Elina Garanca

Elina Garanca was born on 16 September 1976(48 years old) in Latvia. Elina Garanca is Opera Singer, Zodiac sign - Virgo. More detail about Elina Garanca given below.

Elina Garanca Timeline

• 1996
  

  She entered the Latvian Academy of Music in 1996 to study singing with Sergej Martinov. She continued her studies in Vienna with Irina Gavrilovici and in the United States with Virginia Zeani. Garanu010da began her professional career at the Meiningen Court Theatre, Meiningen, Germany in 1998, and later worked at the Frankfurt Opera. In 1999, she won the Mirjam Helin Singing Competition in Helsinki, Finland.

• 2003
  

  Garanu010dau0027s international breakthrough came in 2003 at the Salzburger Festspiele when she sang Annio in a production of Mozartu0027s La clemenza di Tito, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Major engagements followed quickly, such as Charlotte in Werther, Dorabella in Cosu00ec fan tutte at the Vienna State Opera (2004) and Dorabella in a Paris production directed by Patrice Chu00e9reau (2005). In 2006, she returned to La clemenza di Tito, this time singing the part of Sesto. On 12 January 2008 Garanu010da made her company and house debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, in the role of Rosina in Rossiniu0027s 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 Rossiniu0027s 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". Garanu010da sang the leading role of Georges Bizetu0027s Carmen in the 2010 and 2015 productions of the Metropolitan Opera. In the opening concert of the 2011 Rheingau Musik Festival in the Eberbach Abbey she performed Alban Bergu0027s Sieben fru00fche Lieder with the hr-Sinfonieorchester, conducted by Paavo Ju00e4rvi.

• 2005
  

  Her recordings include the Grammy Award winning Bajazet conducted by Fabio Biondi, in which she sang the role of Andronicus. In 2005, Garanu010da signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon.

• 2018
  

  In May 2018 Garanu010da made her stage role debut as Dalila in Camille Saint-Sau00ebnsu0027 Samson et Dalila at Wiener Staatsoper conducted by Marco Armiliato.