Karita Mattila

Karita Mattila ( born September 5, 1960 in Somero, Finland) is a Finnish opera singer (soprano )

Life and artistic work

She graduated from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and continued her studies at first continued in Finland Liisa Linko - Malmio and then in London with Vera Rozsa. In 1983 she won the singing competition Cardiff Singer of the World.

Mattila debuted in 1986 at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte by WA Mozart. Since then, she has performed with renowned orchestras and famous conductors such as Claudio Abbado, James Levine and Zubin Mehta. She took on roles at leading opera houses around the world, such as at the Royal Opera House, London, the Vienna State Opera, La Scala in Milan or at the opera in Paris, Hamburg, Salzburg, Chicago as well as at the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Her credits include roles among others, the Elisabeth in Verdi's Don Carlos, Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin and the title role in " Salome " by Richard Strauss.

She won a number of awards, they received a Grammy in 1998. In 2004, a recording of the opera Jenufa in which they participated, honored with a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. Musical America she chose 2005 Musician of the Year.

In 2005 she sang in London Amelia in Un ballo in maschera, in the fall of 2006 she made her debut as Tosca in Helsinki. 2007 and 2008, she had successes including as Jenufa at the Met and in Washington, sang Leonore in London, Manon Lescaut at the Met, as well as the piece of music composed for her Mirage by Kaija Saariaho. In 2009 she sang at the MET Tatjana and Leonore at the Teatre Liceu in Barcelona. In the fall of 2009, she opened with great success the new season 2009/10 the MET New York with a new production of Tosca, one of her best roles, directed by Luc Bondy. The Tosca she sang in 2010 on the side of Jonas Kaufmann at the Munich Opera Festival.

CD recordings

  • Verdi 's "Don Carlos " EMI
  • Janacek 's "Jenufa " Erato
  • Mozart 's "Don Giovanni " Philips
  • Mozart " Così fan tutte " Philips
  • Mozart 's "Requiem" German Grammophon
  • Weber " Der Freischütz" Philips
  • Wagner " Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg " Decca
  • Sibelius ' songs " Ondine
  • Bruckner " Great Mass in F Minor " Philips
  • Bernstein " Symphony no. 3" Elatus
  • Schumann "Scenes from Goethe's Faust " Sony
  • Schoenberg " Gurrelieder " EMI
  • Saariaho "Notes on Light / Orion / Mirage" Ondine
  • " German Romantic Arias " Erato
  • "Opera Arias " Philips
  • " Arias & Scenes" Erato
  • " Karita Live!" Ondine
  • " Karita 's Christmas" Ondine
  • "Wonderful" Ondine
  • "Wild Rose" Ondine
  • "Songs to the Sea " Ondine
  • " From the Heart of Finland " Ondine
  • " Best of Evergreens " Ondine

DVD recordings

  • Verdi 's "Don Carlos " Warner
  • Puccini 's "Manon Lescaut " EMI
  • Wagner " Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg " German Grammophon
  • Beethoven 's "Fidelio " German Grammophon
  • Verdi " Simon Boccanegra " Arthaus
  • Puccini 's "Tosca " Virgin Classics
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