Yuliya Platonova

Yuliya Feodorovna Platonova or Julia Platonova (Юлия Фёдоровна Платонова, née Garder, 1841—1892) was a Russian soprano, known for performances at Imperial Theatres in St. Petersburg. She is considered as one of the most important figures that created Russian opera, at a whole. Music teacher.

Repertory
Among more than 50 of her roles, the most notable were the following:
 * Antonida (A Life for the Tsar),
 * Elvira (I puritani),
 * Natasha (Rusalka),
 * Lyudmila (Ruslan and Lyudmila),
 * Katerina (The Storm, by Vladimir Kashperov, 1867),
 * Adalgisa (Norma),
 * Elsa (Lohengrin),
 * Maria (William Ratcliff),
 * Berthe (Le prophète),
 * Halka (Halka),
 * Mařenka (The Bartered Bride),
 * Dasha (The Power of the Fiend),
 * Valentine (Les Huguenots),
 * Donna Anna (The Stone Guest),
 * Donna Anna (Don Giovanni),
 * Olga (The Maid of Pskov),
 * Marina Mnishek (Boris Godunov),
 * Elisabeth (Tannhäuser).