Elīna Garanča Latvia
Biography
El?na Garan?a (born September 16, 1976) is a Latvian mezzo-soprano. Born into a musical family in Riga, Garan?a entered the Latvian Academy of Music in 1996 to study singing with Sergej Martinov. She continued her studies in Vienna with Irina Gavrilovici and in the United States with Virginia Zeani. Garan?a began her professional career at the Südthüringisches Staatstheater in Meiningen and later worked at the Frankfurt Opera. In 1999 she won the Mirjam Helin Singing Competition in Helsinki, Finland.
