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	RECITAL REVIEW: Beyond Words By Stephanie Friedman (Karita Mattila, March 16, 2003)
		Mattila is renowned on the opera stage for her powerful dramatic interpretations, and she is no less impressive on the recital stage.
		Mattila followed the dragonfly's progress as it flew away at the end (“We forgot that you were sun, I only shadow”) with longing eyes, slowly, reluctantly turning her head upstage to watch it flying to its home behind the piano.
		Mattila vamped the audience, playing broadly to the tiers, then announced with a toss of her head that she wanted to do it again “in my own language.” (Her English diction had been perfect.) This time she vamped the pianist, draping herself around him on the piano bench.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/mattila_3_18_03.php (990 words)

	Karita Mattila - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Karita Mattila (born September 5, 1960 in Somero, Finland), is a leading opera soprano.
		Mattila made her Covent Garden debut with the Royal Opera as Fiordiligi in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte in 1986.
		Karita Mattila's first New York Salome was described as a performance such as had not been seen at the Metropolitan opera for decades.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karita_Mattila (294 words)

	Karita Mattila — Virtual Finland
		Claudio Abbado, now retiring as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, considers Mattila a favourite soprano, and she has recorded Strauss songs with him, as well as a soon to be issued version of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
		Mattila also records for Warner's Erato label, which is shortly to issue a collection of opera arias, and songs by Grieg and Sibelius to an orchestral accompaniment.
		She is ready." Mattila began her career as a lyric soprano, but now her voice seems capable of anything.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/mattila.html (657 words)

	Karita Mattila comes to the rescue
		Mattila first sang the opera in a concert performance in Paris, but even after a staged production in Helsinki, she still had her doubts about playing the devoted wife, Leonore, who disguises herself as a young man in order to slip into the prison where her husband, Florestan, is near death.
		Mattila's ability to take us inside Leonore's head, to allow us to feel her constant vigilance and mixture of anxiety and courage compensates mightily for the opera's problematic musical and dramatic spots.
		Mattila credits the rigorous acting training she received at Helsinki's Sibelius Academy for her ability to bring a character to life.
	www.suntimes.com /output/delacoma/sho-sunday-karita13.html (1176 words)

	CULTURE & MUSIC: Karita Mattila - "The world's most sought-after soprano and a Finnish Venus" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Karita Mattila has gone from triumph to triumph, but the peak moments of her career still lie ahead.
		Karita Mattila won the Lappeenranta Singing Competition in 1981 and the BBC competition in Cardiff in 1983.
		Karita is well-known for her colourful and brisk personality and has told the daily Helsingin Sanomat that she would be prepared to strip naked while doing Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils if the director insisted on it.
	www.publiscan.fi /cu36e-2.htm (1509 words)

	About Karita Mattila
		Karita Mattila was a prize winner at the Lappeenranta Solo Voice Competition in Finland in 1981.
		Mattila at her most exuberant, aglow with show-biz pizazz.
		Karita "Mattila and Jorma Silvasti are vocally resplendent as the romantic leads, and Mr.
	www.johnrpierce.com /mattila.html (492 words)

	Amazon.com: Karita Mattila: German Romantic Arias: Music: Carl Maria von Weber,Ludwig van Beethoven,Felix ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Mattila's Leonore is at once steadfastly, nobly ardent and beseeching, vulnerably feminine, and eschewing the mildly expressionistic extremes (to match Jurgen Flimm staging) to which she takes the same aria on the very fine, exciting Met dvd of the complete opera.
		Mattila is perhaps the greatest soprano of her generation (a place she might be disputing with the also amazing Renee Fleming) and she proves it again with this new recording.
		With Mattila you always have the feeling that she is singing as if it were the first and the last time, as if her life depended on it.
	www.amazon.com /Karita-Mattila-German-Romantic-Arias/dp/B00005UW1Y (2941 words)

	classical music - andante - karita mattila works it
		In Mattila's defense, the Italian songs by Schubert works she selected don't show the composer at his most textually inspired, and the Mahler Lieder (one of which has a text of dubious quality by the composer himself) are early, artistically embryonic efforts.
		Because Mattila sang them with a genuine inner conviction that didn't induce her to over-sing, I left the recital wanting her to explore Sibelius' song output comprehensively.
		Karita Mattila (soprano); Staatskapelle Dresden / Colin Davis.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=18138 (756 words)

	karita mattila, metropolitan opera, salome, strauss, valery gergiev, luciano pavarotti, puccini, cavaradossi
		karita mattila, metropolitan opera, salome, strauss, valery gergiev, luciano pavarotti, puccini, cavaradossi
		At 43, Mattila is in terrific shape—a brief glimpse of her body stripped bare at the end of the Dance of the Seven Veils reveals as much.
		Mattila is also a committed performer who digs into her roles with an interpretive intelligence and an expressive ferocity that are scarce in opera today.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/music/classical/reviews/n_10095 (784 words)

