• Finalist at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition (2001)
• Prize-winner at the Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition (Helsinki, 1999; 1st prize)
Elīna Garanča was born into a musical family in Riga, Latvia. She began her professional career as a resident artist with the Das Meininger Theater – Südthüringisches Staatstheater where she appeared in many leading roles. She later appeared as a resident artist with Oper Frankfurt. 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.
Among other roles she is particularly famed for her portrayal as Bizet’s Carmen which she has sung at both the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden) and the Metropolitan Opera to critical acclaim. The Carmen production was broadcasted in more than one thousand movie theatres worldwide and is one of the most viewed and successful Live in HD performances of the Metropolitan Opera.
Recent highlights include a new production of Samson et Dalila at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin with Daniel Barenboim where Elīna stared as Dalila, her return to the Metropolitan Opera as Marguerite in La Damnation de Faust, as well as her debut as Kundry in the new production of Wagner’s Parsifal, premiering at the Vienna State Opera with Philippe Jordan in April 2021. During the 2021–22 season Elīna made her role debut as the Princess de Bouillon in Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur at the Vienna State Opera.
In September 2005 Elīna became an exclusive artist with Deutsche Grammophon. Her first solo recording Aria Cantilena was released in March 2007 to great popular and critical acclaim. Two of her previous albums (Romantique and Meditation) both won an ECHO KLASSIK award. Her album Sol y Vida was released in May 2019 and has been unanimously praised by the critics: “Garanča’s selection of flamboyant Mediterranean and Latin American songs is a predictably good fit for her ripe and beguiling timbre” (Gramophone). In November 2020 she released her first solo recital album, featuring Schumann’s song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben and a selection of Brahms’ songs.
Elīna has been the recipient of Midem’s “Singer of the Year” (2007), Musical America’s “Vocalist of the Year” (2010), four ECHO KLASSIK awards (2007, 2009, 2013, 2015) and an OPUS KLASSIK award (2020). In May 2013 Elīna was honoured by the Vienna State Opera with the title of Kammersängerin. Recipient of the Onegin National Opera Award (2021).
Elīna appears regularly at the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), the Salzburg Festival, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, New York’s Carnegie Hall and London’s Wigmore Hall and continues to perform in various concerts, festivals and recitals all over the world.
Information for November 2021
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