Anita Garanča (10 February 1949 – 23 July 2015) was a

Latvia Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to t ...

lied In the Western classical music tradition, ( , ; , ; ) is a term for setting poetry to classical music. The term is used for any kind of song in contemporary German and Dutch, but among English and French speakers, is often used interchangea ...

er singer and vocal teacher. She is the mother of mezzo-soprano

Elīna Garanča 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 the Mirjam Helin Sing ...

. In 1973 Garanča graduated from the

Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music (), formerly the Riga Conservatory, is a higher music conservatory in Riga, Latvia. The junior institute is the Emīls Dārziņš Music School. History The Latvian Conservatory of Music was founded in ...

, in 1983 with the Vocal Department. Pedagogue Daugavpils Pedagogical Institute. From 1976 to 1982 she was the soloist of the chamber choir Ave Sol, then until 1989, at the Latvian Philharmonic. From 1977 to 2001, she directed the young choir "Zvani". Since 1984 she had been a teacher at the Latvian Academy of Music's Vocal Department, and since 1999 as a professor.Latvijas enciklopēdija. 3. sējums. Rīga: Valērija Belokoņa izdevniecība. 2005. 565. lpp. . In 1995 she received the Spēlmaņu nakts Award.

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1949 births 2015 deaths 20th-century Latvian women opera singers {{Latvia-musician-stub