Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian-American soprano and actress (died 2012)

Galina Vishnevskaya

Russian soprano

Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya was a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1966. She was the wife of cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and mother to their two daughters, Olga and Elena Rostropovich.