Elīna Garanča

Elīna Garanča is a Latvian mezzo-soprano, born in Riga in 1976 into a family of musicians. She studied singing at the Latvian Academy of Music and began her career in the opera companies of Meiningen and Frankfurt. She is closely identified with the title role of Bizet’s Carmen, which she has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House and the Vienna State Opera among other houses, and the Vienna State Opera has named her a Kammersängerin. She has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon since 2005.