Maria Lukyanovna Bieşu, an outstanding singer of the Soviet opera stage, the owner of a gorgeous voice, performed Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Mimi, Nedda and many other operatic roles for almost the entire second half of the XX century. Bieşu’s life is like a ready-made film script of the early period of Soviet cinema with all its stilted clichés and poster implausibility: a simple peasant woman, competing in the beauty of singing with birds in the Moldovan fields, leaves her native village and gets on the big stage (the stage of the Bolshoi), becoming the favourite of the country and a member of the government. But with one difference: instead of a happy ending, life prepared her for a tragic one, overshadowed by diseases, loneliness and poverty. In the article, Bieşu appears at the zenith of her career, not only caressed by the authorities and awarded almost every conceivable award of the country but also as a soft, vulnerable human sacrificed for the sake of his career many of life’s joys. Our attention focuses on a trip with the singer to distant Brazil, where Maria Bieşu represented the Soviet Union in the work of the prestigious international vocal competition jury and performed a solo concert.