Elīna Garanča
Elīna Garanča is a Latvian opera singer. She 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” performances of the Metropolitan Opera.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.2381 |
| Birthday | 1976-09-16 |
| Place of Birth | Riga, Latvia |
| Also Known As | Elīna Garanča, Elina Garanča, Elīna Garanča, Elīna Garanca, Elina Garanca, Elina Garança, |
2019
Verdi-Requiem mit Riccardo Muti
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Verdi-Requiem mit Riccardo Muti
2007
Die Operngala der Stars (Baden Baden 2007)
10/1
Deutsche Grammophon proudly presents the new faces of the opera world in a glamorous new live concert DVD: Anna Netrebko, Elına Garanca, Ramón Vargas...
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Die Operngala der Stars (Baden Baden 2007)
2011
Salzburg Festival Opening Concert
0/0
This recording features the opening concert of the Salzburg Festival in 2010, in which the Festival celebrated its 90th anniversary and the 50th anniv...
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Salzburg Festival Opening Concert
2023
Richard Wagner: "Parsifal" Bayreuther Festspiele 2023
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The Bayreuth Festival 2023 will open with the premiere of Wagner's "Parsifal". Jay Scheib is directing, and Pablo Heras-Casado is the musical director...
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Richard Wagner: "Parsifal" Bayreuther Festspiele 2023
2010
Bizet: Carmen
7.7/3
Richard Eyre’s stunning new production of Bizet’s opera was the talk of the town when it was unveiled on New Year’s Eve 2009. Elīna Garanča leads the...
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Bizet: Carmen
2023
Don Carlo
0/0
Premiere of the 23/24 season at the Teatro La Scala of Milan, broadcast live. The story of Verdi's opera is based on conflicts in the life of Carlos,...
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Don Carlo
2009
Rossini: La Cenerentola
3.3/4
"Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in this delightful Metropolitan Opera production. "As clo...
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Rossini: La Cenerentola
2011
Donizetti: Anna Bolena
8/1
Gaetano Donizetti and his librettist Felice Romani kept the focus of their opera ANNA BOLENA on the personal rather than the political in this fiction...
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Donizetti: Anna Bolena
2021
Perpetuum mobile. Raimonds Pauls
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Raimonds Pauls is almost 85 years old, rehearses almost every day and performs at least once a week. What drives him? Not only he is the most popular...
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Perpetuum mobile. Raimonds Pauls
2021
Parsifal
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The male circle of the Grail Knights is in crisis. Time and again, knights desert to the counter-realm of the sorcerer Klingsor, who had previously be...
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Parsifal
2001
Primadonna on Rollerskates
10/1
She is young and beautiful. But a film portrait is more grateful to the life story of a person whose greatest works are already behind them... If the...
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Primadonna on Rollerskates
2021
Christmas in Vienna – Glanzlichter
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The traditional Christmas concert enchants every year with classic and popular Christmas music from all over the world. The most touching program high...
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Christmas in Vienna – Glanzlichter
2022
Carmen aus der Arena von Verona
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"Carmen", one of the most popular operas in the world, in the grandiose setting of the Verona Arena. The special open-air atmosphere of the ancient am...
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Carmen aus der Arena von Verona
2022
Georges Bizet: Carmen
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One of the most successful operas in the world will open the 99th Opera Festival in Verona in the summer of 2022: "Carmen" will transform the famous a...
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Georges Bizet: Carmen
2018
Berliner Philharmoniker: Sir Simon Rattle & Elina Garanca in Baden-Baden
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In this Baden-Baden concert, Simon Rattle presents a sonorous snapshot of the European music scene in the early 20th century. It includes Richard Stra...
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Berliner Philharmoniker: Sir Simon Rattle & Elina Garanca in Baden-Baden
2006
La Clemenza di Tito
8/2
The 1791 La Clemenza di Tito (or 'The Clemency of Titus') marked Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's final opera seria. With a libretto by Metastasio (edited sl...
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La Clemenza di Tito
2013
Messiah
9/1
This is an exhilarating experience both visually and aurally. How wonderful that Barenboim is havng such success with Verdi this late in his career.Th...
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Messiah
2005
Così fan tutte
9/1
Live performance from the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, 23 July 2005.
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Così fan tutte
2017
Der Rosenkavalier
7/1
In his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscoring the opera’s subtext of class and conflict again...
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Der Rosenkavalier
2011
Beethoven · Missa Solemnis (Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann)
7/1
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Beethoven · Missa Solemnis (Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann)
2017
Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's Don Carlos
0/0
Set in 16th-century France and Spain, Don Carlos tells of the political and amorous rivalry between King Philip II and his son, Don Carlos, over Elisa...
