Elīna garanca height
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Biography
“Only a mere handful [of singers] combine beauty of voice, technical excellence and searching musicianship, alongside that indefinable magic called charisma or star quality – but among that supreme élite … Elīna Garanča must surely have a high place.” The Daily Telegraph
Born into a musical family in the Latvian capital Riga, Elīna Garanča entered the Latvian Academy of Music at the age of 20 and was soon on her way to becoming one of the world’s most outstanding mezzo-sopranos. She started as she meant to go on: while still a student she stepped in at just ten days’ notice to perform the role of Giovanna Seymour in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, uncovering a love affair with the bel canto repertoire which has since seen her through countless breathtaking performances.
When she graduated from the Academy she joined the Meiningen Staatstheater in Germany, appeared as a resident artist with the Frankfurt Opera, sang at the Savonlinna Opera Festival, was a finalist in the 2001 BBC’s Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and won the Mirjam Helin Singing Competition in F
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Elīna Garanča was born into a musical family in Riga, Latvia. She began her professional career as a resident artist with the Südthüringischer Staatstheater in Meiningen, followed by the Opera in Frankfurt am Main and Wiener Staatsoper, in each theatre appearing in numerous leading roles.
Since then, Elīna has established herself as one of the music world’s major stars through her performances with leading opera companies and symphony orchestras around the world. She has captured critical and popular acclaim for her beautiful voice, intelligent musicianship, and compelling stage portrayals.
Among other roles, she is particularly famed for her portrayal as Bizet’s Carmen which she has sung in the majority of leading theatres, like Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Bayerische Staatsoper, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía Valencia, or Metropolitan Opera to critical acclaim; the NY Times named her “the finest Carmen in 25 years…”. The Met Carmen production was broadcasted in more than 1,000 movie theatres worldwide and is one of the most viewed and successful “Live in HD” performan
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Elīna Garanča
Elīna Garanča was born into a family of musicians in Riga. She began her career at the Meiningen State Theatre, and then joined the ensembles of Frankfurt Opera and Vienna State Opera, where she appeared in many principal roles. Since then she has established a reputation as one of the most sought-after and successful singers in the classical music profession, and has performed at the most important opera houses and with the foremost orchestras in the world.
Since 2005 Elīna Garanča has been an exclusive artist with Deutsche Grammophon. Her most recent releases are her first Lieder Album, featuring Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -leben and a selection of Brahms songs, followed by the album Live from Salzburg, released in December 2021, which covers two unique events from the Salzburg Festivals of summer 2020 and 2021, featuring the Vienna Philharmonic and Christian Thielemann.
In the 2019/20 season, she performed Dalila in a new production of Samson et Dalila at the Berlin State Opera under Daniel Barenboim, returned to the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Mar
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