The challenges of a young singer today: by telling Elīna Garanča's story, this film invites us on a journey into the heart of today's lyrical art. It is this intriguing contrast between the beaming singer on stage with the young, concentrated woman, demanding and fragile in her work. This film will be a testimony, one of a future great singer that allows the general public to discover and understand the rise of a grand diva today...
"There is a moment when you close yourself off completely. You don’t want to let anyone in because you have just given and shown everything possible of yourself and you simply feel empty and sort of lost. It is a special moment… I mean…so I gather all the pieces together that I have just given away…in the second balcony of the first Loge or whatever the case may be… and the single pieces return to you through the cosmos. And then you have to place the pieces together again like a small puzzle. [...] Sometimes it occurs overnight. I wake up in the morning and I realize: “Yes, the cosmos has pieced me together again.” - Elīna Garanča
Claire Alby is the director and author of well perceived documentaries like "Karajan - L'homme qui ne revait jamais" and "Passion Callas".