Since its founding in 2003, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra has become a global benchmark for Mahler interpretation. The opening concert of the 2025 Lucerne Festival will once again highlight this legacy, uniting some of today’s most distinguished artists. Under the baton of Music Director Riccardo Chailly, the orchestra will present Mahler’s unfinished Symphony No. 10 […]
Elīna Garanča returned to the Bayreuth Festival in 2025 to perform the role of Kundry in Richard Wagner’s Parsifal on August 24 and 26. After her acclaimed debut in 2023, the Latvian mezzo-soprano once more embodied one of Wagner’s most complex and demanding characters. The Festival revived Jay Scheib’s production of Parsifal, conducted by Pablo […]
On June 14, 2024, mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča captivated audiences at Carnegie Hall in a powerful performance of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle. Joining forces with The Met Orchestra under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Garanča portrayed Judith alongside bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Bluebeard in a concert version of the haunting one-act opera. Critics praised Garanča’s deeply […]
Elīna Garanča takes on the role of Kundry at the opening of this year’s Festival.
Elīna Garanča stars in her long-awaited debut as Amneris among the superstar cast at the Wiener Staatsoper.
“It is important to me, and I want to teach my children that we cannot go on without nature. Humans are only a part of this world, we must live in harmony with nature and realize that we cannot only take.”
Deutsche Grammophon documents two such remarkable events, featuring mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča’s appearances at the Salzburg Festival in the summers of 2020 and 2021 with the Wiener Philharmoniker and Christian Thielemann.
In a sensational new production by the Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov, Parsifal premiered at the Vienna State Opera on Sunday 11 April 2021.
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 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.