Following Gundula Janowitz and Janet Baker, Chris’s Cache sends birthday greetings to another favorite diva—Karita Matilla—with a quartet of broadcasts.
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Juraj Valcuha conducts Charles Workman, Robert Watson, Karita Mattila, and Cornelia Beskow in a live broadcast from Rome
A broadcast from last month of the much-discussed London production featuring Ausrine Stundyte, Sara Jakubiak, Karita Mattina, Charles Workman, and Lukasz Golinski conducted by Antonio Pappano
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.”
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.
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 (pictured) sings a little Verdi.
New Yorkers hungry for an appearance by Karita Mattila (absent from the Met this season) will want to take a look at the Bayerische Staatsoper’s live webcast of Jenufa on Saturday afternoon.
La Cieca has been sniffing around her generally reliable (and fragrant) sources, and she thinks she has pieced together a list of the dozen operas to be featured in the 2013-2014 season of “The Met: Live in HD.”
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