On this day in 1990 soprano Karita Mattila made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Donna Elvira in a new production of Don Giovanni.
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An evening with Finland’s most famous opera star.
By La Cieca
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.
By Ben Miller
“…newfound celebrity on Twitter, where she is beloved by some of opera’s most ardent fans.”
By La Cieca
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.”
By La Cieca
Twitter legend Karita Mattila, elegantly muumuu’d Thomas Hampson and Les Boys headline Rufus Wainwright‘s grandiose opera Hadrian.
By La Cieca
Yet another surprising new project for Karita Mattila: Leticia Van Allen in Myra Breckenridge.
By La Cieca
The frequently-omniscient Future Met Wiki has recently vouchsafed a few morsels about upcoming Met seasons.
By La Cieca
The centerpiece of Janácek’s Jenufa was the performance of Karita Mattila as the murderous Kostelnicka.
This may be Karita Mattila’s greatest role.
By Greg Freed
La Cieca nominates Karita Mattila to sing Kundry (imagined here in a Stefan Herheim production of Parsifal, because, after all, one can dream!)
By La Cieca
With February 14th falling on a Sunday, there will be no Valentine’s Day Met performance this year.
By Porgy Amor
I was greatly anticipating Karita Mattila’s recital on Friday in Toronto’s Koerner Hall.
By Ali Kashani
Karita Mattila is a gift to this planet.
By Adam Moscoe
Karita Mattila (pictured) sings a little Verdi.
By La Cieca
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.
By La Cieca
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.”
By La Cieca
La Cieca has managed to nab a few moments of video of tonight’s performance of Vec Makropulos from San Francisco, proving that Karita Mattila is indeed today’s ideal interpreter of the role of Emilia Marty. [Video]
By La Cieca
Okay, so here’s that Luc Bondy production of Tosca again, this time as seen at the Bayerische Staatsoper earlier this summer, with the “original cast” of Karita Mattila and the singer who did all the rehearsals in New York until the last week, Juha Uusitalo. They rehearsed again for the co-production in Munich for festival performances and…
By La Cieca
Patricia Racette will sing the title role in Puccini’s Tosca on April 14, 17, 20, and 24 matinee, replacing Karita Mattila, “who is ill” — this just in from the Met’s press office.
By La Cieca
