Elina Garanca
Elīna Garanča (born 16 September 1976) is a Latvian mezzo-soprano. She began to study singing in her hometown of Riga in 1996 and continued her studies in Vienna and in the United States. By 1999 she had won first place in the Mirjam Helin Singing Competition in Helsinki and had begun a career in Europe. Worldwide engagements followed her 2003 Salzburg Festival appearances.
Genre: opera, classical-mezzo-soprano
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Top Tracks
- Lakmé / Act 1: "Dôme épais" - Live
- Cavalleria rusticana: "Voi lo sapete, o mamma"
- Samson et Dalila, Op. 47, R. 288 / Act II: "Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix"
- Bachianas brasileiras No. 5 for Soprano and Cellos: Aria (Cantilena)
- Adelson e Salvini / Act I: "Dopo l'oscuro nembo"
- Carmen, WD 31 / Act I: "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Havanaise)
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann / Act II: Barcarolle
- Lucrezia Borgia / Act II: "Il segreto per esser felici"
- Las Hijas del Zebedeo: Carceleras
- Carmen, WD 31 / Act I: Séguedille et Duo: "Près des remparts de Séville"
- Les Troyens, H 133 / Act V: "Ah! Ah! Je vais mourir ... Adieu, fière cité"
- Carmen / Act II: Chanson: "Les tringles des sistres tintaient"
- Wagner: Parsifal: Akt I: He! Ho! Waldhüter ihr
- Messa da Requiem - Edited David Rosen: 2a. Dies Irae
- La clemenza di Tito, K. 621 / Act I: "Parto, ma tu ben mio"
- Werther / Act III: "Va! Laisse couler mes larmes"
- Adriana Lecouvreur / Act II: "Acerba voluttà, dolce tortura ... O vagabonda stella d'Oriente"
- Wagner: Parsifal: Akt I: Ja, wann oft lange sie uns fern blieb
- Wagner: Parsifal: Akt I: He, du da! Was liegst du dort
- Wagner: Parsifal: Akt I: Er naht, sie bringen ihn getragen
Albums (33)
- Wagner: Parsifal (Live) (2024)
- Wagner: Parsifal / Act II: Ich sah das Kind an seiner Mutter Brust (Live) (2024)
- When Night Falls ... (2024)
- Gallardo del Rey: Canción de cuna (2024)
- Pauls: Aicinajums (Transcr. for Mezzosoprano and Piano) (2024)
- Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder / Mahler: Rückert Lieder (Live from Salzburg) (2021)
- Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91: III. Im Treibhaus (Orch. Mottl) [Live from Salzburg] (2021)
- Mahler: Rückert Lieder: I. Ich atmet' einen linden Duft (Live from Salzburg) (2021)
- Beethoven: Zärtliche Liebe, WoO 123 "Ich liebe dich" (Musical Moments) (2020)
- Schumann & Brahms Lieder (2020)
- Brahms: 5 Gesänge, Op. 72: III. O kühler Wald (2020)
- Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42: III. Ich kann's nicht fassen, nicht glauben (2020)
- Elgar: Sea Pictures. Falstaff (2020)
- Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op. 37: IV. Where Corals Lie (2020)
- Sol y Vida (2019)
- Parra: Gracias a la vida (Arr. del Rey) (2019)
- Lara: Granada (Arr. Chichon) (2019)
- Elina Garanca sings Mozart & Vivaldi (2017)
- Revive (2016)
- Meditation (2014)
- Mozart Jubileum (2013)
- The Best Of Elina Garanca (2013)
- Verdi: Requiem (Live In Milan / 2012) (2013)
- Verdi: Requiem (2013)
- Romantique (2012)
- Habanera (2010)
- Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Live) (2009)
- Bel Canto (2009)
- Souvenirs (2008)
- Pre-Release Duets Album & Aria Cantilena (2007)
- Das Mozart-Album (2006)
- Aria Cantilena (2006)
- Opera Arias (Favourite): Garanca, Elina - Mozart, W.A. / Rossini, G. / Bellini, V. / Donizetti, G. / Massenet, J. (2001)
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