Hanna Krushelnytska

Hanna Krushelnytska of the Sas coat of arms (; 18 August 1887 – 13 May 1965) was a Ukrainian opera and concert singer (soprano). Sister of Solomiya Krushelnytska.

Biography His father, Amvrosii Krushelnytskyi, was a Greek Catholic priest and public figure. His mother, Teodora-Mariia Savchynska, was the daughter of priest and writer . His godfather was Oleksandr Barvinsky, a public and political figure in Galicia, historian, and educator.

She graduated from the Lviv Higher Music Institute (1904) and the Milan Conservatory (1912). From 1907 to 1914, she sang on opera stages in Warsaw, Lviv, Milan, Venice, Rome, and elsewhere.

From 1914 to 1928, she also performed as a concert singer. She took part in anniversary concerts dedicated to Taras Shevchenko (1901–1906), Mykola Lysenko (1903), and Ivan Franko (1913) in Lviv.

As a result of the stress she experienced, she was treated for a nervous disorder with the help of her sister Solomiya.

She is buried in Lviv, in section 4 of the Lychakiv Cemetery.

Creativity, repertoire She had a "cello" timbre and extensive vocal training.

Opera roles Natalka, Marusia (Natalka Poltavka, Black Sea Cossacks by Mykola Lysenko), Oksana (Zaporozhets za Dunayem by Semen Hulak-Artemovskyi), Irys (Irys by Pietro Mascagni), Sieglinde, Elisabeth (Die Walküre, Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner), Micaëla (Carmen by Georges Bizet), Mimi (La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini).

Concert repertoire She performed works by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Richard Wagner, Vasyl Barvinsky, Mykola Lysenko, Stanislav Lyudkevych, Ostap Nyzhankivsky, and Denys Sichinskyi.

Records She recorded three Ukrainian songs on gramophone records: "Z moho tyazhkogo boliu", "Oi misiatsiu, misiachenku", and "Shyroky list na dubochku" (Lviv, Gramophone, 1904, 1905).