PREMIERE Wagner: Parsifal
In a sensational new production by the Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov, Parsifal premiered at the Vienna State Opera on Sunday 11 April 2021.
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New Album SCHUMANN & BRAHMS Lieder
Elīna Garanča has been captivating audiences in the world’s most prestigious concert halls for years with well-chosen programmes of art songs by composers ranging from Schubert and Schumann to Richard Strauss, Rachmaninov and her compatriot Raimonds Pauls. Only now, however, has she added to her already extensive Deutsche Grammophon discography an album documenting her exceptional skill in this genre and her ability to convey every nuance of both music and text.
Elīna Garanča won Female Singer of the Year
Elīna Garanča was honoured as Singer of the Year at the 2020 OPUS-KLASSIK for Sol y Vida, an album of non core-classical repertoire in praise of sunshine, life and love.
Opera News
Not yet forty and now in the second decade of her career, the Latvian mezzo has established herself as one of the most gratifying performers on the opera stage today, leaving an indelible stamp on characters ranging from Carmen and Charlotte to Sesto in Clemenza, bel canto heroines such as Angelina, Rosina and Giovanna Seymour to Strauss’s Octavian.
The Observer
Ms. Garanca’s singing from her first phrases defined what is meant by “Met quality,” abundant, sumptuous tone and generous phrasing. This is an artist we need to hear in the great roles of her Fach: Donizetti’s Favorite, for instance, or Eboli in Verdi’s Don Carlos.
The Times
“Garanča easily projects virility and positions the notes, whatever their register, like a darts player hitting the bull’s-eye.”
Opera News
“If [others were] just a hair’s breadth away from perfection, Elīna Garanča hit the mark dead on target.”
The New York Times
“[Garanča] sings with rich sound, an unerring feel for the nuance and subtext of a phrase, and alluring sensuality. The clarity in her singing makes this Carmen seem intelligent and wily.”
The Independent
“Elīna Garanča’s voice is one-in-a-million, allying grace and power to a commanding authority.”
Der Spiegel
“It’s a marvel to see the virtuosic ease with which Elīna Garanča almost casually sails over the hurdles of the material: Never at the limit, and always smiling as she expertly sings, as if it were nothing.”