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Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's Don Carlos
2012
The Metropolitan Opera: La Clemenza di Tito
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Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s dramatic production brings ancient Rome to life for this gripping tale of revenge, terror, and attempted murder. Giuseppe Filia...
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The Metropolitan Opera: La Clemenza di Tito
2016
Mascagni: Cavallera Rusticana
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A small village in Sicily, Easter Sunday. A despondent Santuzza searches for Turiddu, the man she loves. Before leaving for the army he was in love wi...
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Mascagni: Cavallera Rusticana
2018
The Metropolitan Opera: Samson et Dalila
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A towering biblical epic, Saint-Saëns’s operatic take on the story of Samson and Delilah has many of the hallmarks of grand opera—show-stopping vocal...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Samson et Dalila
2015
Donizetti - La Favorite
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Donizetti's French masterpiece was in the hands of Italian conductor Antonello Allemandi. This maestro, a bel canto specialist, captured the fire and...
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Donizetti - La Favorite
2005
Werther
0/0
The production was the Vienna State Opera debut for the young Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan – the Argentinian tenor Marcelo Álvarez, took the title...
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Werther
2020
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
9/1
In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere during the Met’s closure, the company presented an unp...
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Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
2016
The Metropolitan Opera: Roberto Devereux
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Celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Metropolitan Opera's Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD. The broadcast of Donizetti's Ro...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Roberto Devereux
2011
Mozart - La Clemenza di Tito
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Arthaus presents a truly new way of looking at La clemenza di Tito with this famous and star-studded production from the Salzburg Festival 2003. Here...
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Mozart - La Clemenza di Tito
2020
A riveder le stelle
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"Lucia de Lammermoor" should actually have opened this year's season. But Corona prevents the title heroine from stabbing her bridegroom to death in h...
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A riveder le stelle
2017
Carmen - Opéra National de Paris
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The first words uttered by Carmen mark one of the greatest entrances in the history of opera and express all that need be said: “Love is a rebellious...
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Carmen - Opéra National de Paris
2010
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2010
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The annual New Year’s Eve Concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music fan in Berlin and beyond. On New Year‘s Eve, the B...
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The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2010
2024
Samson Et Dalila
0/0
Pious restraint comes face to face with sensuous hedonism in Camille Saint-Saëns’s grand-opera retelling of the Bible story of Samson and Delilah. Mul...
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Samson Et Dalila
2022
Don Carlo
0/0
The 2022 Don Carlo at the Teatro di San Carlo, staged by Claus Guth, offers a contemporary, psychologically driven interpretation of Verdi's opera. Se...
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Don Carlo
2023
Summer Night Concert from Vienna – 2023
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The Vienna Philharmonic's annual Summer Night Concert from the spectacular Schönbrunn Palace Gardens.
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Summer Night Concert from Vienna – 2023
Symphony of Life
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As the world of opera begins to shift its rules, Elīna Garanča stands at the peak of her career, already starting to plan how to bring it to a close—w...
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Symphony of Life
2025
Le Concert de Paris 2025
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For the 13th edition of the Concert de Paris, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, the Orchestre national de France, the Choeur and Maîtrise de Radio Fran...
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Le Concert de Paris 2025
Verdi: Messa da Requiem - Barenboim
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A Verdi Requiem with a dream line-up of soloists and the forces of La Scala, Milan, directed by one of the greatest maestros of our time. Preceding a...
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Verdi: Messa da Requiem - Barenboim
2025
Vienna Opera Gala With Elina Garança, Sonya Yoncheva, Benjamin Bernheim and Jonas Kaufmann
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The Vienna State Opera celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Second Austrian Republic in the Burggarten gardens and offers a preview of the 2025–2026...
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Vienna Opera Gala With Elina Garança, Sonya Yoncheva, Benjamin Bernheim and Jonas Kaufmann
2025
Elīna Garanča sings “Carmen” @ Neuschwanstein Concerts 2025
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Latvian mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča is one of the greatest voices of our time. Accompanied by the CHAARTS ensemble, she performs the most beautiful ar...
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Elīna Garanča sings “Carmen” @ Neuschwanstein Concerts 2025
2021
Elīna Garanča @ Lucerne Festival 2025
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Since its founding in 2003, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra has established itself as a benchmark in the interpretation of Mahler. The composer's Symph...
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Elīna Garanča @ Lucerne Festival 2025
Bizet's Carmen
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Live Opera performance of Georges Bizet's Carmen. Directed by Calixto Bieito
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Bizet's Carmen
2024
Verdi: Messa da Requiem
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