Inessa Galante (b. Riga

Riga

Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...

) is a Latvian

Latvians

Latvians or Letts are the indigenous Baltic people of Latvia.-History:Latvians occasionally refer to themselves by the ancient name of Latvji, which may have originated from the word Latve which is a name of the river that presumably flowed through what is now eastern Latvia...

 soprano

Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

 opera singer. Galante is known for a great beauty of tone, nuanced pianissimos and sensitive command of dynamics and colour. Her performance of Ave Maria by Caccini

Ave Maria (Giulio Caccini)

"Ave Maria" is a popular and much recorded aria composed by Baroque composer Giulio Caccini. It is a musical hoax generally misattributed to Vladimir Vavilov. Vavilov himself published and recorded it on the Melodiya label with the ascription to "Anonymous" in 1970...

, an aria by Vladimir Vavilov, from her "Debut" album 1995 started spreading worldwide interest in the piece.

Career

Galante was born in Riga to a musical family. She entered the Latvian Academy of Music

Latvian Academy of Music

The Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music , formerly Riga Conservatory, is the major higher learning music institution in Latvia. The junior institute is the Emils Darzins Music School.-History:...

 in Riga in 1977. While still a student at the Academy she became a soloist of the Latvian National Opera

Latvian National Opera

The Latvian National Opera , Riga, is the national opera of Latvia. The opera company includes the Latvian National Ballet , LNO Chorus, and LNO Orchestra.-History:...

. Parallel to her work in Riga she was engaged in opera productions of other theatres, particularly at the Kirov Opera (Mariinsky theatre) in St. Petersburg, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 where she had a fruitful collaboration with conductor Valery Gergiev.

From 1991 until 1999 Galante was soloist at National Theatre Mannheim and Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

The Deutsche Oper am Rhein is an opera company based in Düsseldorf and Duisburg. The opera also has an associated classical ballet company....

 in Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf

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. Since then she has been touring and performing all over the world. The voice of Galante was heard at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées is a theatre at 15 avenue Montaigne. Despite its name, the theatre is not on the Champs-Élysées but nearby in another part of the 8th arrondissement of Paris....

, at Festival de Radio France et Montpellier

Festival de Radio France et Montpellier

The Festival de Radio France et Montpellier is a summer festival of opera and music held in Montpellier, France created in 1985. The music festival concentrates on classical music and jazz with about 100 events, including opera, concerts, films, and talks, most of which are free and located in the...

 and St. Denis Festival (USA), Barbican Hall, Gibson Hall

Gibson Hall

Gibson Hall is a building at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It sits across from Audubon Park.-History:Constructed in 1894, Gibson Hall is the oldest structure on the present Tulane University campus. It faces on to St. Charles Avenue and is the entry landmark to the...

, Royal Albert Hall

Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall situated on the northern edge of the South Kensington area, in the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....

, Wigmore Hall

Wigmore Hall

Wigmore Hall is a leading international recital venue that specialises in hosting performances of chamber music and is best known for classical recitals of piano, song and instrumental music. It is located at 36 Wigmore Street, London, UK and was built to provide London with a venue that was both...

 and Kensington Palace

Kensington Palace

Kensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It has been a residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century and is the official London residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke and...

, Newport Music Festival

Newport Music Festival

Newport Music Festival is a classical music festival that takes place in Newport, Rhode Island.It was founded in 1969 as a summer season of the Metropolitan Opera. The outdoor venue was not conducive to classical music performance, and instead the grand rooms of the stately Newport mansions were...

 (USA), Royal Swedish Opera

Royal Swedish Opera

Kungliga Operan is Sweden's national stage for opera and ballet.-Location and Environment:...

, Kremlin

Kremlin

A kremlin , same root as in kremen is a major fortified central complex found in historic Russian cities. This word is often used to refer to the best-known one, the Moscow Kremlin, or metonymically to the government that is based there...

, Bolshoi Theatre

Bolshoi Theatre

The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds performances of ballet and opera. The Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera are amongst the oldest and most renowned ballet and opera companies in the world...

 in Moscow (where she had her debut as Adriana in F.Cilea's opera „Adriana Lecouvreur“ in the production of La Scala theatre). In 2001 Galante appeared in concert in Rotterdam

Rotterdam

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 together with José Carreras

José Carreras

Josep Maria Carreras i Coll , better known as José Carreras , is a Spanish Catalan tenor particularly known for his performances in the operas of Verdi and Puccini...

