More Info on Elina GarancaSimilar Undetermined MusicSearch Artistopia
Biography
Elina Garanca (born September 16, 1976) is a Latvia n operatic mezzo-soprano .
Biography
Garanca was born in the Latvian city of Riga into a musical family, her father a choral director, her mother a lieder singer and singing teacher.cite news |author=Gurewitsch, Matthew |date=June 28, 2009 |title=A Mezzo Kicks Up Her Heels in High Style |newspaper= The New York Times |url= http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/arts/music/28gure.html |accessdate=2010-06-27 cite news |author=Loomis, George |date=January 10, 2008 |title=Opera's Switch Hitter |newspaper= The New York Sun |accessdate=2010-06-27 |url= http://www.nysun.com/arts/operas-switch-hitter/69271/ cite web |url= http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/artist/biography? ART_ID=garel |title=Elina Garanca - Biography |publisher=Deutsche Grammophon |accessdate=2010-08-25 Her mother Anita is a professor at the Latvian Academy of Music , an associated professor at the Latvian Academy of Culture, a vocal music teacher at the Latvian National Opera , and also a private voice tutor.cite web |author=Kuusisaari, Harri |date=July 22, 2009 |url= http://www.mirjamhelin.fi/default.asp? docId=16766 |title=Latvian blonde is eager to alter her image |work=The Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition |publisher=Finnish Cultural Foundation cite web |url= http://anita.garanca.info/en/ |title=Anita Garanca Her brother Janis (aka Jaanis) Garancs, three years older than Elina, started out in music studies, but is now an interactive computer generated visual media artist and consultant.cite web |url= http://garancs.net/en/ |title=Jaanis Garancs |publisher=www.garancs.net
She entered the Latvian Academy of Music in 1996 to study singing with Sergej Martinov. She continued her studies in Vienna with Irina Gavrilovic and in the United States with Virginia Zeani . Garanca began her professional career at the http://www.das-meininger-theater.de Südthüringisches Staatstheater in Meiningen and later worked at the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt|Frankfurt Opera . In 1999 she won the Mirjam Helin Singing Competition in Helsinki , Finland.
Garanca's international breakthrough came in 2003 at the Salzburg Festival|Salzburger Festspiele when she sang Annio in a production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart 's La clemenza di Tito , conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt . Major engagements followed quickly, such as Charlotte in Werther , Dorabella in Così fan tutte at the Vienna State Opera (2004) and Dorabella in a Paris production directed by Patrice Chéreau (2005). In 2006 she returned to La clemenza di Tito , this time singing the part of Sesto. On January 12, 2008, Garanca made her company and house debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York , in the role of Rosina in Gioachino Rossini|Rossini 's The Barber of Seville|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 Rossini's 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".cite news |author=Holland, Bernard |date=January 14, 2008|url= http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/arts/music/14barb.html? ref=music |title=Barreling Through Rossini With a ‘Noises Off’ Rhythm |newspaper= The New York Times |accessdate=2008-01-14 Garanca sang the leading role of Georges Bizet's Carmen in the 2010 production of the Metropolitan Opera . In the opening concert of the 2011 Rheingau Musik Festival in the Eberbach Abbey she performed Alban Berg's Seven Early Songs (Berg)|Sieben frühe Lieder with the hr-Sinfonieorchester , conducted by Paavo Järvi .cite web | url = http://www.op-online.de/nachrichten/kultur/magische-momente-1297759.html | title = Magische Momente |author=Klaus Ackermann |publisher= op-online.de |date=27 June 2011 | accessdate = 27 June 2011de icon
She is married to the conductor Karel Mark Chichon . Their first child, Catherine Louise, was born #dateformat:September 30, 2011.cite web |url = http://eyesometric.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/garanca-baby/ |title = Garanca Baby & laquo; The Eyes Have It |first = |last = |author = |authorlink = |coauthors = |date = 2011-11-15 |month = |year = |work = |publisher = |location = |page = |pages = |at = |language = |trans_title = |format = |arxiv = |asin = |bibcode = |doi = |doibroken = |isbn = |issn = |jfm = |jstor = |lccn = |mr = |oclc = |ol = |osti = |pmc = |embargo = |pmid = |rfc = |ssrn = |zbl = |id = |archiveurl = |archivedate = |deadurl = |accessdate = 2011-12-10 |quote = |ref = |separator = |postscript =
Recordings
Her recordings include the Grammy Award winning Bajazet (opera)|Bajazet conducted by Fabio Biondi , in which she sang the role of Andronico. In 2005 Garanca signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon .
Other recordings include:
Anna Bolena by Donizetti (DVD recording from Vienna State Opera
http://elinagaranca.com elinagaranca.com, official site
http://odb-opera.com/modules.php? name=Content& pa=showpage& pid=79/Elina Elina Garanca at the Opera Database
Persondata | NAME = Garanca, Elina | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = September 16, 1976 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Garanca, Elina Category:1976 births Category:Living people Category:People from Riga Category:Latvian female singers Category:Latvian opera singers Category:Operatic mezzo-sopranos Category:Recipients of the Order of the Three Stars Category:Latvian Academy of Music alumni
