On December 11, 2012 Galina Vishnevskaya, – a great Russian singer, People’s Artist of the USSR, Absolute Holder of the Order ‘For Services to the Fatherland’, the founder and the artistic director of the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre, our beloved and dear, passed away.
Those expressed their sincerest condolences: the Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, the Chairman of the Russian State Duma Sergey Naryshkin, Deputy Chairman of the Russian State Duma Lyudmila Shvetsova, Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, Minister for Culture Vladimir Medinsky, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, Moscow City Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, Irina Antonova, Irina Bogacheva, Yuri Bashmet, Michael Piotrowski, Oleg Tabakov, Eldar Ryazanov, Mikhail Shvydkoi, Moscow and St. Petersburg Conservatories, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Musical Theatre, the Mariinsky Theatre, the Helikon Opera, Rostropovich Nizhny Novgorod Philharmonic, Pokrovsky Chamber Music Theatre, “Novaya Opera” theater, Valery Zolotukhin and Taganka Theater, Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre, “Radio Russia”, “Kultura” Radio, “Itogi” magazine, “Orpheus” Radio, many, many admirers of Galina Vishnevskaya, governmental officials, masters of culture, Russian theaters, music ensembles, museums, representatives of the diplomatic community.