Elīna Garanča

Samson Et Dalila (2024)

Pious restraint comes face to face with sensuous hedonism in Camille Saint-Saëns's grand-opera retelling of the Bible story of Samson and Delilah. Multi-Olivier Award winning director Richard Jones returns to The Royal Opera to stage this spectacular fin- ...

Don Carlo (2023)

Premiere of the 23/24 season at the Teatro La Scala of Milan, broadcast live. The story of Verdi's opera is based on conflicts in the life of Carlos, Prince of Asturias (1545–1568). Though he was betrothed to Elisabeth of Valois, part of the peace treaty ...

Richard Wagner: "Parsifal" Bayreuther Festspiele 2023 (2023)

The Bayreuth Festival 2023 will open with the premiere of Wagner's "Parsifal". Jay Scheib is directing, and Pablo Heras-Casado is the musical director. ...

Summer Night Concert from Vienna – 2023 (2023)

The Vienna Philharmonic's annual Summer Night Concert from the spectacular Schönbrunn Palace Gardens. ...

Georges Bizet: Carmen (2022)

One of the most successful operas in the world will open the 99th Opera Festival in Verona in the summer of 2022: "Carmen" will transform the famous arena into a Seville full of joy and freedom. With "Carmen" George Bizet created an opera that caused scand ...

Carmen aus der Arena von Verona (2022)

"Carmen", one of the most popular operas in the world, in the grandiose setting of the Verona Arena. The special open-air atmosphere of the ancient amphitheater with its gigantic stage, the outstanding cast of singers and the opulent production by Italian ...

Parsifal (2021)

The male circle of the Grail Knights is in crisis. Time and again, knights desert to the counter-realm of the sorcerer Klingsor, who had previously been rejected by the circle of knights. With the help of seductive women, above all Kundry, he succeeds in b ...

Christmas in Vienna – Glanzlichter (2021)

The traditional Christmas concert enchants every year with classic and popular Christmas music from all over the world. The most touching program highlights of the Vienna Christmas Concert. ...

Perpetuum mobile. Raimonds Pauls (2021)

Raimonds Pauls is almost 85 years old, rehearses almost every day and performs at least once a week. What drives him? Not only he is the most popular composer in Latvia: his songs are sung all over the world. "Dāvāja Māriņa" is so popular in Japan that ...

A riveder le stelle (2020)

"Lucia de Lammermoor" should actually have opened this year's season. But Corona prevents the title heroine from stabbing her bridegroom to death in her madness. Instead of an opera premiere, La Scala is presenting a musical journey through the history of ...

Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala (2020)

In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere during the Met's closure, the company presented an unprecedented virtual At-Home Gala, featuring more than 40 leading artists performing in a live stream from t ...

Verdi-Requiem mit Riccardo Muti (2019)

Berliner Philharmoniker: Sir Simon Rattle & Elina Garanca in Baden-Baden (2018)

In this Baden-Baden concert, Simon Rattle presents a sonorous snapshot of the European music scene in the early 20th century. It includes Richard Strauss's self-confidently impressive Don Juan, sumptuous songs by Alban Berg, Ravel's overwhelmingly sensual ...

The Metropolitan Opera: Samson et Dalila (2018)

A towering biblical epic, Saint-Saëns's operatic take on the story of Samson and Delilah has many of the hallmarks of grand opera—show-stopping vocal displays, thrilling choruses, and an engrossing plot set against a sweeping, pseudo-historical backdrop ...

Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's Don Carlos (2017)

Set in 16th-century France and Spain, Don Carlos tells of the political and amorous rivalry between King Philip II and his son, Don Carlos, over Elisabeth de Valois. Krzysztof Warlikowski strips down a tragedy haunted by ghosts, and places the intimate at ...

Carmen - Opéra National de Paris (2017)

The first words uttered by Carmen mark one of the greatest entrances in the history of opera and express all that need be said: "Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame…" With a devilish sway of the hips and a hint of Andalusian flair, the beautif ...

