Galina gets a postage stamp
mainAn honour belated, but richly deserved. Better than being a non-person, as she was for 15 years.
An honour belated, but richly deserved. Better than being a non-person, as she was for 15 years.
From Arab News: Italian opera tenor Andrea Bocelli…
The soloist is Maureen Forrester. Chrysler Festival, 1957
With Casals conducting…. One for the ages
The Chinese-American pianist Derek Han, artistic director of…
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The stamp is a nice touch… although very few people actually send letters these days 😉
Her more lasting legacy will be the Galina Vishnevskaya Postgraduate Opera Studies Centre in Moscow. She was passionate about bringing on new generations of singers (perhaps because her own training was so haphazard and interrupted?), and the Opera Centre continues that work.