.

Galante has worked with such conductors as Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE was a Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985...

, Valery Gergiev

Valery Gergiev

Valery Abisalovich Gergiev is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, and artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg.- Early life :Gergiev,...

, Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of western classical music. He is the Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.-Biography:...

, Evelino Pidò, Myung-whun Chung

Myung-Whun Chung

Myung-whun Chung is a South Korean pianist and conductor.His sisters, violinist Kyung-wha Chung, and cellist Myung-wha Chung, and he at one time performed together as the Chung Trio. He was a joined second-prize winner in the 1974 International Tchaikovsky Competition. Chung studied conducting at...

, Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez

Miguel Angel Gómez Martínez

Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez is a Spanish conductor.-External links:**...

, Neeme Järvi

Neeme Järvi

Neeme Järvi is an Estonian-born conductor.-Early life:Järvi studied music first in Tallinn, and later in Leningrad at the Leningrad Conservatory under Yevgeny Mravinsky, and Nikolai Rabinovich, among others...

, Carl Davis

Carl Davis

Carl Davis CBE is an American born conductor and composer who has made his home in the UK since 1961. In 1970 he married the English actress Jean Boht....

, John Mauceri

John Mauceri

John Francis Mauceri is an American conductor, producer and arranger for theatre, opera and television. For fifteen years, he served on the faculty of Yale University. He was a protege of Leonard Bernstein...

, Stefan Soltesz, Eric Klaas, Antonio Pappano

Antonio Pappano

Antonio Pappano is a British conductor and pianist of Italian parentage.Pappano's family relocated to England from Castelfranco in Miscano near Benevento, Italy in 1958 and at the time of his birth his parents worked in the restaurant business, but Pasquale Pappano, his father, was by vocation a...

, Steven Mercurio

Steven Mercurio

Steven Mercurio is an Italian American conductor and composer.-Early life:Steven Mercurio was born in Bardonia, New York, in 1956. His father was an accountant, and his mother owned a delicatessen. He studied at Graham Junior College and Boston University before entering the Juilliard School of...

, Alexander Vedernikov

Alexander Vedernikov

Alexander Alexandrovich Vedernikov is a Russian conductor. He is son of the bass Alexander Filipovich Vedernikov ....

, Dmitri Kitayenko, Vassily Sinaisky

Vassily Sinaisky

Vassily Serafimovich Sinaisky is a Russian conductor and pianist. He studied conducting with Ilya Musin at the Leningrad Conservatory and began his career as Assistant to Kirill Kondrashin at the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra...

, Alexander Rahbari, Lawrence Renes

Lawrence Renes

Lawrence Renes is a Dutch conductor. Renes studied violin at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and conducting at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, from which he graduated cum laude in 1993....

 and Vladimir Fedoseyev

Vladimir Fedoseyev

Vladimir Ivanovich Fedoseyev is a Russian conductor.Fedoseyev graduated from the Gnessin State Musical College 1957, and Moscow Conservatory 1972. From 1974 artistic director and chief conductor of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio 1974-1999. He has also served as principal...

.

Operatic Roles

The first major operatic role of Galante was Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata

La traviata

La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La dame aux Camélias , a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The title La traviata means literally The Fallen Woman, or perhaps more figuratively, The Woman...

 at her graduation exam at the Music Academy. Since that time Galante has performed this role more than 100 times on various stages of the world. Among Galante's roles are:

• Olympia (in Offenbach
  Jacques Offenbach
  Jacques Offenbach was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr....
  
  's Tales of Hoffmann),
• Snegurochka (in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden
  The Snow Maiden
  The Snow Maiden: A Spring Fairy Tale is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed during 1880–1881. The Russian libretto, by the composer, is based on the like-named play by Alexander Ostrovsky .The first performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera took place at the...
  
  ),
• Gilda (in Verdi's Rigoletto
  Rigoletto
  Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. It was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on March 11, 1851...
  
  ),
• Leonora (in Verdi's Il Trovatore
  Il trovatore
  Il trovatore is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El Trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez. Cammarano died in mid-1852 before completing the libretto...
  
  ),
• Aida (in Verdi's Aida
  Aida
  Aida sometimes spelled Aïda, is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette...
  