	A soprano full of ferocious, tireless energy / Karita Mattila sings in 'Kat'a Kabanova' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		But if Mattila shares a kind of elemental power with her heroine, it seems to be the power of abundant self-confidence rather than emotional torment.
		One of the glories of Mattila's career is her stylistic elusiveness, the impossibility of pinning her down to a particular branch of the operatic repertoire.
		Mattila's primary mortgage is on a London house, but she also returns often to Finland, where she is besieged by loving fans.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/11/02/DD79597.DTL (935 words)

	San Francisco Opera :: Karita Mattila
		KARITA MATTILA is one of today’s most exciting lyric dramatic sopranos.
		Karita Mattila sings regularly with the world’s great conductors including Abbado, Davis, Dohnanyi, Haitink, Levine, Pappano, Rattle, Salonen and Sawallisch, and has many recordings to her name on the Philips, EMI, Sony, DG and Ondine labels.
		In 2001 the New York Times chose Karita Mattila as the best singer of the year for her performance in Fidelio at the Metropolitan Opera, and in the same year she was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award “Outstanding Achievement in Opera” for both Jenufa and Lisa in Pique Dame at the Royal Opera House.
	www.sfopera.com /artistbio.asp?castcrewid=761 (338 words)

	Karita Mattila - The Passion for Art
		innish soprano Karita Mattila came to international attention with her victory at age 23 at the first Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 1983.
		Peter Conrad of the Observer wrote that Mattila is "simply the greatest singing actress in the world." Mattila is fond of saying "I started as a simple country girl".
		Karita Mattila performs twice at the Festival de Lanaudière: July 27 with the Montreal Symphony and July 30 in recital with Martin Katz (broadcast on Radio-Canada on August 2 at 1:30 p.m.).
	www.scena.org /lsm/sm7-10/Karita-en.html (1685 words)

	Karita Mattila's Debut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		arita Mattila, perhaps today's most daring and exciting soprano, has given us many memorable characters, among them a stunning — and at one point, nude — Salome, a striking Fidelio, with her own hair cropped, and a heartbreaking Jenufa.
		Mattila asked Saariaho, a personal friend, to create a new recital work for her; the songs, set to texts by Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf, make full use of Mattila's remarkable range, vocally and expressively.
		Titled "Longing," "Torment," "Perfume of the Instant," and "Echoes," the songs allow Mattila to deploy her impressive arsenal of assured musicianship and physicality (golfing helps her keep in top shape) to create a woman with whom we all can connect.
	www.newyorkphilharmonic.org /centerStage/index.cfm?page=mattila (285 words)

	Ondine
		Karita Mattila is one of today’s most exciting lyric dramatic sopranos and the most successful Finnish soprano on the international scene today.
		Karita Mattila sings regularly with the world’s great conductors including Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, Sir Neville Marriner, Zubin Mehta and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
		An essential component of the artist personality of Karita Mattila is that she is equally at home with performing popular music as with concert music.
	www.ondine.fi /index.php?artist=2 (368 words)

	Amazon.com: Karita Mattila Live in Helsinki: Music: Antonin Dvorak,George Gershwin,Friedrich Hollaender,Leevi ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Any doubts that Finnish singer Karita Mattila--fresh from her triumph in the Met's new production of Fidelio in the 2000-2001 season--has moved from the top ranks of today's sopranos into the rarefied aura of full-fledged diva status are dispelled by this remarkable disc capturing her in full flight at a concert in Helsinki.
		Karita Mattila has more vocal brilliance & stamina and dramatic spunk than just about any other soprano singing today and I first became aware of that when listening to this collection.
		Mattila is generally better suited to opera than lied, but in Finnish music she is excellent - my personal favorite is "Flickan kom ifrån sing älsklings möte" by Sibelius.
	www.amazon.com /Karita-Mattila-Helsinki-Antonin-Dvorak/dp/B000053SLK (1683 words)

	arborweb reviews - review: Karita Mattila
		Karita Mattila, the forty-three-year-old Finnish soprano, just sang the title role in Salome at the Met.
		Mattila has the strength, the sensitivity, and the musicality to sing anything she wants and sing it spectacularly.
		Given Mattila's recent performance, one might guess that she'll be in the mood for Duparc and Rachmaninoff.
	www.arborweb.com /reviews/0404.karitamattila-review.html (359 words)

	Karita Mattila :: Reviews & Articles from The Opera Critic
		Due to illness, soprano Karita Mattila has cancelled her appearances as Leonore in the Boston Symphony's concert performances of Beethoven's Fidelio.
		Karita Mattila sings the eponymous prima donna in Puccini's Tosca for the first time onstage at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki.
		Karita Mattila: a singer with a gorgeous voice and great artistry.
	theoperacritic.com /singers.php?singer=karita_mattila&mode=2 (468 words)

