Stormy weather
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.
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What becomes the legends most?
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.
Stage animal control
Following Gundula Janowitz and Janet Baker, Chris’s Cache sends birthday greetings to another favorite diva—Karita Matilla—with a quartet of broadcasts.
Jenufa
Juraj Valcuha conducts Charles Workman, Robert Watson, Karita Mattila, and Cornelia Beskow in a live broadcast from Rome
Elektra
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
The Finnish line
On this day in 1990 soprano Karita Mattila made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Donna Elvira in a new production of Don Giovanni.
The two faces of Karita
An evening with Finland’s most famous opera star.
Color Me Karita
Superstar diva on Twitter and everywhere else Karita Mattila has just unveiled her next project!
Wir arme Leut!
Trove Thursday presents that perennial holiday favorite Berg’s Wozzeck.
Bleak house
Karita Mattila’s Ortrud, taut conducting, and a remarkable debut emerge from Richard Jones’s dreary Lohengrin Konzept.
Ah tweet mystery of life
“…newfound celebrity on Twitter, where she is beloved by some of opera’s most ardent fans.”
Are you ready for some Fantasy Football?
Assembling casts for three works: Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde for Karita Mattila, Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, and Aribert Reimann’s Troades.
Höchste Lust!
Karita Mattila has just rather casually let slip that she has “signed in for [her] first Isolde.”
Broadcast: Hadrian
Twitter legend Karita Mattila, elegantly muumuu’d Thomas Hampson and Les Boys headline Rufus Wainwright‘s grandiose opera Hadrian.
Never mind the six feet
Yet another surprising new project for Karita Mattila: Leticia Van Allen in Myra Breckenridge.
Blonde Venus?
The frequently-omniscient Future Met Wiki has recently vouchsafed a few morsels about upcoming Met seasons.
Rock, star
The centerpiece of Janácek’s Jenufa was the performance of Karita Mattila as the murderous Kostelnicka.
Stone cold killer
This may be Karita Mattila’s greatest role.
Neue Urteufelin
La Cieca nominates Karita Mattila to sing Kundry (imagined here in a Stefan Herheim production of Parsifal, because, after all, one can dream!)
Il core vi dono
With February 14th falling on a Sunday, there will be no Valentine’s Day Met performance this year.
From the depths
I was greatly anticipating Karita Mattila’s recital on Friday in Toronto’s Koerner Hall.
Females on the beach
Karita Mattila is a gift to this planet.
there s a dance in the old dame yet
Karita Mattila (pictured) sings a little Verdi.
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).