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Release Date: Saturday 26 February 2005
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"Mattila's singing is spectacular"
- Robert Levine, ClassicsToday.com
Karita Mattila is one of today's most exciting lyric dramatic sopranos and the most successful Finnish soprano on the international scene today. She is recognised as much for the beauty and versatility of her lyric voice as for her extraordinary stage ability.
Winner of the Lappeenranta national singing competition in 1981, she studied at the Sibelius Academy as a pupil of Liisa Linko-Malmio and with Vera Rozsa in London. Since winning the Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 1983 she has appeared at the world's leading opera houses, in London, Paris, Vienna, Munich, Hamburg, New York, San Francisco, Washington and Chicago as well as at major Festivals of the world in repertoire which encompasses Mozart, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Puccini and Wagner.
Among her most recent great roles have been Salome in Richard Strauss' Salome, Katya in Janácek's Katya Kabanova, Elisabeth in Verdi's Don Carlos, Chrysothemis in Strauss' Elektra and Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin. She has also made a name for herself in operetta, as Hanna Glawari in a production of Lehar's The Merry Widow that took Paris by storm some seasons ago.
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. She has recorded several succesful discs for Ondine.
"Mattila's singing is spectacular"
- Robert Levine, ClassicsToday.com
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
1. Elisabeth: Dich teure Halle 3:16
Antonin Dvorák (1841-1904)
2. Rusalka: Song to the Moon, Rusalka 5:26
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
3. Aida: Ritorna vincitor 6:29
4. Leonora: Pace, pace mio Dio 5:18
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
5. Tosca: Vissi d'arte 2:56
Johann Strauss
6. Orlofsky: Ich lade gern mir Gäste ein 2:45
7. Adele: Mein Herr Marquis 3:15
8. Rosalinde: Klänge der Heimat 3:52
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
9. Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte (The Tryst) 2:57
Leevi Madetoja (1887 - 1947)
10. Luulit, ma katselin sua (You Thought I Was Watching You) 2:49
Oskar Merikanto (1868-1924)
11. Miksi laulan (Why I Sing) 1:15
Ralp Maria Siegel
12. Ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin (I still Have a Suitcase in Berlin) 3:48
Friedrich Holländer
13. Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss auf Liebe eingestellt (Falling In Love Again) 4:07
Jules Styne
14. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend 3:45
George Gershwin
15. Summertime (*) 2:34