Mattila

I can think of few other artists (Karita Mattila, maybe) who are as consistently satisfying in everything they perform.

Sexy Beast 2009

Five songs by her compatriot Sibelius put Mattila on a roll, with a more relaxed, intimate style of delivery and, in the final song, a hint of the stillness she can summon so effectively on the opera stage.

Karita Mattila 2010

At least they will have found it easy to overlook the occasionally foxed tuning in Berg's Seven Early Songs, which found Mattila dipping into an expressively fluid, bottle-green low register that skirted a chesty tone more suited to Weill.

Karita Mattila 2010

From Mattila, it's hilarious, yes – but however questionable its place on the lieder platform, the operatic scene would be duller without it.

Karita Mattila 2010

You know what they say absence does to the heart, and Mattila seemed to be counting on it, craving indulgence for her cold before the start, and offering only one encore, Strauss's Zueignung, its refrain of Habe Dank directed personally at her listeners.

Karita Mattila 2010

Four songs by Brahms offered more comfortable soprano territory; in Von ewiger Liebe, Martin Katz was able to build the piano line as much as he liked, confident that Mattila had the vocal heft to ride it out.

Karita Mattila 2010

Janácek's Jenufa with Karita Mattila in Los Angeles, 10/07 and New York, 2/07.

Archive 2007-12-01 2007

"Karita Mattila, just saw her in 'Salome' at the Met and was blown away, Fritz Wunderlich if he was alive, Measha Brueggergosman, Ian Bostridge, Sasha Cooke, Elza van den Heever."

An Interview with James Gaffigan sfmike 2009

Mattila has made the title role one of her signatures, and it would be a crime for anyone who cares about operatic singing to miss her here.

Archive 2007-09-01 2007

Mattila has made the title role one of her signatures, and it would be a crime for anyone who cares about operatic singing to miss her here.

What you should be seeing 2007