,000-seat Auditorium Hall (also known as the Music Park) built two years ago. Festival posters can be seen plastered just about everywhere across the city, even on city buses. Just a day before Gerghiyev took […]
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May 2004
Gounod’s Faus unveiled by the Opera Centre’s first graduates Unveiled in a grand ceremony two years ago by Galina Vishnevskaya and Yuri Luzhkov, the Opera Centre is an absolutely one-of-a-kind institution. Well, no one will ever make you a singer in just two years but that’s not what the Centre was looking for, after all. […]
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May 2004
Charles Gounod’s opera “Faust” has had a rough time of it on Moscow stages in recent years. A ponderous, overdecorated and badly sung production appeared at the Bolshoi Theater in 1992, mercifully disappearing after a few performances. Then, three years ago, a Marxist-minded production team from France came to the Stanislavisky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater […]
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December 2003
You will be hard put to find the titles of either performers or even production directors on the Vishnevskaya Opera Centre’s playbills. If a director is not up to the mark, what the use of playing up his Merited or People’ Artist status, really? If a singer has nothing to offer there is nothing you […]
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November 2003
One needs to put on an air of “passionless professionalism” to provide an adequate account of two absolutely crazy concerts the outstanding Italian conductor of Indian decent, Zubin Meta, gave at the Conservatory Grand Hall in Moscow! Those were probably the best thing that ever happened to anyone who chanced to get a ticket to […]
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November 2003
Playing in Moscow as part of an Italian Culture Festival in Russia organized by the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre and assisted government and diplomatic agencies of both countries was the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino orchestra conducted by the world-acclaimed Maestro Zubin Meta who has led the orchestra for a whole 17 years (simultaneously with the Israeli […]
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October 2003
Only in its second year now, the Opera Centre has come up with already its second production, A Czar’s Bride opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff. While the first production was rather an exercise bringing to a higher relief the excellent vocal potential of Galina Vishnevskaya’s students, the second one is a full-blown stage production. The success […]
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October 2003
Ivan Popovski, Moscow s best-loved Macedonian has produced his own vision of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Czar’s Bride opera at the Vishnevskaya Opera Centre in Moscow. You can’t appreciate anything without comparison. Lambasting the statism of Ruslan and Lyudmila, the Vishnevskaya Centre’s inaugural outing, let’s now say a few good words about their brand-new production of Czar’s […]
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October 2003
The man in black ruined it all Do you know the producer of Russia’s very first beauty pageant? The name’s Ivan the Terrible. Of the overall field of 2,000 young hopefuls from the cross-section of the 16th century Russian society the monarch handpicked 12 finalists, all vying for the honorary and dangerous title of Princess […]
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August 2003
It’s not unusual for singers whose active careers are over to turn their attentions to teaching, but few move into the pedagogical world on the grand scale of Galina Vishnevskaya. The diva not only founded her own vocal institute, the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre, but arranged for it to be housed in a new building […]
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July 2003
Summer is a wonderful time for holding musical festivals in the open. In Europe their number has exceeded the mark of 1500. Even the smallest towns with some architecture sights, strive to organize a concert of classical music. The profit is obvious – the cultural status is growing, the tourism branch is developing. Music lovers […]
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September 2002
The world-famous diva unveils an opera centre in Moscow. On Sunday Galina Vishnevskaya and Mstislav Rostropovuch were joined in Ostozhenka Street by a huge crowd of friends and well-wishers who flocked in for the grand opening of the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre. Because just about anyone who happens to spend a few straight hours with […]
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May 2002
Lack of general culture is the biggest problem dogging our singers. This year the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre opens its doors to young conservatory graduates and postgraduates willing to hone their skills. Entrance auditions have already been held at the Ostozhenka Centre and only 25 of the 150 applicants will be admitted to a master […]
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