Stravinsky was also known as an active advocate of Mykola Lysenko's music, often performing the role of Mykola in the opera Natalka Poltavka.
Lysenko wrote a number of operatic works, including Natalka Poltavka, Utoplena (The Drowned Woman, after Gogol's May Night) and Taras Bulba.
Among her main roles as performer is Natalka, from Natalka Poltavka by Mykola Lysenko, Oksana, from The Zaporozhets Beyond the Danube by Gulak-Artemovskii), and Liuba Shevtsova, from The Young Guards by Yuliy Meitus.