was a Ukrainian contralto who had active performance career in operas from the late 1860s through the early 1880s.
[1] Born in Kyiv, Nataliya Oleksandrivna Mykhaylovska was trained as an opera singer at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory where she was a student from 1864 through 1867.
She made her professional opera debut in the very first performance given by the National Opera of Ukraine (NOU) on October 27, 1867; a staging of Alexey Verstovsky's Askold's Grave.
During the 1870s and early 1880s she also performed at opera houses in Odesa, Tiflis, Kazan, and Saint Petersburg.
[1] Mykhaylovska's repertoire included Adalgisa in Bellini's Norma, Amneris in Verdi's Aida, Azucena in Il trovatore, Marthe in Gounod's Faust, Nancy in Flotow's Martha, Ratmir in Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila, Vanya in A Life for the Tsar, and the title role in Lysenko's Natalka Poltavka.