{"id":10329,"date":"2012-12-12T13:05:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T02:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=10329"},"modified":"2012-12-12T13:05:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T02:05:05","slug":"vale-galina-vishnevskaya-a-link-to-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=10329","title":{"rendered":"Vale Galina Vishnevskaya &#8211; a link to history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10330\" title=\"images\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/images1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The death was announced yesterday of Russian soprano Galina Vishnenskaya. She was 86. It is the end of an era. Married to the iconic cellist Msitislav Rostropovich from 1955 until his death in\u00a02007, she was part of a circle of\u00a0artists who included Britten, Shostakovich and Solzhenitsyn. Both Britten and Shostakovich\u00a0wrote especially for her &#8211;\u00a0the glorious soprano solo in Britten&#8217;s <em>War Requiem <\/em>and she\u00a0 defined many of the roles in Russian opera\u00a0vocal music,\u00a0including Lisa in <em>The Queen of Spades<\/em> and Titania in <em>Eugene<\/em> <em>Onegin.<\/em> She remained a defiant dissident\u00a0through the darkest times of the Soviet era.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2012\/dec\/11\/galina-vishnevskaya\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to read her obituary in The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/12\/arts\/music\/galina-vishnevskaya-electrifying-soprano-dies-at-86.html?_r=0\">Click here <\/a>for the obituary form the New York Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death was announced yesterday of Russian soprano Galina Vishnenskaya. She was 86. It is the end of an era. 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