Word: vishnevskaya
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...want." That creed is perfectly acceptable in Washington, D.C., where Mstislav Rostropovich has achieved a rousing success as conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, but last week it proved unacceptable in Moscow. In a decree signed by Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, Rostropovich and his wife, the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, were deprived of their Soviet citizenship as "ideological renegades." "Slava" Rostropovich called the action "inhumane and unfair." U.S. officials said they would be happy to grant him refugee status whenever he requested it. But neither in Russia nor America can a piece of paper define Rostropovich's overflowing identity...
...Bolshoi Ballet is well into its fourth U.S. tour in 16 years. The Moiseyev folk dancers are regular visitors to America. Nureyev, Makarova, Baryshnikov, Vishnevskaya and Rostropovich are now residents in the West. What more could Russia possibly offer American audiences? The Bolshoi Opera, for one. Though in recent years the Bolshoi has visited Osaka, Tokyo, Montreal, Paris and Milan, it was not until last week at New York's Metropolitan Opera that the company set foot, props and double bass pins on U.S. soil. Bolshoi means big, and the opera company is nothing if not bolshoi...
...conducting debut before an audience of 2,700 at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington. Rostropovich, who had encountered growing repression in his homeland because of his loyalty to Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn and other dissident artists, left the Soviet Union in May with his wife, Soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. The maestro's troubles seemed almost distant, however, as he guided an exuberant National Symphony Orchestra through an evening of Tchaikovsky for an audience that included another recent arrival from the U.S.S.R., Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. It was a rare evening. Said Washington Star-News Critic Irving Lowens: "In terms...
Rostropovich is also an accomplished pianist; between his heavy schedule of appearances this summer, he accompanied his wife, Bolshoi Opera Soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, at several recitals throughout England. Leaving London last week, Rostropovich explained that he was off for a month-long holiday in Armenia with his wife and Britten. "It's my first vacation in ten years," he said. Even an iron man is entitled to that...
Benjamin Britten: War Requiem (London). Britten conducts the Bach and Highgate school choirs and the London Symphony Orchestra (Vishnevskaya, Pears and Fischer-Dieskau, soloists) in a reverent performance...