Natalia Yermolenko-Yuzhina

as Venus in "Tannhauser" by Wagner

Natalia Yermolenko-Yuzhina
1881-1936
Russian Soprano

Studied in Kiev with Zotova and in Paris with Paul Vidal. Debut at Kiev as Lisa in The Queen of Spades in 1900 and contracted to the Marinsky Opera 1901-1905 .From 1905-1915 she sang with the Bolshoi opera except for 2 years with Zimmins opera . returned to the Marinsky from 1915-1920,She was married to the Tenor David Yuzhin , In 1924 she settled in Paris .Her roles included Valentine “Les Huguenots” , Tamara “The Demon” , Masha “Daubeovsky” , Judith “Judith” , Jaroslavna “‘Prince Igor” and Guntrune “Das Rhiengold”