Word: vishnevskaya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orchestra of the Bolshoi Theater; Westminster, 3 LPs). Pushkin's sentimental tale of a St. Petersburg blade and his Unbeloved, given a skilled and rousing reading by Russia's leading opera group. The score displays Tchaikovsky at the top of his meltingly melancholy form. Soprano Galina Vishnevskaya is particularly fine as the lofty-souled heroine whose real-life prototype became Tchaikovsky's wife in a marriage that almost drove him to suicide...