Raisa Gorbacheva for two months under the supervision of Professor Thomas Buechner, a leading haematologist. However, she died on 20 September aged 67. Her body was repatriated to Russia and interred at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. In 2006, her family founded the Raisa Gorbacheva Foundation, which raises money to support those with childhood cancer. Raisa Gorbacheva Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva ( "Raisa Maksimovna Gorbachyova", , Титаре́нко; 5 January 1932 – 20 September 1999) was a Russian activist who was the wife of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. She raised funds for the preservation of Russian cultural heritage, fostering of new talent, and treatment
Rosa Raisa to compose the final scene from Puccini's sketches. The premiere was on 25 April 1926 with Raisa as Turandot, Miguel Fleta, the acclaimed Spanish tenor as Calaf, and Maria Zamboni, a Scala lyric soprano, cast as Liu, replacing Edith Mason who was pregnant. It is at this performance that Toscanini stopped the performance at the place Puccini stopped composing, addressing the audience with essentially these words "here is where the Maestro died." John Gutman of the Metropolitan Opera in a 1962 interview with Raisa asked her if the artists knew that Toscanini would make this gesture. Raisa said that there