Every few years a soprano comes along from the Russian landscape that has a big and steely sound to take on the most challenging music of Giuseppe Verdi. She then is proclaimed the "Verdi soprano" for which the opera world has been impatiently waiting. Then after singing a few seasons at the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala and Covent Garden, that artist slips into obscurity or suffers major vocal decline. Here are some examples:
And will this latest Russian export to be proclaimed the leading diva of Verdi be the next victim?
| Galina Gorchakova | Ljuba Kazarnovskaya |
| "Pace, pace mio Dio" | "Ecco l'orrido" |
| La Forza del Destino | Un Ballo in Maschera |
| Maria Guleghina | Marina Mescheriakova |
| "Santo di Patria" | "Tu che le vanità" |
| Attila | Don Carlo |
And will this latest Russian export to be proclaimed the leading diva of Verdi be the next victim?
Marina Poplavskaya
"Mia madre aveva una povera ancella"
Otello
