Galina Vishnevskaya, the great Russian soprano and widow of cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, has died at 86.
An obituary by Jonathan Kandell in The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/arts/music/galina-vishnevskaya-electrifying-soprano-dies-at-86.html?adxnnl=1&hpw=&adxnnlx=1355290134-QBFMnj+hZJtMRWvO1Juw1w