| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 6-Apr-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Elina Garanča's NYC recital debut is calm, cool and collected |
 Elina Garanča can always be counted on for a coolly polished performance. Her silvery mezzo is beautiful, even throughout her range, and impeccably on pitch. She is musically tasteful, and her sound has grown in recent years. But something often seems to be missing. While she’s too accomplished to call bland, her performances rarely show evidence of a beating heart. On Saturday night, her Carnegie Hall recital debut kept in character, showing an excellent singer rather than an effective communicator.
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| 2-Oct-2012 Barbican Centre: Hall | Elina Garanča thrills in concert at the Barbican |
 As crowd-pulling operatic divas go, most of the attention goes to the sopranos. But a select number of mezzos have the same kind of following, and Latvia's Elina Garanča is high on that list. There are just a few roles where the mezzo is the main character of the opera (many of the others are "witches and bitches", as Garanča puts it), and the big one of those is Carmen.Read full review... | |
| 1-Sep-2012 Großes Festspielhaus | Salzburg's first spiritual festival closes with Verdi's Requiem |
 Faith and glamour have bookended this year’s Salzburg Festival, a move met with incredulity in certain quarters and yet one not entirely alien to Austrian customs, if one looks to the 20 or so most glittering events of the Viennese ball season, which is promptly curtailed by Ash Wednesday (still observed by much of the population here with high Catholic asceticism).Read full review... | |
