A favorite mezzo performance from Ivy Lin
Elina Garanca has moved on from roles like Angelina in La Cenerentola, but this clip from 2001 shows why she became such a big star.
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Ivy Lin
The cool, instantly recognizable timbre, her ability to be so pinpoint precise with all the notes and yet connect everything in a seamless legato, and at 2:15 there’s a perfect trill. Beautiful singer through and through.
Ines also enjoys Elina Garanča:
This just gets me.
Ivy Lin
Ivy Lin teaches science as her day job, and in her spare time reviews dance for Bachtrack. She also obsesses over her 20-year-old cat Pumpkin. Ivy is excited to be back in this wonderful, vibrant opera community after a long hiatus. If she were singing opera, she'd still be cast as Despina until she was in a wheelchair. You can follow Ivy on insta as poisonivy326. Although she's mellowed from her "poisonivy" days she still had a discussion recently with her editor about being "too harsh" in her reviews.