Der Rosenkavalier (2017)

In his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscoring the opera's subtext of class and conflict against a rich backdrop of gilt and red damask ...

Mascagni: Cavallera Rusticana (2016)

A small village in Sicily, Easter Sunday. A despondent Santuzza searches for Turiddu, the man she loves. Before leaving for the army he was in love with Lola. But Santuzza, despite being married to Alfio, has won back Turiddu's heart...Elīna Garanča and ...

The Metropolitan Opera: Roberto Devereux (2016)

Celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Metropolitan Opera's Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD. The broadcast of Donizetti's Roberto Devereux will be presented live on Saturday, April 16 in select cinemas nationwide. In this climact ...

Donizetti - La Favorite (2015)

Donizetti's French masterpiece was in the hands of Italian conductor Antonello Allemandi. This maestro, a bel canto specialist, captured the fire and intensity of the passions from the get-go, making the overture a superbly eloquent transition to a musical ...

Messiah (2013)

This is an exhilarating experience both visually and aurally. How wonderful that Barenboim is havng such success with Verdi this late in his career.The excitement and power is there in all the big movements and the tempi shouldn't upset anyone. There is cl ...

The Metropolitan Opera: La Clemenza di Tito (2012)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's dramatic production brings ancient Rome to life for this gripping tale of revenge, terror, and attempted murder. Giuseppe Filianoti is the Emperor Tito who chooses Servilia to be his Empress. But when she tells him she is already in ...

Salzburg Festival Opening Concert (2011)

This recording features the opening concert of the Salzburg Festival in 2010, in which the Festival celebrated its 90th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of the Great Festival Hall. Daniel Barenboim conducts the Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus State Oper ...

Mozart - La Clemenza di Tito (2011)

Arthaus presents a truly new way of looking at La clemenza di Tito with this famous and star-studded production from the Salzburg Festival 2003. Here Nikolaus Harnoncourt, renowned for his analytical approach to the search for the core of the music, interp ...

Beethoven · Missa Solemnis (Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann) (2011)

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2010 (2010)

The annual New Year's Eve Concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music fan in Berlin and beyond. On New Year's Eve, the Berliner Philharmoniker invite an exceptional soloist for a festive gala. Together, the musicians bid farew ...

Bizet: Carmen (2010)

Richard Eyre's stunning new production of Bizet's opera was the talk of the town when it was unveiled on New Year's Eve 2009. Elīna Garanča leads the cast as the iconic gypsy of the title—a woman desired by every man but determined to remain true to he ...

Rossini: La Cenerentola (2009)

"Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in this delightful Metropolitan Opera production. "As close to pure joy as you will find in a big-time opera house" (New Yorker), conquering audiences and critics ...

Die Operngala der Stars (Baden Baden 2007) (2007)

Deutsche Grammophon proudly presents the new faces of the opera world in a glamorous new live concert DVD: Anna Netrebko, Elına Garanca, Ramón Vargas and the highly acclaimed young French baritone Ludovic Tézier sing a wide range of Italian and French o ...

La Clemenza di Tito (2006)

The 1791 La Clemenza di Tito (or 'The Clemency of Titus') marked Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's final opera seria. With a libretto by Metastasio (edited slightly by Caterino Mazzolà), the work dramatizes the palace intrigues surrounding emperor Titus's attempt ...

Werther (2005)

The production was the Vienna State Opera debut for the young Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan – the Argentinian tenor Marcelo Álvarez, took the title role. His Charlotte on this occasion was the young Latvian mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča. Her performan ...

Così fan tutte (2005)

Live performance from the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, 23 July 2005. ...

Primadonna on Rollerskates (2001)

She is young and beautiful. But a film portrait is more grateful to the life story of a person whose greatest works are already behind them... If the heroine of our film is so young, the most difficult path remains – to try to show how this star of the s ...