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Certainly one of the most beautiful voices in post-war opera, Galina Vichnevskaya (1926-2012) made her debut in 1954 in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, and went on to score several successes from New York to Milan in Aida and Turandot. Married to cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovitch, with whom she collaborated on stage and on record, the soprano singer was offered a role tailor-made for her by Benjamin Britten, who dedicated his War Requiem to her in 1962. After further successes in Boris Godunov, Lady McBeth of Mtsensk and War and Peace, Galina Vichnevskaya bid farewell in 1982. She died on December 11, 2012, five years after her husband.
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