Elina Garanca

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.

Cast

Verdi-Requiem mit Riccardo Muti

(Self - Mezzo-soprano)

Die Operngala der Stars (Baden Baden 2007)

Salzburg Festival Opening Concert

(Self - Mezzo)

Richard Wagner: "Parsifal" Bayreuther Festspiele 2023

(Kundry)

Bizet: Carmen

(Carmen)

Don Carlo

(Eboli)

Rossini: La Cenerentola

(Angelina / Cenerentola)

Donizetti: Anna Bolena

(Giovanna Seymour)

Perpetuum mobile. Raimonds Pauls

(Self)

Christmas in Vienna – Glanzlichter

(Self)

Parsifal

(Kundry)

Primadonna on Rollerskates

(Self)

Carmen aus der Arena von Verona

(Carmen)

Georges Bizet: Carmen

(Carmen)

Berliner Philharmoniker: Sir Simon Rattle & Elina Garanca in Baden-Baden

(mezzo-soprano)

La Clemenza di Tito

(Annio)

Messiah

Così fan tutte

(Dorabella)

Der Rosenkavalier

(Octavian)

Beethoven · Missa Solemnis (Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann)

(Herself)

Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's Don Carlos

(La Princesse Eboli)

The Metropolitan Opera: La Clemenza di Tito

(Sesto)

Mascagni: Cavallera Rusticana

(Santuzza)

The Metropolitan Opera: Samson et Dalila

(Dalila)

Donizetti - La Favorite

(Leonor De Guzman)

Werther

(Charlotte)

Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala

(Self)

The Metropolitan Opera: Roberto Devereux

(Sarah)

Mozart - La Clemenza di Tito

A riveder le stelle

(Self - Singer)

Carmen - Opéra National de Paris

(Carmen)

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2010

(Mezzo-soprano)

Samson Et Dalila

(Dalila)

Don Carlo

(La Principessa Eboli)

Summer Night Concert from Vienna – 2023

(Self - Mezzo Soprano)

Symphony of Life

(Self)

Le Concert de Paris 2025

(Mezzo soprano)

Verdi: Messa da Requiem - Barenboim

(Mezzo-soprano)

Vienna Opera Gala With Elina Garança, Sonya Yoncheva, Benjamin Bernheim and Jonas Kaufmann

Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell

(Self)

Romy Award

(Presenter)

Wer weiß denn sowas?

(Self)

DAS!

Zauberhafte Weihnacht im Land der „Stillen Nacht“

(Self)

NDR Talk Show

(Self)

3 nach 9

(Self)

Stöckl

(Self)

Semperopernball

(Self)

Eine große Nachtmusik

(Self)