Елина Гаранча (Елина Гаранча) |

Elina Garanca

Elina Garancha entered the Latvian Academy of Music in Riga in 1996, and since 1998 she continued her studies with Irina Gavrilovich in Austria and Virginia Zeani in the USA. In 1999 she won the competition Miriam Helin in Helsinki, and in 2001 became a finalist of the prestigious international competition of opera singers in Cardiff, held under the auspices of Air force. The singer began her professional career in Germany on the stages of the Meiningen and Frankfurt Opera Houses.

Since January 2003, Elina Garancha has been a soloist of the Vienna Opera, where she has mastered a fairly large repertoire, including Die Fledermaus by J. Strauss and Hoffmann’s Tales by Offenbach. In France, she first appeared at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées (Angelina in Rossini’s Cinderella), and then at the Paris Opera (Octavian in R. Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier and Sextus). In 2007, the singer performed the part of Carmen for the first time on the stage of the Latvian National Opera. In the same year, she made her debuts at the Berlin State Opera (Sext) and at Covent Garden in London (Dorabella), and in 2008 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (Rosina) and at the Bavarian Opera in Munich (Adalgisa).

On the Deutsche Grammophone with Elina Garancha published on CD and a complete audio recording of Capuleti and Montecchi (with Netrebko-Juliet), made from a concert performance in Vienna Concert hall.

Among other significant works of the singer in the field of sound recording, one should mention her first solo disc “Favorite Arias” (2001) and albums of 2004 – a studio recording of “Bayazet” by Vivaldi (Andronicus) and a recording of a concert performance in Baden-Baden of “Norma” by Bellini (Adalgisa) , where bel canto superdiva of our time Edita Gruberova performed in the title role. Rossini in the imprinted work of Garanchi is represented by a live audio recording of The Barber of Seville (Rosina) from a concert in Munich (2005). In the same year, her second solo disc, Mozart’s Opera and Concert Arias, was released. The third album called “Aria cantilena” appeared in 2007. The DVD collection with the participation of the singer includes Mozart’s “Charity of Titus” from the Salzburg Festival in 2003 (Annius) and “That’s what everyone does” from the Festival in Aix-en-Provence in 2005 (Dorabella), as well as the Viennese “Werther” in 2005 (Charlotte ).