  ),
• Adina (in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore
  L'elisir d'amore
  L'elisir d'amore is an opera by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. It is a melodramma giocoso in two acts...
  
  )
• Lucia (in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
  Lucia di Lammermoor
  Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor....
  
  ),
• Rosina (in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia),
• Corina (in Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims
  Il viaggio a Reims
  Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L'albergo del giglio d'oro is an operatic dramma giocoso, originally performed in three acts, by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Balocchi, based in part on Corinne, ou L'Italie by Mme de Staël.Rossini's last opera in the Italian language Il viaggio a...
  
  ),
• Marguerite (in Gounod's Faust
  Faust (opera)
  Faust is a drame lyrique in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part 1...
  
  ),
• Magda (in Puccini's La Rondine
  La rondine
  La rondine is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert...
  
  ),
• Cio-Cio-San (in Puccini's Madama Butterfly
  Madama Butterfly
  Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Puccini based his opera in part on the short story "Madame Butterfly" by John Luther Long, which was dramatized by David Belasco...
  
  ),
• Mimi (in Puccini's La Boheme
  La bohème
  La bohème is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions quadro, a tableau or "image", rather than atto . by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger...
  
  ),
• Liu (in Puccini's Turandot
  Turandot
  Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni.Though Puccini's first interest in the subject was based on his reading of Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of the play, his work is most nearly based on the earlier text Turandot...
  
  ),
• Lauretta (in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi
  Gianni Schicchi
  Gianni Schicchi is a comic opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, composed in 1917–18. The libretto is based on an incident mentioned in Dante's Divine Comedy. The work is the third and final part of Puccini's Il trittico —three one-act operas with...
  
  ),
• Micaela (in Bizet's Carmen
  Carmen
  Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin...
  
  ),
• Adriana (in Cilèa's Adriana Lecouvreur
  Adriana Lecouvreur
  Adriana Lecouvreur is an opera in four acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the play by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé...
  
  )
• Vivetta (in Cilèa's L'arlesiana
  L'arlesiana
  L'arlesiana is an opera in three acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Leopoldo Marenco. It was originally written in four acts, and was first performed on 27 November 1897 at the Teatro Lirico di Milano in Milan...
  
  ),
• Pamina (in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte),
• Elvira (in Mozart's Don Giovanni
  Don Giovanni
  Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga on October 29, 1787...
  
  ),
• Nedda (in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci
  Pagliacci
  Pagliacci , sometimes incorrectly rendered with a definite article as I Pagliacci, is an opera consisting of a prologue and two acts written and composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo. It recounts the tragedy of a jealous husband in a commedia dell'arte troupe...
  
  ),
• Beauty (in Oliver's The Beauty and Beast),
• Naiad (in Richard Strauss
  Richard Strauss
  Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...
  
  ' Ariadne auf Naxos
  Ariadne auf Naxos
  Ariadne auf Naxos is an opera by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Bringing together slapstick comedy and consuming beautiful music, the opera's theme is the competition between high and low art for the public's attention.- First version :The opera was originally...
  
  ),
• 3rd Norn (in Wagner's Götterdämmerung
  Götterdämmerung
  is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four operas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen...
  
  ),
• Ortlinde (in Wagner's Die Walküre
  Die Walküre
  Die Walküre , WWV 86B, is the second of the four operas that form the cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen , by Richard Wagner...
  
  ),
• Euridice (in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice
  Orfeo ed Euridice
  Orfeo ed Euridice is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck based on the myth of Orpheus, set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi. It belongs to the genre of the azione teatrale, meaning an opera on a mythological subject with choruses and dancing...
  
  ),
• Giuditta (in Lehár's Giuditta
  Giuditta
  Giuditta is an operatic musikalische Komödie in five scenes, with music by Franz Lehár and a German libretto, by Paul Knepler and Fritz Löhner. Scored for a large orchestra, it was Lehár's last and most ambitious work, written on a larger scale than his previous operettas...
  
  ),
• Iolanta (in Tchaikovsky's Iolanta
  Iolanta
  Iolanta, Op. 69, is a lyric opera in one act by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The libretto was written by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, and is based on the Danish play Kong Renés Datter by Henrik Hertz. The play was translated by Fyodor Miller and adapted by Vladimir Zotov...
  
