Galina Vishnevskaya, Soprano and Dissident, Dies at 86

The New York Times ^ | December 11, 2012 | Jonathan Kandell

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Galina Vishnevskaya, an electrifying soprano who endured repression and exile as one of the postwar Soviet Union’s most prominent political dissidents, died on Monday in Moscow. She was 86.

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[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[BipolarBob]

I don't recall him but I miss that Soprano show.

[VanShuyten]

I hope you don’t live long in the new gulags.

[Erasmus]

I had to check wiki to make sure, but she was the wife of Mstislav Rostropovich, the cellist and conductor.

I just now discovered that he died a few years ago. Shoot. I always wanted to meet him so I could say,

“Play, Misti, for me.”