"The 21-year-old Tamara Sinyavskaya becomes a lead singer at the Bolshoi becoming the youngest diva in the entire history of Russia's oldest music theater.

Still a student, Sinyavskaya, using her amazingly beautiful voice and workaholic attitude, she took just a couple of months to learn several leading parts and was now fully in a position to aspire for a star-status at the Bolshoi.
 

Tamara Sinyavskaya still remains a jewel in the crown of the Bolshoi Opera company. Each time she walks out on stage is a real celebration for her numerous admirers.

In the same year the 22-year-old baritone from Azerbaijan, Muslim Magomayev - Tamara Sinyavskaya's husband-to-be - stunned Moscow first with some absolutely virtuosic performance of operatic arias and then moved on to sing pop songs. The success was absolutely deafening!"