An 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.
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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.