Yuliya Platonova
Юлия Платонова
Born	Yuliya Feodorovna Garder 1841 (1841) Riga, Latvia, Russian Empire
Died	(1892-11-04)November 4, 1892 St. Petersburg, Russian Empire

Yuliya Feodorovna Platonova or Julia Platonova^[a] (Russian: Юлия Фёдоровна Платонова, romanized: Yuliya Feodorovna Platonova, 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.

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).^[2]