Elina Garanca - Aria Cantilena

Amazon.com Latvian mezzo-soprano Elina Garanča has quickly reached the top rank internationally. Her debut album for Deutsche Grammophon covers an unusually varied repertoire, sung in five languages. Besides the operatic material, Garanča includes a zarzuela aria, a Spanish song, and Villa-Lobos's ever-popular "Aria (Cantilena)" from Bachianas Basileiras no. 5 (hence the album's title). At any speed or dynamic level through a wide range, Garanča negotiates everything effortlessly. Such complete technical command is impressive, especially in such a young singer. It would have been even more exciting, however, to have that technique serve a truly individual vocal timbre and a specific, meaningful delivery of the words. Where are fervent Nicklausse, anguished Charlotte, sexy Isabella, and warm-hearted Cenerentola? These very different personalities come to life only intermittently in their arias. The Villa-Lobos (where Garanča isn't portraying a character and sings frequently on just "Ah") registers most strongly. DG gives Garanča terrific colleagues for the Rosenkavalier trio (sopranos Adrianne Pieczonka and Diana Damrau), magnificent support from the Staatskapelle Dresden under Fabio Luisi, and a CD booklet with eight photos of the glamorous young star. Promising she certainly is, but she still has some distance to travel artistically to deserve this kind of attention. --Roger Pines Review Exceptional debut from a singer surely destined to join the greats. -- Gramophone Magazine We always knew she was good; no one ever thought she was this good. -- Opera News Online About the Artist ELINA GARANCA mezzo-soprano The young mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca has quickly established herself as one of the music world's newest stars through her performances with leading opera theaters and symphony orchestras around the world. She has captured critical and popular acclaim for her beautiful voice, intelligent musicianship, and compelling stage portrayals. Elina Garanca begins the 2006-07 season with a return to the Opera de Paris in performances as Sesto in La clemenza di Tito. She then returns to her home in Vienna for performances as Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte and Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier with the Vienna Staatsoper. She appears again as Mozart's Sesto in her debut performances with the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin before concluding the season with another debut at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in performances as Dorabella. Highlights of Ms. Garanca's performances in concert and recital this season include a European concert tour with the Orchestra of the Concertgebouw Amsterdam under the direction of Mariss Jansons, her recital debut at the Vienna Musikverein, and a solo concert tour of seven cities in Germany with the Munich Symphony Orchestra. Elina Garanca has appeared frequently with the Vienna Staatsoper including recent performances as Charlotte in a new production of Werther opposite Marcelo Alvarez, Dorabella, Octavian, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro under the direction of Riccardo Muti, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Meg Page in a new production of Falstaff. Her first performances as Sesto in La clemenza di Tito were with the Theater an der Wien. She has appeared as Dorabella with the Vienna Festwochen,and this role was also the vehicle for her return to the Salzburg Festival in a new production of Cosi fan tutte led by Philippe Jordan after her successful debut there as Annio in a new production of La clemenza di Tito under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Audiences in Paris saw the mezzo-soprano for the first time when she made her debut in the title role of La cenerentola with the Theatre Champs-Elysees, and she soon returned for performances as Dorabella in a Patrice Chereau production of Cosi fan tutte which she premiered at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. She counts among her other recent successes her first performances as Adalgisa opposite the Norma of Edita Gruberova in concert performances in Baden-Baden and performances as Nicklausse for her debut in Japan with the New National Theater. She has appeared frequently in Finland including performances as Rosina and Giovanna Seymour in Anna Bolena with the Finnish National Opera and Maddalena in Rigoletto with the Savonlinna Festival. In her native Latvia, she has appeared as Rosina with the National Opera and as Giovanna Seymour on tour with the National Opera to Romania and Greece. Elina Garanca is a frequent guest with leading symphony orchestras throughout Europe. She has appeared with the Vienna Philharmonic in performances of Berg's Sieben frühe Lieder, and with the Bayerische Rundfunk in Dvorak's Requiem. She performedde Falla's Der Dreispitz at Vienna's Musikverein led by Bertrand de Billy and recently appeared in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the Orchestre National de France led by Kurt Masur. In 2006, she returned to the Salzburg Festival for concerts of Mozart sacred music conducted by Riccardo Muti. She is a freque
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Author/Artist:Jacques Offenbach|Jules Massenet|Richard Strauss|Gioachino Rossini|Ruperto Chapi y Lorenta|Xavier Montsalvatge|Heitor Villa-Lobos|Fabio Luisi|Dresden Staatskapelle|Elina Garanca
Binding: Audio cd