  ),
• Lisa (in Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades
  Queen of Spades
  The Queen of spades is one of 52 playing cards.Queen of spades may also refer to:* alternative name of the card game Old Maid, in which that particular playing card plays an important role...
  
  ),
• Manon Lescaut (in Puccini's "Manon Lescaut")

In addition to performing in operas Galante frequently sings in concerts in Verdi's Requiem, Mozart's Requiem, in the works of Bruckner, Poulenc, Schubert, Brahms and other composers. In 2008 Galante performed Richard Strauss's The Four Last Songs for soprano and orchestra which was at the same time premiere of this work in Russia.

Galante is patroness of the international music festival Summertime. She has been awarded The Order of the Three Stars by the President of Latvian Republic.

Discography

Galante's album "Debut" was awarded Gold (1999) and Platinum (2001) disc in Holland after its sales exceeded 200,000; the disc Arietta was recognized by BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 to be the best in the nomination of classical music (2000). The disc of opera arias by Tchaikovsky (BMG, the Royal Opera orchestra, conductor Neeme Järvi) was considered to be exceptionally brilliant, marking out the scene of Tatyana's letter as the best interpretation of recent 20 years. The disc Arias from Verdi's late operas got the Gramophone editor choice (October, 2003). Classic CD described her Cavatina of Norma as "...a Norma to rival that of Callas...". She is described as one of the most notable followers of the legendary singer. Her concerts are recorded by Classic FM and BBC.

LP

• Mendelssohn, Three motets for female voice and organ. Woman's Folk Сhorus "Amber" (Sieviešu tautas koris "Dzintars") Conductor Imants Cepītis, Aivars Kalējs
  Aivars Kalējs
  Aivars Kalējs is a Latvian organist and organ composer.He is organist at the Dome Cathedral in Riga and chief organist for the New St. Gertrudes Lutheran Church. He tours internationally and has participated in dozens of international organ festivals in the US, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Denmark,...
  
   Riga Cathedral organ, solistes Inessa Galante, Antra Bigača, Olga Žarikova, Ingūna Lazdiņa. Melodiya
  Melodiya
  Melodiya is a Russian record label. It was the state-owned major record company/label of the Soviet Union.-History:It was established in 1964 as the "All-Union Gramophone Record Firm of the USSR Ministry of Culture Melodiya"...
  
   1987
• Jewish folk songs - Inessa Galante & Jānis Sproģis & The Latvian SSR Chorus (Recorded live at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory
  Moscow Conservatory
  The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...
  
   June 9 1987) Melodiya 1989
• Spiritual music ("Gariga muzika") music of Jāzeps Vītols
  Jazeps Vitols
  -Biography:Vītols, the son of a schoolteacher, began his studies in composition in 1880 at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. After graduating in 1886, he remained at the Conservatory to teach composition and reached the rank of Professor in 1901. His pupils there...
  
  . Melodiya, Latvia 1991
• Сhorus "Versija" - Ziemas svētkos / "Šai svētā naktī". Ritonis, Latvia, 1991

CD

• "Songs of Amber" - Songs of Women's Folk Chorus Dzintars (solo Inessa Galante) - 1990
• "Inese Galante. Soprano" - Latvian National Symphony Orchestra Conductor Aleksandrs Vilumanis
  Aleksandrs Viļumanis
  Aleksandrs Viļumanis is a Latvian conductor.Vilumanis studied percussion and conducting at the Latvian Academy of Music, being hired 1962 as a percussionist and conductor's assistant at the Latvian National Opera...
  
   1995 (Gold and Platinum CD). Released as "Debut" on Campion.
• "Heroines" – Gounod, Cilea, Puccini - Campion Records 1995
• "Velreiz" ("again, encore") - Albinoni arias 1996
• Maks Goldins Eighteen Jewish Folk Songs & Rachmaninov - Romantic Songs - Campion 1996
• "Encore" - Johann Strauss, Weber (compilation) 1997
• "Musica Sacra" – From Riga Cathedral. Paula Licite Ave Maria etc. cond. Juris Klavins (compilation of live recordings 1989-1996) - Campion 1997
• "The Tchaikovsky Experience" – Sergei Leiferkus
  Sergei Leiferkus
  Sergei Leiferkus is an operatic baritone from Russia, known for his dramatic technique and powerful voice particularly in Russian and Italian language repertoire. He is most notable for his roles as Scarpia in Tosca, Iago in Otello, Grand-prétre de Dagon in Samson et Dalila and Simon Boccanegra...
  
