The Latvian soprano Liene Kinča initially studied with Margarita Gruzdeva and completed her degree in 2006 at the Latvian Academy of Music in the class of Sergejs Martinovs. She made her solo debut as early as 2005 as Karolka in Janáček’s Jenůfa at the Latvian National Opera.

In the following years, she established herself in major roles of the Italian repertoire, including Verdi roles in La Traviata, Aida, Un ballo in maschera, I vespri siciliani, and Il trovatore. Her Puccini repertoire includes title roles such as Tosca, Suor Angelica, and Madama Butterfly, as well as Giorgetta in Il tabarro. She has also performed the Foreign Princess in Rusalka, Lisa in The Queen of Spades, Aksinya in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and Princess Bolkonskaya in Prokofiev’s War and Peace.

As her career progressed, Liene Kinča increasingly turned toward the German repertoire. Her principal roles today include Chrysothemis (Elektra), Sieglinde (Die Walküre), Gutrune, Third Norn, and Woglinde (Götterdämmerung), Senta (Der Flying Dutchman), Ada (Die Feen), Elisabeth (Tannhäuser), and Isolde (Tristan und Isolde).

On the concert stage, she has appeared, among other works, in Shostakovich’s song cycle From Jewish Folk Poetry and in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. She has maintained a close artistic relationship with the Latvian National Opera in Riga, with which she has also appeared on tour in Moscow and Hong Kong. In 2011 and 2013, she was awarded the “Latvijas Gāze Award” as Best Soloist.

She has appeared internationally at houses such as the Flemish Opera Antwerp, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Oper Leipzig, the New National Theatre Tokyo, the Theater an der Wien, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Slovak National Opera Bratislava, and Theater Bern.

Her most recent engagements include the title role in Turandot at the Latvian National Opera as well as at Theater Vanemuine in Tartu. She has also expanded her repertoire to include the role of Abigaille in Nabucco. Other recent highlights include her Isolde in Tristan und Isolde at the New National Theatre Tokyo, Gutrune in a concert performance of Götterdämmerung, and her return to the Grand Théâtre de Genève as Susanna in Khovanshchina.