Yuliya Feodorovna Platonova or Julia Platonova ( rus, Юлия Фёдоровна Платонова, Yuliya Feodorovna Platonova, née Garder, 1841—1892) was a Russian soprano, known for performances at

Imperial Theatres Imperial Theatres of Russian Empire ( rus, Императорские театры Российской империи) was a theatrical organization financed by the Imperial exchequer and managed by a single directorate headed with a director; was ...

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 ' (''The Puritans'') is an 1835 opera by Vincenzo Bellini. It was originally written in two acts and later changed to three acts on the advice of Gioachino Rossini, with whom the young composer had become friends. The music was set to a libretto ...

''), * Natasha ('' Rusalka''), * Lyudmila ('' Ruslan and Lyudmila''), * Katerina ('' The Storm'', by , 1867), * Adalgisa (''

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''), * Elsa (''

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''), * Maria ('' William Ratcliff''), * Berthe (''

Le prophète ''Le prophète'' (''The Prophet'') is a grand opera in five acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer, which was premiered in Paris on 16 April 1849. The French-language libretto was by Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps, after passages from the ''Essay on the ...

''), * Halka (''

Halka ''Halka'' is an opera by Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko to a libretto written by Włodzimierz Wolski, a young Warsaw poet with radical social views. It is part of the canon of Polish national operas. Performance history The first perf ...

''), * Mařenka (''

The Bartered Bride ''The Bartered Bride'' ( cz, Prodaná nevěsta, links=no, ''The Sold Bride'') is a comic opera in three acts by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, to a libretto by Karel Sabina. The work is generally regarded as a major contribution towards the ...

''), * Dasha (''

The Power of the Fiend ''The Power of the Fiend'' (russian: Вражья сила, ''Vrazhya sila'') is an opera in five acts by Alexander Serov, composed during 1867-1871. The libretto is derived from a drama by Alexander Ostrovsky from 1854 entitled '' Live Not As You ...

''), * Valentine (''

Les Huguenots () is an opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer and is one of the most popular and spectacular examples of grand opera. In five acts, to a libretto by Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps, it premiered in Paris on 29 February 1836. Composition history ...

''), * Donna Anna ('' The Stone Guest''), * Donna Anna ('' Don Giovanni''), * Olga (''

The Maid of Pskov ''The Maid of Pskov'' (russian: Псковитянка, Pskovityanka, links=no, Pskov female resident ), also known as ''Ivan the Terrible'', is an 1872 opera originally in three acts (six scenes) by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto is by the ...

''), * Marina Mnishek ('' Boris Godunov''), * Elisabeth (''

Tannhäuser Tannhäuser (; gmh, Tanhûser), often stylized, "The Tannhäuser," was a German Minnesinger and traveling poet. Historically, his biography, including the dates he lived, is obscure beyond the poetry, which suggests he lived between 1245 and ...

'').

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Platonova, Yuliya 1841 births Musicians from Riga Russian operatic sopranos 19th-century women opera singers from the Russian Empire 1892 deaths