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Elina Garanca (born September 16, 1976) is a Latvian mezzo-soprano.
into a musical family in Riga, Garanca entered the Latvian Academy of Music in 1996 to study singing with Sergej Martinov. She continued her studies in Vienna with Irina Gavrilovic and in the United States with Virginia Zeani. Garanca began her professional career at the Südthüringisches Staatstheater in Meiningen and later worked at the Frankfurt Opera.
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Elina Garanca (born September 16, 1976) is a Latvian mezzo-soprano.
Biography
Born into a musical family in Riga, Garanca entered the Latvian Academy of Music in 1996 to study singing with Sergej Martinov. She continued her studies in Vienna with Irina Gavrilovic and in the United States with Virginia Zeani. Garanca began her professional career at the Südthüringisches Staatstheater in Meiningen and later worked at the Frankfurt Opera. In 1999 she won the Mirjam Helin Singing Competition in Helsinki, Finland
Garanca's international breakthrough came in 2003 at the Salzburger Festspiele when she sang Annio in a production of Mozart's La clemenza di Tito, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Major engagements followed quickly, such as Charlotte in Werther, Dorabella in Così fan tutte at the Vienna State Opera (2004) and Dorabella in a Paris production directed by Patrice Chéreau (2005). In 2006 she returned to La clemenza di Tito, this time singing the part of Sesto. On January 12, 2008, Garanca made her company and house debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, in the role of Rosina in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia. Of her debut, Bernard Holland wrote in The New York Times: "Ms. Garanca is the real thing (...) Modern singing techniques adapt with difficulty to Rossini’s early-19th-century emphasis on speed, lightness and athletic articulation, and Ms. Garanca was the only one onstage sounding completely comfortable. The lyric passages sang out; the episodes of racecourse delivery were fully in hand."
Recordings
Her recordings include the Grammy Award winning Bajazet conducted by Fabio Biondi, in which she sang the role of Andronico. In 2005 Garanca signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon.
Listen
To hear Elina Garanca sing the role of Rosina from Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia click on this link:
External links
- , official site
- at the Opera Database
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