	Arts \| Karita Mattila
		Finnish goddess Karita Mattila is partway through a European recital tour, the centrepiece of which is Quatre Instants, a new song cycle by her aloof compatriot, Kaija Saariaho.
		Mattila has, it would seem, inspired Saariaho to compose against type, for in place of her usual refined, lunar beauty, she has come up with a quasi-operatic monologue that plunges into the erotic, extreme territory that Mattila conveys so well.
		In the encores Mattila winds a fl gypsy scarf round her golden locks and transforms herself into Marlene Dietrich, singing the title song from the film Golden Earrings.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4643243-108884,00.html (366 words)

	iClassics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In her new recording for Warner Classics, the remarkable Finnish soprano Karita Mattila performs 14 songs by two of Scandinavia’s most well-known composers, Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius.
		Singing all of these songs in their original languages, Mattila is accompanied by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, lead by their Musical Director and one of Finland’s most respected conductors, Sakari Oramo.
		Mattila rose to international fame by winning the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 1983, and since has been performing triumphantly throughout the world.
	iclassics.com /featureArticle?contentId=1187 (786 words)

	Karita Mattila Discography
		(Mattila's performance in the final of the song contest in Lappeenranta)
		Metropolitan Opera Gala: James Levine's 25th Anniversary With The Met:
		For further information on the recordings and Karita Mattila, please contact
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/ivory/40 (87 words)

	OPERA REVIEW: Karita Mattila, at an Opera's Center By Olivia Stapp (San Francisco Opera, Richard Decker, Karita ...
		The Finnish soprano Karita Mattila performed her first Kat'a Kabanova at the San Francisco Opera today in brilliant style, combining superb vocalism and profound character portrayal.
		Indeed her artistic thrust is so powerful that after a few minutes of her presence onstage, we become acutely sensitized to her every delicate gesture and nuance.
		Mattila's emotional tone palette is rich with color, her vocal tone luxuriant, the baring of her soul daringly intimate.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/katyakabanova_11_5_02.php (820 words)

	Karita Mattila @ Barbican Hall, London : concert review
		The Finnish soprano Karita Mattila has been a favourite in this country ever since she was crowned the first Cardiff Singer of the World back in the 1980s.
		Mattila ended by explaining that it was such a warm evening that she needed to talk her shoes off, and she sang both encores like this.
		Karita Mattila in Un ballo in maschera @ ROH (2005)
	www.musicomh.com /classical/mattila_0606.htm (888 words)

	Karita Mattila - Barbican - review by Peter Wilson \| MODERN GENT
		Mattila made frequent references to her age - mid-40s, but the gentleman in me refuses to be more specific - but that voice has got better, almost smokier; I bet she could even do justice to some of Sinatra's best torch songs.
		The second half of the show, in which she had cast off the rather unattractive white outfit from the opening half for a very sexy cyan number, was a Spanish programme, a first for her and an indication of her versatility.
		At the end Mattila was so happy with the performance that she almost smothered Katz, who must have been at least 18 inches shorter than her.
	www.moderngent.com /site/karita_mattila.php (391 words)

	Classical Voice - Karita Mattila interview, December 2003
		Mattila´s luminous tone first sparkled during a sensual rendition of Duparc’s “L’invitation au voyage”.
		It was as if her whole body and blood moved in accordance with the tiniest of phrases or the most subtle of chords.
		Karita Mattila: Last time I came to Lisbon, I was unlucky because I had a very bad cold and it was gradually getting worse.
	www.classicalvoice.org /articles/nu_mattila122003cv.htm (3959 words)

	Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Karita Mattila's Salome
		Karita Mattila’s performance in the Met’s new production of “Salome” is unlikely to inspire a commemorative number from the next Irving Berlin, but by rights it should.
		Mattila sang all the notes, which is diabolically difficult to do.
		Mattila, exulting in a transvestite striptease routine that echoed Marlene Dietrich’s “Blue Angel” and Madonna’s “Material Girl” video, made it more about Herod’s mixed-up fantasies than about her own: the tetrarch has more than a little Wilde in him, and he gets off on the ambiguities.
	www.therestisnoise.com /2004/04/salome_1.html (1593 words)

	Press Release: Karita Mattila, soprano, Fri, April 13, 2007, 8pm, NEC's Jordan Hall, Boston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Karita Mattila is one of today’s leading dramatic sopranos.
		Karita Mattila sings regularly with leading orchestral conductors including Claudio Abbado, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Bernard Haitink, James Levine, Simon Rattle, and Wolfgang Sawallisch.
		In 2001, The New York Times chose Karita Mattila as the best singer of the year for her performance in Fidelio at the Metropolitan Opera, and in the same year she was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award “Outstanding Achievement in Opera” for both Jenufa and Pique Dame at the Royal Opera House.
	www.celebrityseries.org /06_PRESS/Mattila_Rel.htm (556 words)

	Opera Today : Karita Mattila — A Stunning Leonore
		Much of that noble sentiment was recognizable in the radiant Finnish soprano Karita Mattila’s thrilling portrayal of Leonore, the opera’s courageous, larger-than-life heroine, at the Lyric’s first performance of the season Tuesday night at the Civic Opera House.
		Originally staged for the Metropolitan Opera by Jurgen Flimm in 2000 and staged for Lyric by Met assistant director Gina Lapinski, this is a world in which important politicians wear well-cut three-piece suits and prison guards sport short-sleeved khaki shirts and brandish billy clubs.
		Mattila’s voice is big and agile, with a bright center and velvety edge, capable of plumbing every facet of Leonore’s treacherous emotional journey.
	www.operatoday.com /content/2005/01/karita_mattila.php (1225 words)

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