Natalia Troitskaya was a Russian operatic soprano who had a major international career during the 1980s and early 1990s. She particularly excelled in the operas of Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi. Among her signature roles were Tatyana in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and the title heroines in Verdi's Aida, Puccini's Manon Lescaut, and Puccini's Tosca. She was a frequent partner of Pl�cido Domingo during the 1980s and also sang opposite other great artists like Montserrat Caball�, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Luciano Pavarotti. [More at Wikipedia]

May 18th, 1951 in Belgrade  /  Died:   Apr 9th, 2006 - at age 55