Yevgeniya Mravina

Mravina sang the role of Oksana in the premiere of Christmas Eve (Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, 1895).

Yevgeniya Konstantinovna Mravinskaya , better known by her stage name Yevgeniya or Evgenia Mravina (; – ) was a Russian lyric soprano, a half sister of revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai and the aunt of conductor Yevgeny Mravinsky.

Life Born in Saint Petersburg, Mravina studied there with Ippolit Pryanishnikov, then in Berlin with Désirée Artôt and in Paris with Mathilde Marchesi. She made her debut in the role of Gilda in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto at Vittorio Veneto in August 1885 She made three European tours—in 1891–1892, 1902–1903 and 1906—but by the last tour her voice and health were already deteriorating.

Roles Mravina was noted particularly for roles which required virtuoso singing and conveyed a good deal of her characters' ardent natures. Later, when Medea Figner was to be replaced by Mariya Sionitskaya, Tchaikovsky regretted that Mravina could not sing the role.

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