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May 2004
Vishnevskaya, the opera “Faust” is one of the most beautiful and her favorite operas. It was performed by such a luminaries as Kozlovsky, Shpiller, Reizen, Pirogov, Ivan Petrov and of course the great Shalyapin as acting a part of Mephistopheles. “Amazing music, splendid libretto, excellent roles for actors. I’m sure that public will take with […]
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March 2004
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 […]
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October 2003
On the eve of the new concert-theatre season in Opera Centre of Galina Vishnevskaya the opera of Rimsky-Korsakov “The Tsar’s fiancee” is being rehearsed. The performance is managed by Galina Vishnevskaya and a young and gifted producer from Yugoslavia Ivan Popovski, follower of Petr Fomenko. Uri Baranov, Aleksander Kasianov, Oksana Kornievskaya, Pavel Paremusov, Vladimir Baikov,Oksana […]
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September 2003
On September 1, 2003 the meeting of Galina Vishnevskaya with students who are listeners of the Centre took place in Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre. The meeting was held to curriculum and creative plans for a forthcoming season. Premiere of an opera of N.A.Rimsky-Korsakov “The Tsar’s fiancee” staging by Galina Vishnevskaya herself and famous director from […]
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April 2003
On April 2nd and 12th the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre held concerts dedicated to Sergey Rakhmaninov’s 130th birthday, featuring the soloists of the Centre and the Mstislav Rostropovich’s Fund scholars. The most famous musicians throughout their artistic lives keep going back to heritage of the great Russian composer, the pianist, the conductor, and transfer this […]
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March 2003
Lead singers of the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre and holders of the Mstislav Rostropovich scholarship program all came out on stage offering a musical tribute to the great 20th century Russian composer Sergei Prokofyev who died 50 years ago today. The concert held at the Centre’s premises in downtown Moscow was organized by Galina Vishnevskaya […]
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February 2003
On February 24 Paata Burchuladze gave one an only master class for students of the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre in Moscow. Critically acclaimed as one of the world’s five best bass singers, Paata Burchuladze offers an exciting combination of one of a kind vocal mastery, stage presence and inimitable drive that prompted the great Herbert […]
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February 2003
One of the world’s premier mimes, Anatoly Yelizariov, recently unveiled his all-new Jubilee – 03 programme at the Vishvevskaya Opera Centre. The whole presentation builds around the Confession show featuring excerpts from Elisir d’Amore by G. Donizetti, blues by O. Benson and L. Armstrong, all staged and produced by Yelizarov whom critics have dubbed “the […]
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January 2003
Full-blown stage productions was certainly not the goal the Centre”s artistic director, Galina Vishnevskaya originally set herself. What she really was going for, however, was a sort of a first-semester examination for students who Vishnevskaya and other teachers think have come a pretty long way since they started off five months ago. Lyudmila was sung […]
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December 2002
The wonderful family of Galina Vishnevskaya and Mstislav Rostropovich, their daughters Yelena and Olga and their six grandchildren in tow, have had their first-ever family reunion here in Russia to celebrate the New Year 2003. They were joined by the world-renowned diva’s many students and fans in an anniversary concert held at the Opera Centre […]
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December 2002
Participants played music by R. Shchedrin, F. Chopin, P. Tchaikovsky, S. Prokofyev and S. Rakhmaninoff. Honourary diplomas were handed out by the Fund s President, Mstislav Rostropovich. The Charitable Scholarships Fund was established in 1997. Stipends are annually awarded to the most talented music college and school students from around Russia. In the 2000/2001 school […]
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October 2002
The Russian Romance program featured love songs by P. Tchaikovsky and S. Rakhmaninoff, among them the much-loved In Broad Daylight, I Opened the Window and Please, Do Not Sing My Bonnie Lass.The proud holder of the World s Best Singer and The King of Russian Vocals titles, Dmitry Khvorostovsky was joined on stage by pianist […]
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September 2002
On September 22, 2002 the Centre’s chief consultant, Mstislav Rostropovic, addressed the audience gathered at the Centre at the start of a much-awaited meeting with the People’s Artist of the USSR, Professor, and winner of numerous national and international awards, Boris Pokrovsky. Each meeting with the world-renowned maestro is a veritable one-man show and […]
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September 2002
The opening brought true the great singer’s longtime dream of giving Russia a place where young singers could hone their performing skills and that would give them a chance to present the Russian school of opera singing at the world’s premier venues. The opening ceremony came as part of the City Day celebrations and Galina […]
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