  , Marina Shaguch, Alexander Fedin. Covent Garden Orchestra conducted by Neeme Järvi
  Neeme Järvi
  Neeme Järvi is an Estonian-born conductor.-Early life:Järvi studied music first in Tallinn, and later in Leningrad at the Leningrad Conservatory under Yevgeny Mravinsky, and Nikolai Rabinovich, among others...
  
  , BMG 1997
• "Latvian Sacral Music" - solisti Inessa Galante, Dita Kalniņa (soprano), Ingus Pētersons (tenor), Aivars Kalējs (organ), Dita Krenberga (flute), cond. Kaspars Putniņš - 1997
• "La Traviata" – Verdi. (2 CD's Live recorded. Latvian National Opera. 1989) - 1998
• "Arietta" – Baroque Arias, London Musici. Conducted by M. Stephenson (Best recording of the year 2000 –as reviewed by BBC, FM classics.) - 1999
• "Russian Recital" – at the Wigmore Hall
  Wigmore Hall
  Wigmore Hall is a leading international recital venue that specialises in hosting performances of chamber music and is best known for classical recitals of piano, song and instrumental music. It is located at 36 Wigmore Street, London, UK and was built to provide London with a venue that was both...
  
  . Roger Vignoles
  Roger Vignoles
  Roger Vignoles is a British pianist and accompanist. He regularly performs with the world’s leading singers – including Kiri Te Kanawa, Thomas Allen, Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Hampson, Gitta-Maria Sjøberg, Sarah Walker, Susan Graham, Felicity Lott, Stephan Genz, Monica Groop, Wolfgang Holzmair,...
  
   (piano). (BBC live recording 1999) - 2000
• "ABC (Adagio in C minor)" – Albinoni. Conducted by Alexander Vilumanis, „Soprano arias“ – Bach J.S., „Amarilli mia bella“ – Caccini. Conducted by Mark Stephenson (conductor)  - 2001
• "The Galante Choice" - 2001
• "Galante forever ..." - 2001
• "Mass in C major ,Exultate, jubilate Ergo interest" – Mozart. Czechoslovakian Chamber Philharmonic. Conducted by D. Bostock - 2001
• "Verdi Galante. Arias from Verdi’s late works" – Latvian National Symphony Orchestra. Conducted by Terje Mikkelsen Campion - 2003
• "Confesso" - Inessa Galante & Henk van Twillert (baritone saxophone) - 2006
• "Requiem" - Mozart. conducted by Andres Mustonen - 2007
• "Stabat Mater" - Pergolesi. Stradella - Pieta Signore. Vivaldi Stabat mater. Inessa Galante, Sergejs Jēgers (alto) chamber ensemble conducted by Andris Veismanis - 2008
• “Ave Maria” Inessa Galante. Organ: Aivars Kalejs in Riga Cathedral - Release December 17. 2008
• "LA GALANTE THE SOUL OF RIGA" (2 CD's) Inessa Galante. Organ: Aivars Kalejs and Mattias Wager. Release 14-07-2011 Dom Riga

Not published live records

• "Iolanta" - Tchaikovsky. Live records. Paris Theatre Chatelet. 15.3.1996
• "L Arlesiana" - Cilea. Live records. Montpellier, Festival de Radio France 07.1996
• "Gianni Schicchi" - Puccini. Live records. Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht. 25.04.1996
• "Madame Butterfly" - Puccini. - Live records. Latvian National Opera. 1999, 2000
• "Manon Lescaut" - Puccini. Live records. Royal Operahouse in Stockholm, Sweden. 13.02.2006, 07.02.2009

Sources

Silvija Lice: "Inessa Galante", by Publishing House "Liktenstasti", Riga, 1999,ISBN 9984-611-29-9

External links

MY DREAM HAS COME TRUE - I met INESSA GALANTE in Amsterdam December 18. 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00kkbohfH7A

http://www.youtube.com/user/InessaGalanteFan

• Her Web site

• Listen to the Giulio Caccini's Ave Maria sung by Inessa Galante