The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time. Galina Vishnevskaya Read Quote
The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television. Galina Vishnevskaya Read Quote
Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn’t know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance. Galina Vishnevskaya Read Quote