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. Garanča’s talents would make her a star in any century, yet her voice and movie-star good looks seem tailor-made for our Live in HD era. But perhaps the mezzo’s greatest strength is her ability to render a cantabile line of such overwhelming beauty as to make time stop.… Elīna Garanča has already secured her place in opera history, and she may just be getting started.