Chris’s Cache celebrates Karita Mattila, one of its favorite singers, in a special double-bill featuring the soprano performing Janáček, one of her signature composers.
A Baroque Valentine’s with Opera Lafayette | Feb | DC & NYC
Celebrate love in all its guises with tender ballads, amorous duets, cheeky verses, and bawdy drinking songs plus food, cocktails and wine.
Wagner month at Parterre Box concludes in grand and explosive style: octogenarian Hanna Schwarz and sexagenarian Karita Mattila in crucial moments from Das Rheingold and Lohengrin.
Following Gundula Janowitz and Janet Baker, Chris’s Cache sends birthday greetings to another favorite diva—Karita Matilla—with a quartet of broadcasts.
On this day in 1990 soprano Karita Mattila made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Donna Elvira in a new production of Don Giovanni.
An evening with Finland’s most famous opera star.
Superstar diva on Twitter and everywhere else Karita Mattila has just unveiled her next project!
Trove Thursday presents that perennial holiday favorite Berg’s Wozzeck.
Karita Mattila’s Ortrud, taut conducting, and a remarkable debut emerge from Richard Jones’s dreary Lohengrin Konzept.
“…newfound celebrity on Twitter, where she is beloved by some of opera’s most ardent fans.”
Twitter.
Assembling casts for three works: Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde for Karita Mattila, Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, and Aribert Reimann’s Troades.
Karita Mattila has just rather casually let slip that she has “signed in for [her] first Isolde.”
Twitter legend Karita Mattila, elegantly muumuu’d Thomas Hampson and Les Boys headline Rufus Wainwright‘s grandiose opera Hadrian.
Yet another surprising new project for Karita Mattila: Leticia Van Allen in Myra Breckenridge.
The frequently-omniscient Future Met Wiki has recently vouchsafed a few morsels about upcoming Met seasons.
The centerpiece of Janácek’s Jenufa was the performance of Karita Mattila as the murderous Kostelnicka.
This may be Karita Mattila’s greatest role.
La Cieca nominates Karita Mattila to sing Kundry (imagined here in a Stefan Herheim production of Parsifal, because, after all, one can dream!)
With February 14th falling on a Sunday, there will be no Valentine’s Day Met performance this year.
I was greatly anticipating Karita Mattila’s recital on Friday in Toronto’s Koerner Hall.
Karita Mattila is a gift to this planet.
Karita Mattila (pictured) sings a little Verdi.
Tell us: What was the best of 2025?
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
