Elīna Garanča (born 16 September 1976) is a Latvian mezzo-soprano. She began to study singing in her hometown of Riga in 1996 and continued her studies in Vienna and in the United States. By 1999 she had won first place in a significant competition in Finland and had begun a career in Europe. Worldwide engagements followed her 2003 Salzburg Festival appearances.
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Roberto Abbado
Italian conductor
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Jan Lisiecki
Canadian pianist
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Anne Sofie von Otter
Swedish mezzo-soprano
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Soile Isokoski
Finnish soprano
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Marilyn Horne
American mezzo-soprano opera singer
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Anna Netrebko
Russian-born Austrian operatic soprano
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Cecilia Bartoli
Italian singer
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
German lyric baritone and conductor
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Gidon Kremer
Latvian violinist and conductor
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Sumi Jo
South Korean operatic soprano
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Juan Diego Flórez
peruvian tenor
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Sylvia McNair
American opera singer, soprano
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Nicolai Ghiaurov
opera singer
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Francisco Araiza
opera singer
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Samuel Ramey
Operatic bass
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Emerson String Quartet
string quartet
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Susanne Mentzer
operatic singer (1957-)
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Núria Rial
Operatic soprano
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José Carreras
Spanish opera singer
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Marcelo Álvarez
Argentine tenor
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Kremerata Baltica
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Hildegard Behrens
German operatic soprano
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Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
Italian bass-baritone
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Enea Scala
Italian operatic tenor
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Yuja Wang
Chinese pianist
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Karita Mattila
Finnish operatic soprano
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Malena Ernman
Swedish opera singer
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Christa Ludwig
German mezzo-soprano
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Fabio Luisi
Italian conductor
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Ben Heppner
Canadian opera singer
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Anna Prohaska
Austrian singer and opera singer
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Gundula Janowitz
Austrian opera soprano
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Munich Radio Orchestra
orchestra
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Sandrine Piau
French opera soprano
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Hermann Prey
opera singer
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Sesto Bruscantini
Italian opera singer
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Sol Gabetta
Argentine cellist