Centre’s projects

On October the 27th  the II International Vishnevskaya Opera Festival in Sochi, dedicated to the 90th  anniversary of Mstislav Rostropovich, was over. During the Festival five concerts were held, the guests got the opportunity to enjoy the true masterpieces of world opera classics, to get in touch with the musical heritage of the great Russian and […]

From December 9th to 11th Orenburg hosted the V International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival, dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the great musician. The Opera Centre brought to the Festival Rachmaninoff’s Aleko and Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky. On December 9th on stage of the Orenburg Philharmonic was presented Aleko by Rachmaninov in a concert. The performance […]

III Galina Vishnevskaya International Opera Festival was carried out in Russian cities for a month. The grand opening of the Festival took place in Kazan at Saidashev Grand Concert Hall with Symphonies No. 5 and No. 14 by Shostakovich. Tatarstan State Symphony Orchestra performed under the baton of its artistic director and chief conductor Alexander […]

IV International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival took place in Orenburg during November 30 — December 2nd. According to Pavel Samsonov, Vice-Governor of Orenburg Region, it has been the most important cultural event of the year. Verdi’s opera Rigoletto opened the Festival at Maxim Gorky Orenburg Drama Theatre. The main parts were performed by the soloists of […]

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 […]

On February 23-24, the soloists of the Opera Centre under the direction of Galina Vishnevskaya will take part in the Festival dedicated to one of the main events of 2006 – the 100th birthday of D. Shostakovich. The Festival will take place in the capital of Azerbaijan – Baku – and it is held on […]

December the 7th the III International festival of Mstislav Rostropovich in Orenburg was closed with the opera “Tsar’s bride” by N. Rimsky-Korsakov staged by the Opera Centre of Galina Vishnevskaya. The audience waited impatiently for the last evening of the festival. Last year the soloists and the orchestra of the Centre represented at the Festival […]

Ruggero Leoncavallo’s opera Pagliacci was performed at the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater on May 21 as a part of the VIII International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival. This is the latest premiere of the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre. The performance took place with the full house, and the delighted audience gave a genuine ovation […]

Galina Vishnevskaya International Opera Singers Competition prize-winners’ concert took place on October 30 at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. The audience has enthusiastically welcomed the winners of the previous years competitions, who now perform at the best world venues: Anastasia Kikot’, Yulia Mazurova, Svetlana Moskalenko, Elchin Azizov, Stanislav Mostovoy, Boris Pinkhasovich, Ruslan Rozyev and the winner […]

On 23rd April Orenburg saw the opening of the Second Mstislav Rostropovich International Festival. In his welcome address region’s Governor, Yuri Berg, underscored that the Festival takes place within the Year of Culture, which is of special importance to the Orenburg region as it coincides with the 270th anniversary of the Orenburg gubernia (the name the region […]

Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre celebrates its first anniversary in 2012/2013 season. Grand opening of the Opera Centre took place on 1st of September 2002, and after only four months the first production received premiere on its stage – Mikhail Glinka’s opera Ruslan and Lyudmila. For the past 10 years ten opera productions have been staged […]

The third stage of the “Young Opera Singers Sessions” conceived by Galina Vishnevskaya and by Placido Domingo during their work in a Jury on the Operalia World Competition in year 2011 has finished at Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centrre. The “Sessions” are an artistic lab of some sort, which gathers young opera artists of the various […]

The third, final, Round of the Competition took place on May 22 at Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre, where the Jury announced the laureates and diploma holders names. Congratulations! Baritone Boris Pinkhasovich has become the first prize winner. The second prize laureates are Anastasia Kikot (soprano) and Ruslan Rosyev (bass). The third prize […]

On March 31, 2011 the Opera Centre presented in Moscow for the first time Accademia della Scala leading soloists: Pretty Yende (soprano), Valeria Tornatore (mezzo) and Filippo Fontana (baritone). This concert has concluded the joint project by Opera Centre and Accademia della Scala in the official framework of the Russia-Italy Year. On March 25 Centre […]

The International Rostropovich Festival took place for the fourth time in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku December 12 to 19. As in the past, the participants included leading musicians from various countries and talented young singers and instrumentalists. On December 13, soloists of the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre performed Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen, as directed […]

On the 7th of June the festive closing of the Galina Vishnevskaya III International Opera Competition took place at the The Moscow State Academic Music Theatre K. S. Stanislavsky and Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko. The Competition winners were congratulated by the Vice-Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation A. Busygin and the Head of the Culture […]

On the 6th of May the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre presented with a great success the premiere of the music drama “The People’s war is going on” dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic war (the 2nd World War). That night the theatre welcomed war veterans performing for them their […]

On the 4th of March in the capital of the Republic of South Africa – Pretoria there opened I Festival of Russian Culture with the concerts of Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre’s soloists and Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation grant-holders. The festival was organised by Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre and Ministry for Culture of the Russian Federation, Ministries […]

The tour of the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre took place in Sofia, Varna and Russe from 1st till 6th of July in the framework of the large-scale program “Festival of the Russian Culture in Bulgaria”. On the January 17th 2008 the solemn opening of the Year of Russia in Bulgaria took place which is the […]

The Third, final Round of the competition took place in the Opera Centre on the 26th of May and the Jury has announced the names of laureates and winners! Our congratulations! The winner of the first prize is Roman Burdenko, baritone (Russia) The winners of the second prize are Elchin Azizov, baritone (Azerbaijan) Alexey Sayapin, […]

On May 22, the soloists of the Opera Centre came back to Moscow after a successful tour within the framework of the festival “May Opera Evenings” that took place in Skopje, the capital of Macedonia. The long history of the festival (that has been held for more than 34 years now) includes more than 50 […]

February 6, the project “Galina Vishnevskaya and her apprentices”, which is carried out by opera Centre together with radio station “Culture”, will be continued in 5th concert studio of television and radio company “Culture”. The project started on December 12, 2005 is a cycle of concerts in live broadcasts. Galina Vishnevskaya herself was the chief […]

Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre presents the cycle of charitable concerts devoted to 60th anniversary of Soviet people Victory in Great Patriotic War. The participants of the concert that is carried out by personal initiative of Galina Vishnevskaya and Mstislav Rostropovich are the soloists of Opera Centre and grand holders of Rostropovich Foundation. The great musicians […]

Concert with participation of the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre soloists and Russian National Orchestra conducted by Maestro Mstislav Rostropovich was successfully took place in Frankfurt and accomplished the grand international project “Russian Culture Year in Germany”. Festival has been presented all the palette of Russian art to German audience during the whole year. The final […]