Lyubov Kazarnovskaya

She made her professional debut in 1981 as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin at the Stanislavsky Opera Theatre.

Her Metropolitan Opera debut was on 26 December 1992 as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin.

She sang the role in three performances that season and returned there in the 1994 season when she sang Desdemona in Otello and Nedda in Pagliacci[2] In 1989 she married the opera producer from Austria Robert Rostsik.

They met when Robert came to listen to a young generation of Russian singers.

When the singer came to audition in Vienna they began a romantic relationship that led to a wedding.